Jordan Eldredge

The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database

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This note was originally posted as a thread on Twitter which was discussed on Hacker News.

The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by a sqlite3 database containing 1.2gb of metadata about 86,000 Winamp skins. It's all exposed in this explorable GraphQL endpoint: https://api.webamp.org/graphql

The data includes:

  • Original filenames and md5 hashes of each skin

  • Names/metadata of all files compressed WITHIN the skins (file size, date, filename)

  • Text content of all text files found within the skins

  • URL/likes/retweets if the skin was share by @winampskins (or on Instagram)

  • Full metadata/info about each skin's @internetarchive page

  • Info about manual reviews (good to tweet? NSFW?)

  • URLs to download skin files or screenshots

  • Kinda fun data to comb though (if you're like me).

If anyone is interested in getting the raw DB to play with, or has ideas for extra stuff to expose in the graph, get in touch.

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