Scraper help

IceChes1

What about Skyscraper/Selph Scraper? Anyone know what to do for those?

Clyde

@IceChes1 What do you mean by "to do for those"? If screenscraper.fr has problems, all scrapers are affected. Apart from that, their usage is explained in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/.

If you have problems or explicit questions about them after reading those instructions, ask away, but please be more specific.

nightbirdmedia

@Clyde I think he means how to get them to work. They kept asking me to register when I attempted to use them. But how do you register for them? I tried to register at https://www.screenscraper.fr but it wouldn't send me a confirmation email.

nick1984

I scraped all my systems, for covers and video samples and I fount in many systems that most of ROMS appears 2 3 or 4 times in the ROM lists. They were not copied (I checked with Filezilla) but I see more than one in the game list.

Pi Model or other hardware: raspberry pi 3 b+
RetroPie Version Used: 4.1

AlienUA

You can install skyscraper and register on http://screenscraper.fr/
Then add your creds into
sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/skyscraper/config.ini

in end fo file add
[screenscraper]
userCreds="user:pass"

use skyscraper, it works for me.

saccublenda

Is it possible to use screenscraper.fr credentials in the Emulationstation's internal scraper?

mitu

@saccublenda said in Scraper help:

Is it possible to use screenscraper.fr credentials in the Emulationstation's internal scraper?

No, that's not supported.

AlienUA

@saccublenda Sorry, I didn't check this.

Clyde

@nightbirdmedia You don't have to register at screenscraper.fr, but they'll close the access for non-registered users if their servers are under heavy load – like at the moment, as I just checked. You can see their server status on their website.

More access will be granted to monthly paying subscribers. A mere 1€ per month will get you access even if the access for registered (non-paying) users is closed, as well as 50.000 scrapes per day instead of only 20.000.

See their website for this and more information.

nightbirdmedia

@Clyde thanks.