DATParser

The DATParser parses .dat files (either from Redump or No-Intro) to pull out useful information about ROM files.

For Redump, ROMSearch can automatically download the latest .dat file from their site. This is not possible for No-Intro, so users will have to download this file manually.

For more details on the DATParser arguments, see the config file documentation.

API

class romsearch.DATParser(platform=None, use_subchannels=False, config_file=None, config=None, platform_config=None, logger=None, log_line_sep='=', log_line_length=100)

Parser for dat files from Redump or No-Intro

For Redump dats, we can download directly from the site. Users will have to provide their own files for No-Intro, since there’s no good way to scrape them automatically

Parameters:

• platform (str, optional) – Platform name. Defaults to None, which will throw a ValueError

• use_subchannels (bool, optional) – Whether to get dats for subchannels. Defaults to False.

• config_file (str, optional) – Configuration file. Defaults to None

• config (dict, optional) – Configuration dictionary. Defaults to None

• platform_config (dict, optional) – Platform configuration dictionary. Defaults to None

• logger (logging.Logger, optional) – Logger instance. Defaults to None

• log_line_length (int, optional) – Line length of log. Defaults to 100

download_latest_redump_dat(subchannel=None)

Download Redump zip file for the platform

Parameters:

subchannel – Specific subchannel. Defaults to None, which will use the main dat

get_zip_file(subchannel=None)

Get zip file from the dat directory

If this is a Redump file, we can download the latest directly from the site. Otherwise, you will need to download them manually

Parameters:

subchannel – Specific subchannel. Defaults to None, which will use the main dat

run()

run_datparser()

The main meat of running the dat parser

save_rom_dict(rom_dict)

Save the dat file parsed as a dictionary to JSON