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    Built in scrapper hit or miss?

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      tackett1980 @quicksilver
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      @quicksilver

      Well, that sucked

      I installed skyscraper and it doesn’t work. It just gives me a red error message something about “non-registered users” and just goes back to the setup screen.

      What gives?

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        quicksilver @tackett1980
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        @tackett1980 sign up for a free account on screenscrapers website. Then edit the skyscraper config.ini and add your new login info. When the screenscraper website is overloaded it will deny requests from unregistered users.

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          tackett1980 @quicksilver
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          @quicksilver

          Is that screenscraper.fr?

          Never mind I got it. Thanks.
          Now to figure out how to get skyscraper to actually take my authentication.

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            quicksilver @tackett1980
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            @tackett1980 go to the skyscraper config.ini and add

            [screenscraper]
            userCreds="user:password"
            

            When you start scraping from screenscraper you should notice text pop up that you are logged in under your user name

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              tackett1980 @quicksilver
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              @quicksilver

              Thanks sir. I got it figured out thanks to you.

              Unfortunately, though it seemed like it was working and it ran all day long scraping without any errors, I don’t see where it actually did anything.

              My games are still blank, there are no videos downloaded that I can see.

              Just like most of the things with retropie.... I can say, “what did I screw up this time?”

              Btw I used the etaprime tutorial video on YouTube to do this.

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                quicksilver @tackett1980
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                @tackett1980 did you generate your gameslist after you scraped?

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                  tackett1980 @quicksilver
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                  Yeah and when I do it’s saying “game xxxx not found”

                  And it’s not like they obscure games.

                  One line says “game ‘pacman’ not found. I find that difficult to understand.

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                    tackett1980
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                    I think it has something to do with my sub folder setup.

                    When I scraped my NES roms directory it did every single one no issue.

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                      GreenHawk84
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                      I was actually able to scrape with the internal scraper last night via Screenscraper. I was beyond happy at that moment.

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                        tackett1980 @GreenHawk84
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                        @GreenHawk84

                        Actually it didn’t work.

                        It downloaded some descriptions but not videos.

                        I wonder if I’m out of space.

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                          mitu Global Moderator @tackett1980
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                          @tackett1980 said in Built in scrapper hit or miss?:

                          It downloaded some descriptions but not videos.

                          The built-in scraper doesn't download videos, only artwork and information (description, genre, title, rating, publisher, etc.)

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                            tackett1980 @mitu
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                            @mitu

                            I was referring to skyscraper. Sorry for the confusion.

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                              quicksilver @tackett1980
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                              @tackett1980 it doesn't download videos by default, did you turn the option on to download videos?

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                                tackett1980 @quicksilver
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                                @quicksilver

                                Yeah I did it seems like it only downloaded a few videos from my arcade folder up to about “P” and stopped.

                                I need to back up and punt here I think...

                                I need to get all these roms organized before I start worrying about scraping them .

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                                  nightbirdmedia @tackett1980
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                                  @tackett1980 said in Built in scrapper hit or miss?:

                                  It's not you. I just ran it myself and it did nothing, In fact it actually removed some of my artwork I had previously for games. lol

                                  None of the scrapers have been working for me for a week now. I even tried to add manual artwork to my games but that wasn't working like it should have either.

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                                    tackett1980 @nightbirdmedia
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                                    @nightbirdmedia

                                    Yeah I’m starting to get the feeling that this screenscraper database source is just spotty.

                                    I ran skyscraper again last night and it looks like it just randomly decided which ones it wanted to do and which ones it didn’t.

                                    Then I tried to run the internal scraper and now it’s not working again either. Everything just says no games found.

                                    I’m going to start looking for a windows scraper that might use a more reliable database.

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                                      quicksilver @tackett1980
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                                      @tackett1980 are you using a login when scraping from screenscraper?

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                                        tackett1980 @quicksilver
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                                        @quicksilver

                                        Yes I made an account a while back and it’s in the skyscraper config.

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