[SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture

hooperre · 22 Nov 2018, 15:51

Hello all. Is there any way to contribute roms/games to the screenscraper.fr site? I know there are millions of DOS games out there, but there is really no good way to scrape them at this point. Only DOOM works out of my collection. More work for ScummVM, but not all. Retropie uses a .svm file extension and on the site only .scummvm is listed.

Found the answer regarding auto-additions in the forum.

paffley · 30 Nov 2018, 12:53

does anybody know the settings for handbrake (windows) to resize the scraped videos from 640x480 to 320x240 please?

Mick2K · 30 Nov 2018, 20:31

@paffley look at one of the original videos with Mediainfo and then recreate the settings in handbrake and change only the resolution.
That's what u would do.

paffley · 1 Dec 2018, 00:45

Hi @Mick2K yeh ive tried that, the new snap ended up bigger in size for some reason. I'll have to take another look and have a play, I think i'm missing something in the settings but cant fatham out what it is just yet.

Mick2K · 1 Dec 2018, 20:46

@paffley i made a few tests and with the settings shown on the pictures you can reduce the size by almost 50%. The quality loss is visible but still okay in my eyes.

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paffley · 2 Dec 2018, 01:53

Thanks @Mick2K ill have a play with those settings, your a star thanks.

hansolo77 · 27 Dec 2018, 01:26

Has something changed with the scraper or site? I'm trying to scrape NeoGeo, it looks like it picked up all the correct art but the gamelist doesn't include any "Names".

Nevermind, looks like I fixed it. For some reason, the data in the fields for Language got erased, so it wasn't scraping the name and descriptions. All working now!

hansolo77 · 10 Feb 2019, 07:48

Back again! I don't think the scraper is working right when I'm scraping Dreamcast. I don't have a full set since the place I got mine from were in a mixed format (mostly cdi but some img, nrg, mdf, etc). Since the emulator can only read the cdi format of these, those are the ones I kept. Anyway, when I scrape the system, I get a lot of bad results. MANY games present the boxart of "Sonic Spinball". It even downloaded the videos for that game too. I thought maybe somebody had hacked the screenscraper.fr server, so I looked. Doesn't seem to be the case, as the few games I checked did have the correct box art available. Maybe it matched the wrong checksum? I'm not sure what happened. I'm about to go to bed and let it scrape overnight again. Just thought I'd post it here. Maybe somebody has seen this before or recently and knows whats up?

Example: https://ibb.co/KDcvgsd

mitu · 10 Feb 2019, 07:58

@hansolo77 I think there's something on the ScreenScraper side right now - a change in the API or something wonky on their search. I'm not sure UXS gets much activity lately, but one of its succesors is skraper.net. Try using Skraper and see if you get better results.

hansolo77 · 10 Feb 2019, 17:58

@mitu Thanks I'll give it a try. What's the worst that could happen?

Carnivore · 15 Feb 2019, 07:51

@hansolo77 I don't think the Universal XML Scraper makes it possible to scrape Dreamcast images. I don't see the Dreamcast in program's platform list.

hooperre · 17 Feb 2020, 01:17

@screech Sorry to res thread, but doesn't deserve it's own topic. Any reason why <Item Type="SystemWheel"> would no longer be scraping on arcade / MAME files?

aurunmilla · 7 Dec 2020, 14:15

Hi, cery strange issue..
I can't scrape anymore samsho4.
Every time i try to scrape it the program crash.
I scraped with mame, neo geo, but always the same result.
I'm on newer version of uxs..
This appen with only this rom, for now..

aurunmilla · 7 Dec 2020, 14:45

@screech

Hi, cery strange issue..
I can't scrape anymore samsho4.
Every time i try to scrape it the program crash.
I scraped with mame, neo geo, but always the same result.
I'm on newer version of uxs..
This appen with only this rom, for now..