Trending Board Games Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor scrapes the daily-updated trending/hotness list from BoardGameGeek (BGG). It fetches up to 50 popular games and outputs structured data, providing a programmatic way to track which board games are currently generating community buzz.

Key Features

• Fetches the latest trending board games from BoardGameGeek.
• Extracts key details for each game: ID, name, rank, publication year, and images.
• Outputs data in a consistent, structured JSON format.
• Requires no configuration or input to run.

How to Use

Run the actor on the Apify platform. No input is required—it will automatically fetch the current trending list. The results will be available in the actor's dataset upon completion.

Input/Output

Input: None required.

Output:
The actor outputs a dataset where each item is a JSON object representing a trending board game. The schema is as follows:

• position (number): Current position on the trending list.
• id (string): The unique BGG identifier for the game.
• name (string): Name of the board game.
• delta (number): Change in trending position compared to the previous day.
• href (string): Relative URL to the game's page on BGG.
• imageurl (string): URL of the game's primary thumbnail image.
• images (object): Contains URLs for different image sizes and resolutions (square30, square100, mediacard), each with src and src@2x (high-resolution) properties.
• rank (string): The game's current overall rank on BGG.
• yearpublished (string): The game's publication year.
• description (string): A brief description of the game.

Example Output Item:

{
  "position": 1,
  "id": "418059",
  "name": "SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence",
  "delta": 0,
  "href": "/boardgame/418059/seti-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence",
  "imageurl": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../pic8160466.jpg",
  "images": {
    "square30": {
      "src": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../30x30/.../pic8160466.jpg",
      "src@2x": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../60x60/.../pic8160466.jpg"
    },
    "square100": {
      "src": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../100x100/.../pic8160466.jpg",
      "src@2x": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../200x200/.../pic8160466.jpg"
    },
    "mediacard": {
      "src": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../288x162/.../pic8160466.jpg",
      "src@2x": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/.../576x324/.../pic8160466.jpg"
    }
  },
  "rank": "579",
  "yearpublished": "2024",
  "description": "Search for signs of alien life by launching probes and analyzing distant signals."
}