Magic Data

[Arch]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2771470/mtg-dat ... -05-13.zip

Bug caused all planeswalker 0/X cost abilities to be like that. Fixed.

[Marek14]

-X abilities don't have brackets.

[Arch]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2771470/mtg-dat ... -05-14.zip

Fixed.

[proud]

I have posted JSON data for all Magic cards (except for the Un-sets).

Let me know if you spot any errors.

Warning: These are large files. (cards.json is over 5 MB.)

Direct link: All playable cards.
Direct link: Planes, Schemes and Vanguard cards.

Verse project:
https://github%Ecom/ancestral/Verse

(Because the forums do not like me posting URLs, the %2E is actually a percent-encoded character for a dot. These links should work for everyone, except in Firefox you’ll need to click in the address bar and press return. Moderators: Can you help with this?)

[Huggybaby]

Don't worry, most of us can figure out whether you added a space or something else to post a link. Anyway, link-posting restrictions are lifted after you've posted five times.

[MageKing17]

I have posted JSON data for all Magic cards (except for the Un-sets).

Let me know if you spot any errors.

Warning: These are large files. (cards.json is over 5 MB.)

Direct link: All playable cards.
Direct link: Planes, Schemes and Vanguard cards.

Verse project:
https://github%Ecom/ancestral/Verse

(Because the forums do not like me posting URLs, the %2E is actually a percent-encoded character for a dot. These links should work for everyone, except in Firefox you’ll need to click in the address bar and press return. Moderators: Can you help with this?)

Looks interesting, however... "Verse is a grammar used for parsing rules and validating MTG cards." Clearly it just parses and validates an Oracle spoiler at the moment, no? If you ever do figure out parsing rules text (and not just a small subset, like my hackish solution does), I would be very keen to see the results...

[randian]

I like the JSON list, except for the fact that there's no delimiter between the set name and rarity. Makes extracting those a pain.

Any plans for a JSON version of the metainfo?

[melvin]

@proud: Thanks for posting the JSON data. Somehow I manage to miss your Verse project while doing research on a rules parser based on Parsing Expression Grammar. Do you have a PEG grammar for parsing rules text?

I also worked on a rules parser based on PEG in the hope of making it easier to add cards to Magarena. The current version of the grammar is available at https://code.google.com/p/magarena/sour ... ar/mtg.peg This is written for the Mouse, a Java PEG parser generator, http://mousepeg.sourceforge.net/

The grammar is able to parse 9941/21682 ~ 46% of all rules text in the game, where one line of rules text is one "<rule>...</rule>" block in Arch's cards.xml

[proud]

I like the JSON list, except for the fact that there’s no delimiter between the set name and rarity. Makes extracting those a pain.

Any plans for a JSON version of the metainfo?

Agreed, it would be nice to have them separated. Certainly doable. Perhaps I'll need to make a list of objects with set and rarity keys (as some sets have cards as a different rarity).
EDIT: Done. Files have been updated accordingly.

@proud: Thanks for posting the JSON data. Somehow I manage to miss your Verse project while doing research on a rules parser based on Parsing Expression Grammar. Do you have a PEG grammar for parsing rules text?

I also worked on a rules parser based on PEG in the hope of making it easier to add cards to Magarena. The current version of the grammar is available at <url> This is written for the Mouse, a Java PEG parser generator, <url>

The grammar is able to parse 9941/21682 ~ 46% of all rules text in the game, where one line of rules text is one "<rule>...</rule>" block in Arch's cards.xml

That’s fantastic! I missed your project as well! I will certainly have to see what you’ve got.


Verse is still a work in progress. (So don’t hold your breath!) I just wanted to share the JSON files for now, but yes, rules parsing is next, and what I want to do is return objects with saved variables about the cards. We’ll see, but thanks for the support.

[Marek14]

There's an entry for Beast token from a duel deck.

[Arch]

This problem existed for all tokens with simple names. Fixed for next release.

[friarsol]

Hey Arch, looks like M14 is up on Gatherer a few hours early.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Searc ... nced&set=|[%22Magic%202014%20Core%20Set%22]

[skibulk]

Does anybody have old database text from Gatherer? It seems that some older sets have oracle text under their "Display: Printed" tab, which is a fallacy. I wonder if the real text could be salvaged from an old database... If somebody posts an archive of versioned extracts (i.e. per set or year extracted), I can parse out the original text if it is present.

[Marek14]

Breaking//Entering has wrong mana cost.

[Arch]

Hey Arch, looks like M14 is up on Gatherer a few hours early.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Searc ... nced&set=|[%22Magic%202014%20Core%20Set%22]

Some stuff is breaking (double, special cards) and I don't have time to look at it right now. Should have something up this weekend though.

Does anybody have old database text from Gatherer? It seems that some older sets have oracle text under their "Display: Printed" tab, which is a fallacy. I wonder if the real text could be salvaged from an old database... If somebody posts an archive of versioned extracts (i.e. per set or year extracted), I can parse out the original text if it is present.

Earliest I have is http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2771470/mtg-data-2013-03-10.zip

Breaking//Entering has wrong mana cost.

I'll fix it.