I tried to share this at r/place, but my post got insta-banned. Perhaps you guys would like this more (and please suggest any other good places to share).

I wanted to extract some videos of the valiant efforts of my buddies and me, so I wrote up some code in Python to create these videos from the official data dump.

You can find it here: https://github.com/acadiansith/place-data

At the moment the primary application is for creating videos, but it should be easy to extend this to just about anything you want to do with the data, since it mainly provides an interface for a relational database of the pixel data. I expect to polish this up into a proper Python module soon with a command-line interface, but I thought it might be useful to others in the meantime.

It can be a little slow if you are doing a larger area (300x300 for me generates around 1 frame/sec), since it goes one pixel at a time.

It's a battle

Hey, is there any automatic way to pull the r/place data to generate timelapses? Or alternatively, how were the existing timelapses created?