EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

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.

BuZz

@mitu Thanks. I have cherry-picked the commit and bumped stable version. Binaries are building now - but people can update from source if they want the changes right away.

MrJordaaany

@mitu Thanks man

and thanks @BuZz. When is it good to update from Binary? does it take a few hours to build before I am good to try this option?

@GreenHawk84 Yeah I see a few people saying the built in scrapper is no good in this thread. It's always worked perfectly fine for me though. It would be good if it was a bit more robust, but it's always handy for me as I only use it when I've added a new game. All my stuff has been scraped with other scraping tools, but when I add just one new game, the quickest way to get it's info is to just use the ES scraped. Rather than going to command line etc.

BuZz

@mrjordaaany binaries are now updated.