Fill developer, publisher, year and description from Wikipedia

The library carried titles, systems and genres but almost nothing else:
developer was 3.8% filled, publisher 2.9%, description 0%. These are columns
the app has always had and never been able to populate.

enrich_metadata.py reads them off the same articles the cover fetcher
locates. Only empty fields are touched unless --overwrite is given.

  year         79%  -> 96%
  developer   3.8%  -> 95%
  publisher   2.9%  -> 96%
  description   0%  -> 96%

Parsing infoboxes needed several guards, each found by checking output
rather than trusting the first pass:

  * "Infobox video game" is a substring of "Infobox video game series", so
    the loose test resolved Banjo-Kazooie to the series overview. Now
    rejected, which also fixes the cover fetcher's article resolution.
  * An article spans every release and its date block leads with the
    original, so year is only filled when the article covers that platform.
    Otherwise a DS port inherits the SNES original's year.
  * A search hit that neither covers the platform nor closely matches the
    title is discarded: "Dragon Ball Z Budokai" surfaces "Shin Budokai", a
    different game on a different console. Left blank instead.
  * Values are grouped under bold platform headings, tagged with region
    codes, annotated with the platform in parentheses, and wrapped in
    templates whose named parameters leak through. Each of those read as
    the developer or publisher before being handled.

Developer, publisher and year are facts and written verbatim. Descriptions
are article summaries under CC BY-SA, stored with an attribution line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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*.swp *.swp
# Cached libretro directory listings (regenerated on demand) # Cached libretro directory listings (regenerated on demand)
tools/cover-art/.cache/ tools/library/.cache/
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### Cover art ### Cover art
`tools/cover-art/fetch_art.py` fills in box art, pushing each image through the `tools/library/fetch_art.py` fills in box art, pushing each image through the
app's own `POST /api/images` so it gets the same validation and WebP re-encoding app's own `POST /api/images` so it gets the same validation and WebP re-encoding
as a manual upload. Standard library only — no virtualenv, and neither source as a manual upload. Standard library only — no virtualenv, and neither source
needs an account. needs an account.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ It tries two sources in order:
one per second and cached; the API returns 429 if pushed harder. one per second and cached; the API returns 429 if pushed harder.
```bash ```bash
cd tools/cover-art cd tools/library
python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' --dry-run # report matches, change nothing python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' --dry-run # report matches, change nothing
python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' # download and attach python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' # download and attach
python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' --overwrite # also replace existing art python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' --overwrite # also replace existing art
@@ -123,6 +123,52 @@ Fix the system field and re-run with `--overwrite` to correct them.
Art is publisher copyright. Fetching it for a private collection is ordinary Art is publisher copyright. Fetching it for a private collection is ordinary
practice for library software; redistributing it is a different question. practice for library software; redistributing it is a different question.
### Metadata enrichment
`tools/library/enrich_metadata.py` fills developer, publisher, year and
description from the same Wikipedia articles the cover fetcher locates. Only
empty fields are touched unless `--overwrite` is passed — anything typed by hand
outranks anything derived here.
```bash
cd tools/library
python3 enrich_metadata.py --password '...' --dry-run
python3 enrich_metadata.py --password '...'
python3 enrich_metadata.py --password '...' --fields developer,publisher
```
Coverage went from this to this:
| Field | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| year | 79% | 96% |
| developer | 3.8% | 95% |
| publisher | 2.9% | 96% |
| description | 0% | 96% |
Developer, publisher and year are facts, written verbatim. Descriptions are
article summaries, which are CC BY-SA, so each is stored with an attribution
line naming the source article.
Parsing an infobox is messier than it looks, and the guards matter:
- **Series articles are rejected.** A substring test for `Infobox video game`
also matches `Infobox video game series`, which resolved Banjo-Kazooie to the
series overview instead of the 1998 game.
- **Year is only filled when the article covers that platform.** An article
spans every release, and its date block leads with the original — so a DS
port would otherwise be dated to the SNES original.
- **A search hit that neither covers the platform nor closely matches the title
is discarded.** Our "Dragon Ball Z Budokai" surfaces "Dragon Ball Z: Shin
Budokai", a different game on a different console. A blank field beats a
confidently wrong one.
- Platform headings (`'''PlayStation'''`), region codes (`JP`, `NA`), trailing
platform annotations (`Rare (N64)`) and named template parameters (`title=`)
are all stripped, since each one otherwise reads as the value itself.
