EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

mitu

The server it's not down, but due to this change, it might have inadvertently been mis-configured.

DarishZone

Well, glad to find is not me however, i was going to check all my xml's

mitu

@darishzone said in EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working:

Well, glad to find is not me however, i was going to check all my xml's

The error was meant for the XML returned by the server, which is now obviously missing, and not about your gamelists.

DarishZone

Seems legit, thanks!

mongo64

@mitu thank you for the input, any recommendations for how to fix this issue? Or will there be an updating coming out soon for Retropie which will solve the problem.

mitu

@mongo64 Since the artwork site is not working, there's little RetroPie can do/change to fix it. Use the alternate scraper for now - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#steven-selphs-scraper.

DarishZone

Which is thousand times better than internal one. Basically every scraper are.

gokuh306

Neither scraper seems to be working for me. I guess if I have the time, I could just manually enter the metadata as I add new games. Vast majority have been scraped before the issue.

mitu

@gokuh306 If you use the alternate scraper, make sure you change the source of metadata/art from thegamesdb to screenscraper.

RedBatman

Any idea when it will work again?

mitu

It seems to work fine now, just make sure you have an up-to-date Emulationstation package.

MrJordaaany

@mitu The latest for me is 2.7.5. This correct?

Not working for me if so.

mitu

@mrjordaaany When did you last update it ?

MrJordaaany

@mitu Just now. Binary then restarted my Pi.

mitu

@mrjordaaany Hm, i'm running the dev version (on Windows), I'll try an update from source later to see if the stable version has the same problem. Thanks for testing.

MrJordaaany

@mitu I see, so the Raspberry Pi build may not be working yet. Thanks

mitu

@mrjordaaany No, I now see the change added a few months back is not in the stable branch.
@jdrassa, @pjft - do you think you could add thegamesdb redirection commit to the stable branch also ? They've completely replaced the /api endpoint with the new API and the stable branch still looks at the thegamesdb.net instead of legacy.thegamesdb.net.
I assumed it was a configuration error on their side since they did the move on the 3rd of July, but it seems it's fine.

GreenHawk84

@mongo64 you will find that the internal scraper is very basic and barely works. I do wish they would implement a scraper that lets you choose all sorts of artworks from all sorts of places with previews etc. Something that really allows full (and easy) customization of the setup. Something that comes with ES that has a nice UI to interact with.

pjft

@mitu Thanks. I don't have the rights to merge those to the stable branch, so either @jdrassa or @BuZz (sorry for pinging you here) would have to be the ones to come to the rescue :|

Daistaar

This may have been asked before (couldn't find it in the search) but is it in the pipeline to add additional sources to the ES Scraper? The fact that it has "thegamesdb.net" as a selection option gives the impression you could cycle to other sources such as Screenscraper or ArcadeItalia.