I turned a game's official Nuxt payload into a 130-species dataset and a 1,221-pair co-habitation matrix
Planet Zoo 2 unlocks globally on 2026-10-13. I wanted a reference site that answers the questions the game itself does not answer before launch: which animals ship, what they need, and which of them can actually share an enclosure. There is no public API for that, so I built one dataset out of the publisher's own pages. This is a write-up of the extraction, the normalisation, and the one derived table that I think is actually interesting — the co-habitation matrix. The official Zoopedia pages r…