Thanks a lot for the article and your sharing effort. I am also trying to build a complete database of the Space Invaders in the world. Your database helped me a lot. I also looked at Invader-spotter.org to get the current status. And finally, I completed with some manuals inputs for the last SI, including the last invasion of Biarritz (BAB). I shared all this in this repo https://github.com/goguelnikov/SpaceInvaders so everybody can access it. Do you agree with this sharing as many of the data come from your site? I was actually surprised how difficult it is to find a centralized accessible Invader DB… feel free to used it for the last SI (in Paris, BAB…) Thanks
Amazing insight into how you made this a possibility. Now the next step is to make the map interactive so you can mark off the ones you have personally flashes so you don't go around in circles.
Hi ! Here's a wonderful free tileMap that I use for my own 'Invaders' website (that I use to search invaders with friends..) : "https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/{z}/{x}/{y}.png". You should consider using it, I found the streets clearer
Hi Aubel, sure! The program emulates the requests a browser would make when visiting the website, and parses the responses. You can use Chrome Web Tools to inspect the requests made when browsing the site. I then asked ChatGPT how to make similar requests from a Python program :), you can do similarly if you want to.
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Thanks a lot for the article and your sharing effort. I am also trying to build a complete database of the Space Invaders in the world. Your database helped me a lot. I also looked at Invader-spotter.org to get the current status. And finally, I completed with some manuals inputs for the last SI, including the last invasion of Biarritz (BAB). I shared all this in this repo https://github.com/goguelnikov/SpaceInvaders so everybody can access it. Do you agree with this sharing as many of the data come from your site? I was actually surprised how difficult it is to find a centralized accessible Invader DB… feel free to used it for the last SI (in Paris, BAB…) Thanks
Great work 👏 ! Thank you for setting this up and for sharing a link :).
Amazing insight into how you made this a possibility. Now the next step is to make the map interactive so you can mark off the ones you have personally flashes so you don't go around in circles.
Thank you :)! Feature request well noted 📝
Hi ! Here's a wonderful free tileMap that I use for my own 'Invaders' website (that I use to search invaders with friends..) : "https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/{z}/{x}/{y}.png". You should consider using it, I found the streets clearer
Nice! Thank you for the pointer :)
Thanks for the details! Really cool post.
I looked at the space oddity site and it doesn't go further than PA_1499.
How did you get the location of the last ones?
Good old manual geolocating :), using the Instagram pictures people post and Google Maps
Amazing work. How did you scrape the invader-spotter website?
Looking at the requests that the web browser makes when you browse the site yourself (using Chrome Dev Tools) and then emulating them in code :).
I missed Ravenna, have you a map from it with Space invaders places?
Yes, you can find it at https://pnote.eu/projects/invaders/ . Happy hunting!
Thx for sharing Przemek! Can you please share more details about the helper program to retrieve the Invaders’ status out of invader-spotter?
Hi Aubel, sure! The program emulates the requests a browser would make when visiting the website, and parses the responses. You can use Chrome Web Tools to inspect the requests made when browsing the site. I then asked ChatGPT how to make similar requests from a Python program :), you can do similarly if you want to.
Thx for your answer Przemek. I’ll try that and may be request some nudge from your part if I miserably fail to create such a similar helper!