HowTo Scrape Achievement List to CSV for Rescore and Revision Updates

This is a fast and easy method to scrape all Achievements, Descriptions or other useful information from RetroAchievements into a CSV format which can be posted in Forums and Discord for sharing Rescore and Revision Update plans.

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1. Download the Chrome Extension from https://simplescraper.io
2. Browse to the Game Page you want to Scrape the Achievement List from (example: https://retroachievements.org/game/11256)
3. Click on 'Launch Simple Scraper' and choose 'Scrape this website'
4. Choose 'Add a property'
5. Now you can select what information you want to scrape, click on the Achievements
6. The number of selected items must match the number of Achievements on the Site

(!) you can change the scraping content manually in the appearing box below 'propertyName1'.

For Rescoring Updates - scrape Achievements only

• div.achievemententry div.achievementdata a
• .achievementdata a

For Revision Updates - scrape Achievements and Descriptions

• div.achievemententry div.achievementdata
• .achievementdata

7. Click on the checkmark to confirm the selection and choose 'View Results'
8. A new tab should open, now click on CSV to download the Achievement List
9. Upload the downloaded CSV file to Google Drive and open it with Google Sheets

(!) Scraped Achievements with Descriptions can be seperated by splitting the columns with '\n'.

Upload and split into columns in Google Sheets

10. In Google Sheets, select A (must be marked) and choose 'Data' then 'Split text to columns', 'custom' and insert \n.

Please check Achievement-Set-Revisions for more information regards Recore and Revision Updates.