{"id":39085,"date":"2026-02-19T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/how-do-mtgtop8-tcdecks-and-other-actually-get-their-decklists-noob-here\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:28","slug":"how-do-mtgtop8-tcdecks-and-other-actually-get-their-decklists-noob-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/how-do-mtgtop8-tcdecks-and-other-actually-get-their-decklists-noob-here\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do MTGTop8 \/ Tcdecks And Other Actually Get Their Decklists? (noob Here)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hello guys,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking into building a small tournament\/decklist aggregator (just a personal project, something easy looking), and I\u2019m curious about the data sourcing behind the big sites like MTGTop8 or Tcdeck, Mtgdecks, Mtggoldfish and others.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt these sites are manually updated by people typing in lists 24\/7. So, can you help me to understand how them works?:<\/p>\n<p>Where do these sites &#8220;pull&#8221; their lists from? Is there a an API for tournament results (besides the official MTGO ones), or is it 100% web scraping?<\/p>\n<p>Does a public archive\/database of historical decklists (from years ago) exist, or is everyone just sitting on their own proprietary?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a standard way\/format to programmatically receive updated decklists from smaller organizers?<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has experience with MTG data engineering or knows of any open-source scrapers\/repos any help is really appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>thank you guys<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Dariospinett\"> \/u\/Dariospinett <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r913om\/how_do_mtgtop8_tcdecks_and_other_actually_get\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r913om\/how_do_mtgtop8_tcdecks_and_other_actually_get\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39085 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39085' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39085 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39085 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello guys, I\u2019m looking into building a small tournament\/decklist aggregator (just a personal project, something easy looking),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}