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https://github.com/astrofra/emucamp-engine
A scripted toolchain to automatically update a database of listed emulators, including each binary of each version.
https://github.com/astrofra/emucamp-engine
catalog emulation python website
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A scripted toolchain to automatically update a database of listed emulators, including each binary of each version.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/astrofra/emucamp-engine
- Owner: astrofra
- License: mit
- Created: 2013-12-10T13:29:44.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-07-06T12:21:21.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-02T10:55:54.522Z (24 days ago)
- Topics: catalog, emulation, python, website
- Language: Python
- Homepage: http://emucamp.com/
- Size: 3.27 MB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
emucamp-engine
==============
A scripted toolchain to automatically update a database of listed emulators, including each binary of each version.
The project is divided in two parts :
1. The Engine
2. The website
The whole engine is open-sourced in order to avoid the complete oblivion in case the maintainer is not able to work anymore on the project.
1. The Engine
=============
The Engine is a set of Python scripts able to crawl on a given list of sources, fetch any updated data, and download the data that changed since the last run. The sources are described using simple text files with a very basic syntax.
Once the run is done, the result is a tree of folders, containing each version of each emulator, sorted by original machines (C64, CPC, Amiga, Atari...)
Each machine (or emulator) shows a description in English language, extracted from Wikipedia.
The extract can be automated using the Wikipedia API.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
Each emulator can be downloaded using one or several urls.
The binaries could be either :
- directly linked to the original emulator's site
- downloaded from the site and hosted on emucamp.net
- found by the visitors by following an external link to the original emulator's website
1.a Setup
---------
You need python and pip.
Get python on http://www.python.org/
Get pip on http://www.pip-installer.org/
Once you have python and pip installed, you can run:
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
It will install the python modules required by the project.
1.b Run
-------
To update the website, run:
```bash
python python/main.py
```
To update the meta ratings, run:
```bash
python python/meta_ratings.py
```
Under Windows you can run the provided bat scripts:
```bash
start.bat
```
and
```bash
start_meta_ratings.bat
```
2. The website
===============
The website is a static site (pure HTML, no PHP, no SQL). Everything is built on the local machine that runs the engine, and then uploaded to a given location.
The files are a mix or html, css, png and binary files.
