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    Built in scrapper hit or miss?

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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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                  • nightbirdmediaN
                    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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