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    EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @gokuh306
      last edited by

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

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      • RedBatmanR
        RedBatman
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        Any idea when it will work again?

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @RedBatman
          last edited by

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

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          • MrJordaaanyM
            MrJordaaany @mitu
            last edited by

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

            Not working for me if so.

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @MrJordaaany
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              @mrjordaaany When did you last update it ?

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              • MrJordaaanyM
                MrJordaaany @mitu
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                @mitu Just now. Binary then restarted my Pi.

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @MrJordaaany
                  last edited by 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.

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                  • MrJordaaanyM
                    MrJordaaany @mitu
                    last edited by

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

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @MrJordaaany
                      last edited by

                      @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.

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                      • GreenHawk84G
                        GreenHawk84 @mongo64
                        last edited by 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.

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                        • pjftP
                          pjft @mitu
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                          @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 :|

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                          • DaistaarD
                            Daistaar
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                            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.

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                            • BuZzB
                              BuZz administrators @mitu
                              last edited by 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.

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              • MrJordaaanyM
                                MrJordaaany @mitu
                                last edited by

                                @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.

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                                • BuZzB
                                  BuZz administrators @MrJordaaany
                                  last edited by

                                  @mrjordaaany binaries are now updated.

                                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  • MrJordaaanyM
                                    MrJordaaany @BuZz
                                    last edited by

                                    @buzz Love your work Buzz :)

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                                    • MrJordaaanyM
                                      MrJordaaany
                                      last edited by

                                      @BuZz @mitu Can confirm ES is updated to 2.7.6 and its working when scraping games. Thanks

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                                      • MrJordaaanyM
                                        MrJordaaany
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                                        It is working, but shit it's slow. Im getting time-outs 90% of the time. I am aware this is probably due to their site though and not ES...

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                                        • herb_fargusH
                                          herb_fargus administrators @MrJordaaany
                                          last edited by

                                          @mrjordaaany the new api has limits which will hopefully address the issues they had with excessive bandwidth on their servers

                                          If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                          Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                          • MrJordaaanyM
                                            MrJordaaany @herb_fargus
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                                            @herb_fargus Oh yeah? Sort of like a queue? So when theres too much traffic it just wont work for you?

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