Pull a list of unique played games for X-Y time period, print game name, id, designers, and play count.

bgg_designers.py

from datetime import datetime
from boardgamegeek.api import BoardGameGeek

bgg = BoardGameGeek()

username = 'commadelimited'
start = '2013-01-01'
end = '2017-03-07'
mindate = datetime.strptime(start, '%Y-%m-%d')
maxdate = datetime.strptime(end, '%Y-%m-%d')

games = {}
designers = []

bgg = BoardGameGeek()
plays = bgg.plays(name=username, min_date=mindate, max_date=maxdate)

for play in plays:
    if play.game_name in games:
        plays = games[play.game_name].get('plays') + 1
        games[play.game_name].update(plays=plays)
    else:
        games[play.game_name] = {
            'game_id': play.game_id,
            'game_name': play.game_name,
            'plays': 1,
        }

for game in games:
    query = bgg.game(game_id=games[game].get('game_id'))
    games[game].update(designers=query.designers)
    print games[game]

Results look like this:

{'game_id': 186793, 'designers': ['James Hudson'], 'plays': 5, 'game_name': 'Barnyard Roundup'}
{'game_id': 43570, 'designers': ['Friedemann Friese'], 'plays': 5, 'game_name': 'Friday'}
{'game_id': 114031, 'designers': ['Friedemann Friese'], 'plays': 1, 'game_name': 'Copycat'}
{'game_id': 207796, 'designers': ['Daniel Newman'], 'plays': 2, 'game_name': 'Ahead in the Clouds'}
{'game_id': 203430, 'designers': ['Friedemann Friese'], 'plays': 1, 'game_name': 'Fuji Flush'}
{'game_id': 4568, 'designers': ['(Uncredited)'], 'plays': 7, 'game_name': 'Racko Plus'}