Four games have no usable article: a typo'd title (`Brett Hull Hocky 95`),
`Dragon Ball Z Budokai`, and two niche releases.
### Database changes ### Database changes
```bash ```bash
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Fill in developer, publisher, year and description from Wikipedia.
The library's own data is thin in exactly these columns — the 2018 dump carried
titles, systems and genres, but almost no developer or publisher and no
descriptions at all. This reads the values off the same English Wikipedia
articles the cover fetcher already locates.
Developer, publisher and release year are facts and are written verbatim.
Descriptions come from the article summary, which is CC BY-SA text, so each one
is stored with an attribution line naming the source article.
Only empty fields are filled unless --overwrite is given: anything typed by hand
outranks anything guessed here.
python3 enrich_metadata.py --password '...' --dry-run
python3 enrich_metadata.py --password '...'
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import difflib
import json
import re
import sys
import urllib.parse
from pathlib import Path
# The cover fetcher already owns the throttled, cached Wikipedia client.
from fetch_art import (
WIKI_UA, api_json, http, is_game_article, normalise, wiki_api, wiki_article,
)
FIELDS = ("developer", "publisher", "year", "description")
# Infobox values for multi-platform games are frequently grouped under a bold
# platform heading ("'''PlayStation'''{{vgrelease|JP|Square|...}}") or annotated
# with the platform in parentheses ("Rare (N64)<br>Nintendo (DS)"). Both would
# otherwise be read as the developer or publisher itself.
PLATFORM_WORDS = (
"nes", "snes", "super nes", "super nintendo", "nintendo entertainment system",
"n64", "nintendo 64", "gamecube", "gc", "wii", "wii u", "switch",
"nintendo switch", "game boy", "game boy color", "game boy advance", "gb",
"gbc", "gba", "nintendo ds", "ds", "3ds", "nintendo 3ds",
"playstation", "ps1", "ps2", "ps3", "ps4", "ps5", "playstation 2",
"playstation 3", "playstation 4", "playstation 5", "psp",
"playstation portable", "playstation vita", "vita",
"xbox", "xbox 360", "xbox one", "xbox series x", "x360",
"windows", "win", "pc", "ms-dos", "dos", "mac", "macos", "osx", "linux",
"ios", "android", "arcade", "arc", "genesis", "mega drive", "md",
"dreamcast", "saturn", "amiga", "psx", "xbla", "wiiu", "ngc", "3do",
"steam", "microsoft windows",
)
# Whether an article covers the platform a row claims. Used to keep a port's
# entry from inheriting the original release's year.
PLATFORM_PATTERNS = {
"NES": r"Nintendo Entertainment System|\bNES\b",
"SNES": r"Super Nintendo|Super NES|\bSNES\b",
"N64": r"Nintendo 64",
"GB": r"Game Boy(?! Advance)", # plain Game Boy or Game Boy Color
"GBA": r"Game Boy Advance",
"DS": r"Nintendo DS",
"GC": r"GameCube",
"WII": r"\bWii\b(?! ?U)",
"PS1": r"PlayStation(?!\s*(?:2|3|4|5|Portable|Vita))",
"PS2": r"PlayStation 2",
"PSP": r"PlayStation Portable|\bPSP\b",
"360": r"Xbox 360",
}
# Release templates tag each entry with a region, so those codes sit between the
# heading and the value we actually want.
REGION_CODES = {
"jp", "na", "eu", "au", "ww", "uk", "us", "ca", "kr", "cn", "br", "ru", "in",
"sea", "int", "pal", "ntsc", "row", "as", "hk", "tw", "mx", "nz", "fr", "de",
"es", "it", "nl", "se", "no", "dk", "fi", "pt", "pl",
}
DATE_LIKE = re.compile(
r"^\s*(?:\d{1,2}\s+)?(?:January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|"
r"September|October|November|December)\b|^\s*\d{1,2}[/-]\d{1,2}[/-]\d{2,4}\s*$"
r"|^\s*(?:19|20)\d{2}\s*$",
re.I,
)
def is_platform_label(text: str) -> bool:
return text.strip().lower().strip(":;,") in PLATFORM_WORDS
def is_noise_entry(text: str) -> bool:
"""Region tags, dates and platform headings are scaffolding, not values."""
stripped = text.strip().lower().strip(":;,")
return (
not stripped
or stripped in REGION_CODES
or is_platform_label(stripped)
or bool(DATE_LIKE.match(text))
)
def article_covers_system(wikitext: str, system: str | None) -> bool:
"""True when the article's platform list mentions the row's system."""
if not system:
return False
pattern = PLATFORM_PATTERNS.get(system.upper())
if not pattern:
return False
platforms = infobox_field(wikitext, "platforms") or infobox_field(wikitext, "platform") or ""
return re.search(pattern, platforms, flags=re.I) is not None
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Article resolution
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def resolve_article(game: dict, cache_dir: Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""Find the article about this specific game.
