If you had a peek in my Now page, you may have seen I have a list of games categorized by state of play at the moment. This page is made thanks to a JSON Data File I generate by webscrapping my public How Long To Beat profile, and then use it to populate the HTML.

While I wanted to use an API to access HLTB data, I found a forum thread asking for the same, and found out there's no public API available at the moment. So as a temporary measure, I made a small Node script using Puppeteer to scrape the data I need and save it in my files from time to time.

It's fairly specific to my use case and it's not particularly performant or thought out, but if it can be of use to you, here you have it:

Download the script here.

This personal site is hosted in Neocities and built using 11ty. To simplify uploading my static files to Neocities, I wrote a very small shell script that I added to my package.json.

#! /bin/bash
rm -rf _site
npm run build
git add .
git commit -m "Updated: `date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`"
neocities push _site

A brief explanation of what this script does:

• Deletes the previous _site folder, where the static files live, to re-generate it.
• Runs npm run build, which is the same as npx @11ty/eleventy.
• Stages all changed files for git, and makes a commit with a message in the format "Updated: 2024-11-12 22:17:05"
• Uses Neocities CLI to upload the static files to Neocities.

It's very simple, but if anyone has a similar work pipeline I hope it helps.