A warning for Content Scrapers
On the topic of content scraping
After a site log investigation it was discovered that some people have taken the liberty to scrape most, if not all, of the website's content.
DS-Info is being actively developed, and it has been for several months now. It's a collection of information thats a product of a lot of independent labor with no support or a clear way forward which includes:
Game data extraction
Parsing that data to make it human readable
Importing into the wiki
Designing and implementing every feature to make it available
managing and keeping track of all data and textures
the server infrastructure
the project itself
and everything in between
Several hundreds of hours, and at this point, euros have been spent to create DS-Info as it is so it's available for everyone, for free. As it stands now, the whole project is being funded entirely out of pocket.
Scraping the content is against the site's terms of use and will not be tolerated. I've started working on implementing active counter-measures and repercussions for scraping the data, and this kind of behaviour will not be tolerated.
Q: What if I'd like to use the DS-info data for another project?
A: I am always happy to hear about interesting projects and seeing how DS-info can help it. And all you have to do is to reach out directly (via Discord, Reddit, or even X) and discuss it with me. This way I can design custom interfaces that allow you access to what you need in a way that doesn't bog down the server because it's trying to render an HTML page that makes dozens of database calls in the background to a bot.
Author note: I also find the behaviour morally reprehinsible. All these years the game is out, anyone could've done what I've done as all the tools I use in the process have been available for years.
Waiting for someone else to do all the heavily lifting to steal and benefit from their work to cobble together an AI first project posted on github sites is not something to be proud of.
And on a personal level, to have money to spend on AI to steal someone's work and then not even donating a cent to the project is an even bigger L.