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.
Hello. Hope you are doing good. Thank you for this awesome map, it helped me (and probably us) to seek for the space invaders in big cities.
I wanted to ask if it was possible to change the behavior for "already flashed" and "destroyed" ones, to make them apart, since we, in so cases, find some destroyed tiles re-enabled but it's too hard to focus on the scanned ones and the destroyed "re-activated" ones.
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 📝
Hello. Hope you are doing good. Thank you for this awesome map, it helped me (and probably us) to seek for the space invaders in big cities.
I wanted to ask if it was possible to change the behavior for "already flashed" and "destroyed" ones, to make them apart, since we, in so cases, find some destroyed tiles re-enabled but it's too hard to focus on the scanned ones and the destroyed "re-activated" ones.
Can this be possible ?
Thank you !
Thanks for the kind words 🙏. Done, I separated these settings. Good luck finding more space invaders!
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!
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Thank you for your help. When I use my uid on Map Invaders it gives me the following error: "Error fetching flashes"
Could you please help me?
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!