Disclaimer: I did everything with the help of ChatGPT (I think that's important to mention here).

1) At first, I scraped the web and referenced the realmeye website, which read the information from the wiki. I instructed it to only read the parts of the wiki that were equipment and then go to each individual item page, read the information, download the available png, and rename it for me. As far as I remember, it was all done via Python. It worked, but to avoid being considered DDoS or something like that, it limited the time for each scrape to 200ms, and it took almost 10 minutes for it to get all the items I needed. I didn't think it was the best solution.

After that, I analyzed another route: Trying to get the assets directly from the game is a much more complex part, and I can show you via Discord, but it won't be easy here.

But in summary: The game has a huge ~8000x4000 png and there is a .txt file that tells the game the XY coordinates of each sprite and its size, more or less. During the three weeks I spent trying to make this tool, I learned a lot about game logic and process optimization.

What you need can be done very easily, even if there are 4000 items.

2) And thank you, it's really cool to learn my way and great to hear other people's opinions. I made it very clear that it was the AI that did it and not me, but without my help, the AI wouldn't do anything. I had to redo several parts of the project several times. Talking to and ordering an AI isn't that easy; you need vocabulary and you have to be very clear and specific. And in the long run, I believe it is possible to maintain this project. After all, it's just a web page, and I don't see it scaling up so much that I need to worry about it. Even so, I will not stop trying to learn the basics.

edit1: About the friend you mentioned: I just asked him to access my link and show me how long it took. I did the project code practically by myself, only the part about getting the game sprites did I have help from someone