Direct title guesses first, then a search. The search matters for titles
whose bare name is the series overview rather than a game — "Mortal Kombat"
and "SimCity" both are, with the games at "(1992 video game)" and
"(1989 video game)" — and for small punctuation differences, such as our
"Dragon Ball Z Budokai" against the catalogued "Dragon Ball Z: Budokai".
"""
title, year, system = game["title"], game.get("year"), game.get("system")
attempts = [title, f"{title} (video game)"]
if year:
attempts.append(f"{title} ({year} video game)")
for candidate in attempts:
found = wiki_article(candidate, cache_dir)
if found and is_game_article(found[1]):
return found
try:
results = wiki_api(list="search", srsearch=f"{title} video game", srlimit=5)
titles = [r["title"] for r in results.get("query", {}).get("search", [])]
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
return None
target = normalise(title)
scored: list[tuple[bool, float, tuple[str, str]]] = []
for candidate in titles:
found = wiki_article(candidate, cache_dir)
if not found or not is_game_article(found[1]):
continue
# Strip the disambiguator before comparing: "Mortal Kombat (1992 video
# game)" should read as "Mortal Kombat".
bare = re.sub(r"\s*\([^)]*\)\s*$", "", found[0])
similarity = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, target, normalise(bare)).ratio()
scored.append((article_covers_system(found[1], system), similarity, found))
if not scored:
return None
scored.sort(key=lambda s: (s[0], s[1]), reverse=True)
covers, similarity, article = scored[0]
# A search hit that neither covers the platform nor closely matches the name
# is more likely a sibling in the series than this game — our "Dragon Ball Z
# Budokai" surfaces "Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai", a different game on a
# different console. A blank field beats a confidently wrong one.
if not covers and similarity < 0.90:
return None
return article
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Wikitext cleaning
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def clean_value(value: str) -> str:
"""Reduce an infobox field to plain text.
Infobox values are wikitext, so a developer might arrive as
``[[Rare (company)|Rare]]`` or as a ``{{ubl|...}}`` list with references
attached. This unwraps the common forms and keeps the first entry.
"""
text = value
# Footnotes and comments carry nothing we want.
text = re.sub(r"<ref[^>]*/>", "", text)
text = re.sub(r"<ref.*?</ref>", "", text, flags=re.S | re.I)
text = re.sub(r"<!--.*?-->", "", text, flags=re.S)
# List and release templates carry the value we want as their arguments —
# {{vgrelease|JP|Square|NA|Square Electronic Arts}} holds the publisher —
# so keep the payload and drop only the wrapper.
text = re.sub(
r"\{\{\s*(?:ubl|unbulleted list|plainlist|flatlist|hlist|"
r"vgrelease|vgr|video game release|collapsible list|nobold|nowrap)\s*\|",
"|", text, flags=re.I)
# Anything still wrapped in braces is scaffolding for these fields.
text = re.sub(r"\{\{[^{}]*\}\}", "|", text)
text = text.replace("{{", "|").replace("}}", "|")
# [[Target|Label]] -> Label, [[Target]] -> Target
text = re.sub(r"\[\[([^\]|]+)\|([^\]]+)\]\]", r"\2", text)
text = re.sub(r"\[\[([^\]]+)\]\]", r"\1", text)
text = re.sub(r"<br\s*/?>", "|", text, flags=re.I)
text = re.sub(r"<[^>]+>", "", text)
text = text.replace("'''", "").replace("''", "")
# Take the first real entry of whatever list survived, skipping any leading
# platform heading that was grouping the list.
parts = [p.strip(" *\n\t") for p in re.split(r"[|\n]", text)]
parts = [re.sub(r"\s+", " ", p).strip(" ,;") for p in parts if p.strip(" *\n\t")]
# A named template parameter leaks through unwrapping as "title=Foo";
# keep the value, drop the key.
parts = [re.sub(r"^[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*\s*=\s*", "", p, flags=re.I) for p in parts]
parts = [p for p in parts if p]
first = next((p for p in parts if not is_noise_entry(p)), "")
# Drop a trailing platform annotation: "Rare (N64)" -> "Rare".
match = re.match(r"^(.*?)\s*\(([^()]*)\)$", first)
if match and is_platform_label(match.group(2)):
first = match.group(1).strip()
return first.strip(" ,;")
def infobox_field(wikitext: str, field: str) -> str | None:
"""Raw value of one infobox field, brace- and bracket-aware."""
