Hi ! I'm a French Sociology student andI wish to write a Masters' thesis on speedrunning. I'd like to compare speedrunning and eSport (as competitions on games like CS:GO, LoL or SFV) as two different forms of competitive gaming. To do this, I'd like to know if I could have access, at least partially, to the database of this website. This would allow me to write about the history of speedrun, to identify specific games that could be interesting for a case study and to make it easier to compare both speedrunning and esport.

Could anyone tell me who to contact or where I can find more informations?

Thanks !

Your best bet is to use the public API to have access to the data. You can find more information here : https://github.com/speedruncomorg/api

Not really any quickly accessible data but Summoning Salt started a very well researched series on youtube on the history of speedrunning world records: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMxPYcr2zEkWInMyvvxmN22gjrRR0xu

Alright, thanks ! I'll try go with that ! I'd like to reach someone to get some kind of "official" access to the database though.

what's not official about the API?

I don't know, I guess I meant something like a file sent from the admin.

In my opinion there's a low chance you'll get anything like that, unless it's cleared from sensible user data. You'd better start using the API like everyone does.

No problem and thanks very much for the link ! I'll try to understand how that works.