Dead by Daylight - Database (JSON Scraper)

Fetches new information from the Dead by Daylight - Wiki and outputs to local JSON files.

_{Originally built with ❤︎ by Techial and contributors}

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⚠️ Merged into chaoticshuffle

The scraper scripts from this directory have been moved into the chaoticshuffle Worker project at chaoticshuffle/scripts/.
All future work on the scraper should happen there.

New location: d:\Cloudflare\chaoticshuffle\scripts\
New docs: chaoticshuffle/scripts/README.md

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New Workflow (from chaoticshuffle/)

# Install deps
pnpm install

# Install Puppeteer's Chrome binary (first time only)
npx puppeteer browsers install chrome

# Scrape wiki + generate SQL seed in one step
pnpm scrape

This produces data/ JSON files and database_seed.sql in the chaoticshuffle/ root.

Apply seed to D1

# Local dev
wrangler d1 execute chaoticshuffle-db --local --file=./database_seed.sql

# Production
wrangler d1 execute chaoticshuffle-db --remote --file=./database_seed.sql

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Legacy Reference

The original standalone workflow (before the merge) used to be:

# (in DBD-Database/)
pnpm install
node update.js        # → data/*.json
node generate_seed.js # → database_seed.sql

This folder is retained for historical reference only.

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Data Structure

Perks (killer_perks.json, survivor_perks.json):

{
  "perks": [{
    "URIName": "URL safe string (name of perk)",
    "name": "Perk display name (With space and all characters)",
    "iconURL": "Perk icon URL",
    "content": "Display text (with HTML elements) scraped from the wiki",
    "contentText": "Same as `content` without HTML elements",
    "characterName": "Name of Character perk belongs to (Omitted if general perk)",
    "character": "URIName of Character perk belongs to (Omitted if general perk)"
  }]
}

Survivors (survivors.json):

{
  "survivors": [{
    "name": "Character display name (With space and all characters)",
    "URIName": "URL safe string (name of survivor)",
    "iconURL": "Character image URL",
    "link": "Character URL at https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/"
  }]
}

Killers (killers.json):

{
  "killers": [{
    "name": "Full Character name (With space and all characters)",
    "killerName": "Short name used in-game (e.g Trapper, Wraith etc)",
    "URIName": "URL safe string (name of Killer)",
    "iconURL": "Character image URL",
    "link": "Character URL at https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/"
  }]
}