Eric wanted the library on his blog; the spec always called games.json
"the seed for a future web frontend." The new export stage renders it
as self-contained static pages — an index with search, one page per
game with facts, chips, the owner's edition and the description — that
drop into any static host (Hugo's static/ folder included). No server,
no build step, no external requests from the published pages.
Public pages carry obligations a localhost app doesn't. Cover art is
downloaded once from BGG's CDN instead of hotlinked (0.3s between
fetches — a guest, not a crawler; part-file writes so a failure never
leaves a truncated image; re-runs skip what exists, so the export is
idempotent and resumable like every stage). The footer shows a
Powered-by-BGG badge per BGG's public-app policy — text by default,
upgraded to the official logo when the owner saves it from their
registered-application page as data/powered-by-bgg.png — plus the
trademark attribution. And one privacy rule, tested: shelf photos are
never exported; they picture the inside of the owner's home. Covers
and hand-added local art only, per Eric's explicit choice.
Slugs are deterministic and collision-stable (two editions of one game
get -2 suffixes in sorted-key order) so re-exports keep every URL.
Descriptions un-double-encode BGG's entities. First real run: 136
pages, 254 covers, 64MB, live on the blog's static directory.
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