Add Rake task for importing covers from MobyGames #438
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This isn't quite perfect, but it works well enough that it's good to merge.
The problem is that the API doesn't expose a way to find a game by the URL fragment (e.g.
terraria,half-life-2-episode-one, etc.) so I have to search by the title of the game, which is pretty flaky ("The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" returns no games 🤔 ), and then use the URL fragment I have to match with the correct game, if it's returned by the API.Then it pulls down the cover image and attaches it to the game.
The API is pretty heavily rate limited, so we sleep for 10 seconds between every iteration in the loop. This helps make sure that we never get above 360 requests/hour. It'll take ~27 hours to get 10k games' covers.