Feature Request/Community Tool: Highly Accurate Python Script for Auto-Categorization (Epic, GOG, Amazon)

[kiodo1981]

Problem description

The current process for assigning categories (genres) to games in Heroic Launcher is manual and time-consuming, especially for users with large, multi-store libraries (Epic, GOG, Amazon).

Heroic lacks a reliable, automated feature to fetch genres from external databases (like Steam, RAWG, etc.) and apply them automatically to the config.json file, forcing users to categorize hundreds of titles individually.

Feature description

Solution: Python Script for Automated Genre Tagging

This script resolves the manual categorization issue by:

1. High-Accuracy Lookup: Fetches genres from Steam, RAWG, Wikipedia, and uses aggressive DuckDuckGo (DDG) logic as a robust fallback.
2. Full Library Support: Automatically applies categories to Epic, GOG, and Amazon titles in config.json.
3. Result: Demonstrated a 100% success rate on a library of 1000+ titles, including localized games.
4. Proposal: Integrate this logic directly into Heroic Launcher to offer a native "Auto-Categorize" function.

Tool Genre Heroic.py

Tool Genre Heroic.py

Alternatives

No response

Additional information

Solution: Python Script for Automated Genre Tagging

This script resolves the manual categorization issue by:

1. High-Accuracy Lookup: Fetches genres from Steam, RAWG, Wikipedia, and uses aggressive DuckDuckGo (DDG) logic as a robust fallback.
2. Full Library Support: Automatically applies categories to Epic, GOG, and Amazon titles in config.json.
3. Result: Demonstrated a 100% success rate on a library of 1000+ titles, including localized games.
4. Proposal: Integrate this logic directly into Heroic Launcher to offer a native "Auto-Categorize" function.

[T0nd0Tara]

Maybe a better option would be not to run a script "manually", but rather let heroic to automatically fetch that data via the ways you listed

That way it can be totally automatic, and will add new games to the categories straight away

The reasons I think you should not automatically let Heroic run the script comes down to 2 things:

1. It is written in python, in order to not create a process, and to keep the source code with as little extra languages as it can. I believe it should be just a typescript function
2. It shouldn't really be saved in the "customCategories" in the config, this is more of a cache type of data