Before 2025, I mostly ignored any opportunities for tech skills certifications. Sometimes it just requires too much efforts on preparation, and at the same time, the value of it is rather controversial. Google Analytics certification definitely can be named as one of the most common meme across digital analytics community – the existence of it can say anything about the person, but not about his or her competencies.
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Need to mention one more fact about myself – I really like computer games. I cannot say that I have enough time to spend with this hobby, but I still continue monitoring this industry and also intact with major platforms responsible for video games distribution.
And one more fact about me – sometimes I like to investigate if any such platform has an option somehow to extract data, either by API or by other more or less legal methods.
Today I decided to pay attention to GOG.com, one of the most noticeable PC gaming-related video games platform, focused on video games preservation and indie gaming support. In this article I will try to show how to extract data from GOG (basic stats about video games on platform and reviews data), and to discuss on how it can be used.
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