match = re.search(rf"^\s*\|\s*{field}\s*=", wikitext, flags=re.M | re.I)
if not match:
return None
index = match.end()
depth_brace = depth_bracket = 0
out: list[str] = []
while index < len(wikitext):
two = wikitext[index:index + 2]
if two == "{{":
depth_brace += 1
elif two == "}}":
depth_brace -= 1
elif two == "[[":
depth_bracket += 1
elif two == "]]":
depth_bracket -= 1
char = wikitext[index]
# A pipe or newline-pipe at depth zero ends this field.
if depth_brace <= 0 and depth_bracket <= 0 and char == "|":
break
if depth_brace <= 0 and depth_bracket <= 0 and char == "\n" and \
re.match(r"\s*[|}]", wikitext[index:index + 3]):
break
out.append(char)
index += 1
return "".join(out).strip() or None
def extract_year(value: str) -> str | None:
"""First plausible release year in a {{Video game release}} block."""
years = re.findall(r"\b(19[5-9]\d|20[0-4]\d)\b", value)
return years[0] if years else None
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Summary
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def wiki_summary(page_title: str) -> str | None:
"""Short article summary via the REST endpoint, which is built for reuse."""
quoted = urllib.parse.quote(page_title.replace(" ", "_"), safe="")
raw = http(f"https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/{quoted}",
headers={"User-Agent": WIKI_UA})
extract = (json.loads(raw) or {}).get("extract")
if not extract:
return None
text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", extract).strip()
# CC BY-SA requires attribution, so it travels with the text.
return f"{text}\n\nSource: Wikipedia — {page_title}"
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Main
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument("--api", default="http://localhost:8080")
parser.add_argument("--user", default="ckoch")
parser.add_argument("--password", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument("--overwrite", action="store_true",
help="replace fields that already have a value")
parser.add_argument("--fields", default=",".join(FIELDS),
help=f"comma-separated subset of: {','.join(FIELDS)}")
parser.add_argument("--cache", default=str(Path(__file__).parent / ".cache"))
args = parser.parse_args()
wanted = [f.strip() for f in args.fields.split(",") if f.strip() in FIELDS]
if not wanted:
print("No valid fields requested.", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
base = args.api.rstrip("/")
cache_dir = Path(args.cache)
print("Signing in…")
auth = api_json(base, "/api/auth/login",
data={"userName": args.user, "password": args.password})
token = auth["token"]
print("Fetching library…")
games: list[dict] = []
page = 1
while True:
result = api_json(base, f"/api/games?page={page}&pageSize=100", token)
games.extend(result["items"])
if page >= result["totalPages"] or not result["items"]:
break
page += 1
print(f" {len(games)} games\n")
filled = {field: 0 for field in wanted}
touched = failed = 0
no_article: list[dict] = []
skipped_year: list[dict] = []
for game in sorted(games, key=lambda g: g["title"].lower()):
missing = [f for f in wanted if args.overwrite or not game.get(f)]
if not missing:
continue
try:
article = resolve_article(game, cache_dir)
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
print(f" ! {game['title'][:44]:46} lookup failed: {exc}")
article = None
if not article:
no_article.append(game)
continue
page_title, wikitext = article
updates: dict[str, str] = {}
for field in missing:
if field == "description":
try:
summary = wiki_summary(page_title)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
summary = None
if summary:
updates["description"] = summary
continue
if field == "year":
