Scraping no longer working due to old api

BuZz

@skhull2 Glad it's working. I did very little btw. @mitu did the work. :-)

(Edit) accidentally tagged muldjord first time as I got confused with skyscraper. Which @mitu integrated into retropie-setup also (an excellent scraper written by @muldjord)

ByteThis

@BuZz Thanks for deciding on a different internal scraper source. Skyscraper is great but misses a few titles and this one fills the blanks. And also @mitu for your hard work ! Works fantastic ! Is this the beta or final version ?

BuZz

@ByteThis there's another patch coming to put gamesdb back in also. Not from me - just to clarify I'm not the one doing the work in this case. I will push out a new stable Emulation Station soon. Thanks!

ByteThis

@BuZz Is all good ! So are we going to acquire ScreenScraper as well as TheGamesDB for internal scrapers ? Teamwork man. You guys are great.

BuZz

@ByteThis that's the plan :-)

naddel81

great job! what do I have to do to make the internal scraper work again? just update retropie?

mediamogul

@BuZz said in Scraping no longer working due to old api:

I will push out a new stable Emulation Station soon.

Would it be possible to graduate @pjft's fix for scraping directories without crashing in the next stable release? I'm about to hit the open highway for part of a move and may not see the response for a while, but I just thought I'd put it out there. Thanks to all involved on keeping the internal ES scrapers operational. They really come in handy on occasion.

BuZz

@mediamogul I'm planning to resync stable with the dev branch so it should include that.

naddel81

Please tell us when you are ready so we can update our pi devices. Thanks.

ColBojank

@ByteThis

Skyscraper can pull from different sources. I use both thegamesdb and screenscraper.

It has a bit of learning curve if you really want to get it all right, but it's great once you figure it out.

mitu

@ColBojank This topic is about the Emulationstation's internal scraper, not Skyscraper or Steven Selph's scraper.

ByteThis

@ColBojank I have been using Skyscraper but there are some titles that are missing at times. As I mentioned, the internal scraper helps to fill in the missing blanks.

naddel81

internal scraper is on its way to old glory! not quite there, yet.

A Bored Ninja

Very much looking forward to the fix! Skyscraper has been great, but it hates a handful of my PSX titles. It'll be great to fill in the gaps.

naddel81

@A-Bored-Ninja same here! can't wait! :)

naddel81

sorry to be the one, but has it been updated, yet?

quicksilver

@naddel81 "a watched pot never boils" seems to apply here. You'll just have to be patient.

quicksilver

Looks like the internal scraper is functional again. Although using screenscraper as a source only returns the same result no matter which game I'm scraping. Also after updating emulationstation all of my scraped images disappeared. Had to change games list view style from automatic to detailed to get them to appear again.

mitu

@quicksilver Yes, the dev branch made it to stable, so now there's 2 internal scrapers.

EDIT: can you give me some examples of Roms that are not scraping correctly with SS (name/system) ?

quicksilver

@mitu if I scrape any game in my arcade folder it returns "landstalker" for Sega Genesis.

If I scrape any game for atari2600 I get "the revenge of shinobi" for Sega Genesis

Scraping any game for neogeo returns "landstalker"

Scraping any game for NES returns "alien storm" for Genesis.

It may be like this for every system but these were the ones I tested