Scrape Gatherer to build a local database of card information.
This project is a personal project. If you want card and image data, I suggest mtgjson.com and mtgimages.com. The data sets at those website are more inclusive than this one.
./frantic cards.json
This will create a JSON file with all metadata for all Magic: The Gathering cards. It should take about 5 minutes.
Here is a sample card structure. A card's unique ID is generated by computing the MD5 of concatenating the name and mana cost of the card.
{
"id": "bf52be96ef89803d43bc8df52ecece62",
"name": "Bestial Menace",
"mana_cost": "{3}{G}{G}",
"converted_cost": 5,
"rules_text": [
"Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield."
],
"types": [
"sorcery"
]
"editions": [
{
"artist": "Andrew Robinson",
"flavor_text": [
"\"My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours.\"",
"\u2014Saidah, Joraga hunter"
],
"multiverse_id": 197843,
"number": "97",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"set": "Worldwake"
},
{
"artist": "Andrew Robinson",
"flavor_text": [
"\"My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours.\"",
"\u2014Saidah, Joraga hunter"
],
"multiverse_id": 247535,
"number": "144",
"rarity": "uncommon",
"set": "Magic: The Gathering-Commander"
}
]
}go test -v
Card names and text are all copyright Wizards of the Coast.
This website is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast in any way.
I am providing the JSON files under the public domain license.