# An article covers every platform a game shipped on, and its
# release block leads with the original. Taking that year for a
# later port would date a DS re-release to the SNES original, so
# only fill it when the article actually covers this platform.
if not article_covers_system(wikitext, game.get("system")):
skipped_year.append(game)
continue
raw = infobox_field(wikitext, "released")
value = extract_year(raw) if raw else None
else:
raw = infobox_field(wikitext, field)
value = clean_value(raw) if raw else None
if value:
updates[field] = value
if not updates:
continue
summary_line = ", ".join(
f"{k}={v[:26]}…" if len(v) > 26 else f"{k}={v}"
for k, v in updates.items() if k != "description")
if "description" in updates:
summary_line = (summary_line + ", " if summary_line else "") + "description"
print(f" + {game['system'] or '-':4} {game['title'][:40]:42} {summary_line[:60]}")
for field in updates:
filled[field] += 1
touched += 1
if args.dry_run:
continue
payload = {k: game.get(k) for k in (
"title", "system", "genre", "year", "developer", "publisher",
"art", "description", "own", "dumped", "played", "finished")}
payload.update(updates)
try:
api_json(base, f"/api/games/{game['id']}", token, data=payload, method="PUT")
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
print(f" -> FAILED: {exc}")
failed += 1
touched -= 1
print("\n" + "=" * 72)
verb = "would update" if args.dry_run else "updated"
print(f"{verb}: {touched} games failed: {failed}")
for field in wanted:
print(f" {field:12} {filled[field]:3}")
if skipped_year:
print(f"\nYear left alone — the article does not cover this platform, so its "
f"release date belongs to a different version ({len(skipped_year)}):")
for game in skipped_year[:15]:
print(f" {game['system'] or '-':4} {game['title']}")
if no_article:
print(f"\nNo Wikipedia article found ({len(no_article)}):")
for game in no_article[:20]:
print(f" {game['system'] or '-':4} {game['title']}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3 #!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Fetch box art for the library and attach it to each game. """Fetch box art for the library and attach it to each game.
Art comes from libretro-thumbnails (https://thumbnails.libretro.com), a Two sources, tried in order, neither needing an account:
community archive of boxart named to the No-Intro / Redump conventions. It needs
no API key, but covers retro consoles only — Xbox 360 has no thumbnail set, so 1. libretro-thumbnails (https://thumbnails.libretro.com) — scanned retail
those titles are reported as unsupported rather than mismatched. boxes named to the No-Intro / Redump conventions. Best art where it has
any, but its coverage is the retro consoles.
2. English Wikipedia — a cover on essentially every notable game article,
which is what fills the Xbox 360 shelf.
Images are pushed through the app's own POST /api/images endpoint, so they get Images are pushed through the app's own POST /api/images endpoint, so they get
the same validation, WebP re-encoding and per-user filing as a manual upload. the same validation, WebP re-encoding and per-user filing as a manual upload.
@@ -33,7 +36,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
THUMBNAIL_HOST = "https://thumbnails.libretro.com" THUMBNAIL_HOST = "https://thumbnails.libretro.com"
# Our system codes to libretro's DAT-derived directory names. # Our system codes to libretro's DAT-derived directory names.
# Xbox 360 is deliberately absent: libretro-thumbnails has no set for it.
# Several directories may back one system code. Our "GB" covers both Game Boy # Several directories may back one system code. Our "GB" covers both Game Boy
# and Game Boy Color titles — Pokemon Trading Card Game, for instance, is only in # and Game Boy Color titles — Pokemon Trading Card Game, for instance, is only in
# the Color set — so both are searched and the better match wins. # the Color set — so both are searched and the better match wins.
@@ -230,6 +232,16 @@ def wiki_api(**params):
return json.loads(raw) return json.loads(raw)
def is_game_article(wikitext: str) -> bool:
"""True for an article about a single game.
A substring test for "Infobox video game" also matches "Infobox video game
series", which would resolve Banjo-Kazooie to the series overview rather
than the 1998 game — and give the wrong cover and the wrong summary.
"""
return re.search(r"\{\{\s*Infobox video game\b(?!\s*series)", wikitext, re.I) is not None
def wiki_article(title: str, cache_dir: Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None: def wiki_article(title: str, cache_dir: Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""(resolved title, wikitext) for a page, or None when it does not exist.""" """(resolved title, wikitext) for a page, or None when it does not exist."""
safe = re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9._ -]", "_", title)[:120] safe = re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9._ -]", "_", title)[:120]
@@ -265,7 +277,7 @@ def wiki_cover_url(game: dict, cache_dir: str | Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
article = None article = None
for candidate in attempts: for candidate in attempts:
found = wiki_article(candidate, cache_dir) found = wiki_article(candidate, cache_dir)
if found and "Infobox video game" in found[1]: if found and is_game_article(found[1]):
article = found article = found
break break