PS4-game-scraper

Chrome extension that grabs your playstation purchase list and formats it as json data. For use with importing into a games database like Playnite to search your games easily.

I wanted a list of all my Playstation games and couldn't find a way to do that so I wrote this crappy web scaper that pulls the info directly from my Sony account via a Chrome extension.

It puts the data into a text box as a json format string so you can cut and paste it as needed.

Example output:

  "games": [
    {
      "title": "Grand theft auto 5",
      "Size": "90.75GB",
      "PurchaseDate": "7/3/2023",
      "Platforms": [
        "PS4"
      ],
      "productID": "UP0177-CUSA13186_00-JUDGMENTRYUGAENG"
    },
    {
      "title": "Fortnite",
      "Size": "28.64GB",
      "PurchaseDate": "7/3/2023",
      "Platforms": [
        "PS4"
      ],
      "productID": "UP1001-CUSA01401_00-BORDERLANDSHDCOL"
    }, ... and so on

How to use it in

• clone the repo or use the Download zip option and unzip the directory ( PS4-game-scraper-main ) somewhere.
• Enter chrome://extensions into your chrome URL bar
• Enable Developer mode option in the top right
• Click "Load unpacked" in the top left, and choose the PS4-game-scraper-main directory.
• You should now see the extension installed. Click on its little PS and follow the instructions it gives

Security warning: After using it, go back to chrome://extensions and remove it, and disable developer mode. Normally you should never install an extension like this for security reasons, but I assume you would here because you know me or have looked at the source code!

Todo

I probably won't work much on this anymore but here are some issues/problems with it for anybody who wanted to use it as a starting point: UPDATE going to keep working on this when i have some extra time

• It asks for too many privileges, it should only need Sony's website. I tried doing that, but it then no longer gives the "This is the wrong website" warning when you use it on the wrong webpage with how I currently do it
• Instead of using alert() to show progress it should have a nice status window while working
• It's very likely to break given the methods it uses to parse data, web scraping in general sucks, but I don't know another way to get this info
• Should also be gathering data from online trophies, this method could detect more games that you own. Current method doesn't know about games you've played via real disc