EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 01:24

@mitu The EmulationStation built in scraper. Or do you have to build the experimental release from source. Will this new version be included in 4.5?

mitu · 31 May 2019, 02:37

@MrJordaaany If you use the built in scraper is should have a functional TGDB scraper. Did you scrape from TheGamesDB or from ScreenScraper ? Scraping from ScreenScraper only works on the -dev branch, due to a change on their site.

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 02:51

It wasn't working for me so I installed the experimental one from source. If I do a fresh 4.4 install, it should be ok now you reckon? Or still need to update EmulationStation under core packages?

Cheeeers

mitu · 31 May 2019, 02:52

@MrJordaaany What's the exact Emulationstation version you see when you look at the ES menu (Start) ?

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 02:55

@mitu v2.7.6. I could be wrong though, im not at home so can't check right now.

mitu · 31 May 2019, 02:58

@MrJordaaany This is not the latest version of Emulationstation. If you're using the 4.3 or older image (based on Raspbian Jessie) and you're not using the 4.4 image, then you're not going to get the latest version.

MrJordaaany · 31 May 2019, 03:00

Yeah probably not going to update my own Retropie setup, I know emulator updates will break my setup.

However when setting up new units for mates or whatever, the built in EmulationStation scraper should be good right off the bat on 4.4?

mitu · 31 May 2019, 04:03

@MrJordaaany said in EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working:

However when setting up new units for mates or whatever, the built in EmulationStation scraper should be good right off the bat on 4.4?

If you start with the 4.4 image you'll get the same 2.7.6RP version, you need to do at least an update after a fresh 4.4 image for the packages included.

AssPunchMan · 2 Jun 2019, 10:51

Hi

I have a similar problem with version 2.8.3RP.

Yesterday it stopped working and you can not find any more games. There is no way to make it work again?

It tells me ScraperHttpRequest error .. SSL conection fail or something similar.

Pi 3B+ all updated to latest version -with downgrade of kernel for fix bluethod controllers bug-.

Thx

mitu · 2 Jun 2019, 15:27

@AssPunchMan said in EmulationStation Scraper NOT Working:

Yesterday it stopped working and you can not find any more games. There is no way to make it work again?

What scraper source are you using ? TheGameDB or ScreenScraper ? TheGamesDB should work, for the latter you need to wait until the fix for the SSL issues (caused by changes to the site) are added in the stable branch.

As this topic has become an old dumpster bin for all issues regarding scraping (whatever they are), I'll be locking this down - it's not providing any useful solutions for anyone looking at it right now and the error that started the issue is long gone.