DUNGEON WORLD CODEX
Hello!
I have a question for those familiar with the web page. Is there a way to browse efficiently on the site? A complete list or something similar?
The monster entries are nice and the layout is very good but I find navigation very painful and the search engine seems lacking.
AFAIK your best bet is to webscrap the 100 or so pages (a couple thousand entries) and then transform the html into your database format of choice. XSLT or similar.
You could also try using google search, but filtering for the site. Say I wanted to find something with clockwork in it. I would enter in the google search bar “site:codex.dungeon-world.com clockwork (not in quotes) that give me search results for clockwork defender, clockwork gentleman, etc. You can find more filtering tricks below.
lifehack.org – 20 Tips To Use Google Search Efficiently
I’m not sure how well, or how often Google indexes a dynamic website though…
Looks like there are currently 4955 entries.
http://codex.dungeon-world.com/monster/all?skip=4950
That’s a fair number of pages to scrape 🙂
It’s what programs are for 😀
Alternatively you can try to woo the webmaster into exposing the database somehow. OAI or similar
Thanks guys for the tips! 👍