[Computer-go] Scraping lower-ranked games from kgs

[Petri Pitkanen]

Yes scraping for large amounts of data from  a smallish server is not
really polite. May overload the server. Besides quite inefficient. You
could make a request to owner of site instead. Assuming you can present
good enough reason  you might get lucky

2015-11-13 8:39 GMT+02:00 Josef Moudrik <j.moudrik at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I have a simple script for downloading info (gamelist, list of oponents,
> games) one by one here:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/gostyle.git/blob/HEAD:/kgs/kgs.py
>
> If you want to download more players, you need to search through opponents
> of players you know. But do not spam the kgs server too much please :-)
>
> Regards,
> Josef
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:35 PM Arthur Cater <arthur.cater at ucd.ie> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I would be interested for research purposes in getting lots of game sgfs
>> of
>> lower-ranked players, to contrast with the high dan and pro games that
>> get put into collections. Even kyu games. I was thinking of getting them
>> from kgs archives.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone already has a script that could (or could be easily
>> adapted to) do this? And would they share?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Arthur
>>
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