Any good scraper than can download 2dboxart+screenshot+video+marquee
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I'm trying to get the following elements from screenscraper : 2d box art, screenshot, video, marquee.
So far I tried Universal XML Scraper and Steven selph's scraper, both failed.
Universal XML Scraper :
- I chose "2d box art" as default image and "screenshot" as alternative image, but 95% of the downloaded images are screenshots not 2d box art, I manually checked screenscraper.fr and all my games have 2d box art on the website but this scraper download the screenshots instead for whatever reason.
- Marquees are never downloaded
Steven selph's scraper :
- Marquees are downloaded only for megadrive, my other systems (snes, gb, gbc, gba ....) have no marquees for whatever reasons, altought they are also available on the website.
- It skipped my whole psx collection, well known issue with this scraper
So, am I stuck to manually merging all this mess together and downloading the missing medias manually ?
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@a12c4 Try Skraper (Skraper.net).
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I suggest you try UXMLS again.
The program is very good when it works, I have scraped many different systems and a ton of roms, all with screenshots, video previews, marquees and boxarts.I have had weird issues with it though, but try uninstalling and reinstalling it, this have solved some issues for me. Also, the server is frequently down, so give it another chance, it really is a powerful tool.
Have you checked in the downloaded_images folder that the artwork is there? It could very well also be EmulationStation and gamelist.xml files that's causing you problems.
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Very nice, thanks ! Only at game 10 / 268 but working good so far !
Skraper.net is a beast, I already love it.
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I recently tried Skyscraper https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper , It does a re-cursive search through multiple sources to get all the data when running in simple mode. It also has a lot of advanced options if you like to tweak things. There's a thread on it here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11826/versatile-c-game-scraper-skyscraper.
There's some youtube videos showing off some of the features. Just search on Skyscraper Retropie. -
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@mitu Actually I'm not sure it worked as expected.
I asked it to download : image + mix + screenmarquee + screenshot + steamgrid + videos, to test different kind of image with the grid view.
But in my gamelist.xml I only have image + marquee + video, isn't it supposed to add extra tags for the others ?
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@a12c4 I think that it chooses, depending on the front-end, which tags are supported it only adds the ones it knows they're ok. I've only used it for the image (mix) and marquee.
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