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Open Data


Every published record in the archive is available as structured JSON, free to reuse. Use it for research, visualizations, apps, or your own collection tools.

What is included

  • product.json, company.json, profile.json, review.json, competition.json, catalog.json, article.json, story.json, media.json: one file per record type.
  • taxonomies.json: materials, play styles, and categories.
  • manifest.json: release version, generation date, record counts, and a SHA-256 checksum for each file.
  • changelog.json: records added, removed, and changed in each release.

Only published records are exported. Email addresses are removed. Relations between records (a product’s company, a review’s product) are expressed as references to record IDs and URLs.

License and credit

The data is released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit “The Yoyo Archive” with a link to yoyoarchive.org, and share derived datasets under the same license. Third-party images and trademarks belong to their owners and are not covered by this license.

Get the data

Download the latest release from the Yoyo Archive Open Dataset on GitHub. To verify a download, compare each file’s SHA-256 hash with manifest.json.

Corrections

Spotted an error? Records change as the archive grows, and each release lists what changed. Open an issue on the GitHub repository with the record URL and the correction.