Has anyone tried scraping IGDB with Skyscraper recently? My api key is getting rejected

[brimby]

I'm trying to scrape igdb, but it keeps rejecting my api key. I'm pasting the key directly in (not trying to type it out). Here is my command line entry:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper --unattend --skipped -g /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/n64 -o /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_media/n64 -p n64 -s igdb -u MYPASTEDAPIKEY --videos --nobrackets

Does anything look wrong with that line? The error message is: "The key you provided with either the '-u [key]' command line option or the 'userCreds="[key]" variable to config.ini does not seem to work. Now quitting..."

I'm on version 2.9.5 of Skyscraper

Update: I just tried generating a new key, but that one didn't work either.

[Lolonois]

Same error over here. Skyscraper 2.9.5. With igdb API-Key.

Adding --verbosity 3 adds no extra details.

Just to make sure your API-key is right, try:

curl 'https://api-endpoint.igdb.com/games' -H 'user-key: <your_key_here>' --> should return an authentication failure AND

curl 'https://api-v3.igdb.com/games' -H 'user-key: <your_key_here>' --> should give you a JSON formatted array of ten records.

So the URL changed from api-endpoint.igdb.com to api-v3.igdb.com.

By the time I will file a PR at Github. In the meantime you can help yourself:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper depends
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper sources

Do edits in ~/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/skyscraper/src/igdb.cpp: The values of the variables baseUrl and searchUrlPre should reflect the new URL.

Then:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper get_opts
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper get_bins
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper build
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper install

Clean (optional):

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh skyscraper clean

Run Skyscraper again as in your original post. It should work then.

HTH