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    • muldjordM
      muldjord @thestarglider
      last edited by muldjord

      @thestarglider No, that's just because you need to escape filenames with spaces. That is a global thing, not just that command. You can do "Filename with space.pgp" or Filename\ with\ space.pgp. Both will work. But thanks, I'll look into them. I'm asking because I want to rule out that this is a Skyscraper issue.

      EDIT: Ok, so I checked those two, and my suspicion was correct. The checksums don't exist in their database, so it relies on the filenames entirely. And it does poorly at that which causes the issue of the faulty results. I would have to do further local tests to rule them out. I might do that in a future release.

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      • muldjordM
        muldjord @thestarglider
        last edited by muldjord

        @thestarglider Great news!!! Please update Skyscraper to 3.4.5 and try the Tomb Raider games again. I just had a chat with the ScreenScraper guys and it seems this was in fact an issue, and it has now been fixed in their code (as I suspected it was not a Skyscraper issue, but please update to 3.4.5 anyway)! Scraping Tomb Raider (USA).pbp will now result in the correct game. It should also work for all other games now, unless the filename is not in their database of course. Let me know if you test this out. I've tested it myself and it seems to work. :)

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          dman
          last edited by

          Is screen scraper down? I tried to scrape a few and its not working for me. I scraped a month back and it was fine.

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            gokuh306
            last edited by

            the website seems to be completely down at the moment

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            • muldjordM
              muldjord @dman
              last edited by

              @dman Yes, their API is entirely down atm.

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                gokuh306
                last edited by

                Website is working, so API might also be working now.

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                  gokuh306
                  last edited by

                  API is working and enabled for non registered users. The built-in scraper should also work now.

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                    gokuh306
                    last edited by

                    It does appear that a lot of filename and CRC data is missing, for now. I have a lot of games that scraped fine before not being found.

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                      dman
                      last edited by

                      still not working for me but it may be something else

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                      • thestargliderT
                        thestarglider @muldjord
                        last edited by

                        @muldjord success! I updated and scraped and all the culprits were found correctly (two weren't but they always were tricky ones to scrape so not an issue).

                        Many thanks for the heads up!

                        Starglider!!! From Rainbird!!!

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