Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper

muldjord

@AlCzervik Well, at least that leads us to conclude that this is not an issue with the login. It is a general problem on your machine. Can you scrape any games with -s thegamesdb --refresh? Or does that also not work?

AlCzervik

@muldjord I used Skyscraper along with ArcadeDB and it worked like a charm. Just tried it again and it worked great (and fast!!)

muldjord

@AlCzervik Also when adding --refresh? Otherwise it will just read it from the cache instead of connecting to the service.

AlCzervik

@muldjord Yep. Just tried it with refresh. One thing to note, I've been running this via the RetroPie_setup.sh menu, not the command line. Should I try the command line too?

muldjord

@AlCzervik Well, it shouldn't make a difference. Although from command-line it would be easier to ensure it does exactly what we want it to do. But frankly, I don't think it will change anything.

AlCzervik

@muldjord What directory do I run it from?

muldjord

@AlCzervik Just run sudo ln -s /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper /usr/local/bin/Skyscraper. Then you can run it with simply Skyscraper -p genesis -s screenscraper --refresh

AlCzervik

@muldjord OK now it’s getting weird, I ran that command and I still can’t run skyscraper from the command line. When I run the command again it says that it failed to create a symbolic link because the file exists

muldjord

@AlCzervik That's because it did create it, but it's broken (the link, not Skyscraper)... That's weird. I was positive that was the location it was installed at.

muldjord

@AlCzervik Can you do ll /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper?

AlCzervik

@muldjord Command not found. I cd folder by folder and there it is but I still can’t run the command line from that folder

muldjord

@AlCzervik Then please make sure you didn't misspell anything in the ln command. It should absolutely work if it's linked to /usr/local/bin/Skyscraper correctly.

EDIT: So you see the link in /usr/local/bin? And it's not red?

EDIT2: Try ls -lh /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper. That will tell you if the file exists where I think retropie installed it.

AlCzervik

@muldjord No, what I'm saying is I navigated directly to /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/ and I still couldn't run Skyscraper from within that directory. Sorry, just seeing your other edits.

muldjord

@AlCzervik Ah, that's normal. If you want to run a local file you have to to ./Skyscraper -p genesis -s screenscraper --refresh when within the folder. The . means "this folder". Otherwise it will try and run it from either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

mitu

@AlCzervik Since the /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper is not in your $PATH, you can either running by calling the full path

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper

or, if you changed directory to the installation folder:

cd /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/
./Skyscraper

Note that Linux commands are case-sensitive, so skyscraper is not the same as Skyscraper.

muldjord

@mitu Yeah, but the ln command should work, which apparently it didn't.

mitu

@muldjord Not quite:

When I run the command again it says that it failed to create a symbolic link because the file exists

The link was created, I bet the casing is wrong.

muldjord

@mitu Could be yeah

AlCzervik

@muldjord Okay, sorry. Very rusty at command line. Shame on me. I ran 'nes' command line from the installation folder, it ran, but found nothing for every one of my nes games. Tried it again for Genesis, nothing found.

muldjord

@AlCzervik Nothing found, or "Retrying request..."?