View source for FFXIV Wiki:Desynth data automation

{{Project
| status = In progress
| members = Erin Umbreon
| discord = https://discord.com/channels/312060255469305856/1422712491774972027
| Display crowd-sourced desynth data from [https://gacha.infi.ovh gacha.infi.ovh] on item pages
}}

[https://gacha.infi.ovh gacha.infi.ovh] collects lots of data about random results in XIV, including desynth data. The raw data lives in [https://github.com/Infiziert90/FFXIVGachaSpreadsheet/blob/master/website/static/data/Desynthesis.json a JSON file in their Github repo] and is hosted at <code>https://gacha.infi.ovh/data/Desynthesis.json</code>

Two tasks that can be handled independently:

# {{yes}} Write a Lua module/template that can be used on item pages to render the raw data for a specific item in a nice format.
# {{yes}} Write a long-running bot that will periodically upload the latest <code>Desynthesis.json</code> to the wiki so the data stays up-to-date.
#* This is more complicated than it initially seemed because <code>Desynthesis.json</code> is a very large file and Mediawiki is not happy with it. I'm gonna have to break it up into multiple <code>Module:Desynthesis/Results/XX000.json</code> files on the wiki in order to make it all fit, so the update bot will have to know how to do that. [[User:Erin Umbreon|Erin Umbreon]] ([[User talk:Erin Umbreon|talk]]) 20:43, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
#* {{yes}} The script for doing this now exists! Just need to get it set up on my server. [[User:Erin Umbreon|Erin Umbreon]] ([[User talk:Erin Umbreon|talk]]) 21:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
#* I cleaned this up further to use the same folder/filename structure as infi uses in the github repo - this simplifies the scripted updates quite a bit. <span class="nowrap">[[User:Erin Umbreon|Erin Umbreon]] <small>(she/it &bull; [[User talk:Erin Umbreon|talk]])</small></span> 01:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Now that those two tasks are done, we have the fun part: backfilling {{tl|desynthesis results}} into all the old item pages.

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Everything is basically done, just some cleanup left to do:
* Clean up [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Desynthesis%2FSources&namespace=828 old desynth data source pages] now that I've switched the subpage names to match infi's
* Set bot up on my server
* Backfill to other pages (consult with other item page editors about this)
<span class="nowrap">[[User:Erin Umbreon|Erin Umbreon]] <small>(she/it &bull; [[User talk:Erin Umbreon|talk]])</small></span> 01:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

==Data reconciliation tasks==
* {{todo}} Add functionality to the template to allow rendering manually reported results
** These need to be visually distinct from the data-backed results so it's obvious which results have been verified via the Tracky plugin and which haven't
* {{todo}} Render some sort of note/warning when table is generated from a small sample size (less than 100ish desynths)
* {{todo}} Add parameters for rendering headers ("==Used for==" and "===Desynthesis===") only if there are results in the table, so we can backfill the table template onto all item pages from the datamining/page creation scripts
[[User:Erin Umbreon|Erin Umbreon]] <small>(she/it &bull; [[User talk:Erin Umbreon|talk]])</small> 15:29, 31 March 2026 (UTC)