EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

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.

MrJordaaany

@buzz Love your work Buzz :)

MrJordaaany

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

MrJordaaany

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...

herb_fargus

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

MrJordaaany

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

herb_fargus

@mrjordaaany last I checked the limit was 1000

gizmobjb

I just updated and still not working. Also the alternate scraper is not working

mitu

@gizmobjb What version on Emulationstation do you have after the update ?

edmaul69

@gizmobjb did you update retropie setup first?

gizmobjb

I did a full update one retropie then updated emulationstation from source. The built in scraper get the metadata info now but I get the disc full error even though I have 30+ gigs free.
The alternative scraper appears to work and says rom scrapped but when I go back in to emulationstation that are not scrapped.
Stupid question I tried to find what version I am on but can't find it

mitu

@gizmobjb Press Start while in Emulationstation and the menu will pop-up, the version is at the bottom of the menu.
If you're havin problems with disk full, then the ES scraper might not be able to save your information. What is the exact error and when do you get it ? Exit Emulationstation with F4 (or choose to exit ES from the menu) and then type df -h. Get the output and paste it here to see how much of your disk is available/free.

gizmobjb

The error comes after I select the game from the scraper it says error saving resized image. Out of memory? Disk full?
ES is on version 2.7.6RP

mitu

@gizmobjb It looks like you have plenty of disk space available, so that's not the cause of the problem. Open a separate topic and provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, this is another problem.

gizmobjb

Sorry

Pi Model 3b
Power Supply used: offical power supply
RetroPie Version: 4.4.2
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: mouse and keyboard
Controller used: ps4

gizmobjb

I am still not sure why the alternative scraper is not working either

mitu

@gizmobjb The alternative scraper should work, provided you change it's source from thegamesdb to screenscraper. What error are you getting when running it ?