Help with SSelph Scraper

[herb_fargus]

read the documentation: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper

[Moco]

@herb_fargus

Ok cool, thanks alot. Now is it possible to download the images and transfer it to the pi? If so, where should I go?

[nc4080]

So i did the same thing from Moco's original post:
http://github.com/sselph/scraper/archive/master.zip

That worked and the download completed but then i continued follow the video keeping in mind that the zip file name has changed so i type in:
sudo unzip master.zip scraper -d /use/local/bin/
I get a message 'caution: filename not matched: scraper. So then I type in:
sudo unzip master.zip -d /use/local/bin/
This leaves out 'scraper' in the command line.

I then go to:
/RetroPie/roms/snes
When I am in there I try to run:
scraper -thumb_only
But I receive the message:
-bash: scraper: command not found

Can you let me know what I am doing wrong here? I'm not too familiar with the command line and I'm sure its something really simple.
Thanks in advance.

[BuZz]

read the link two posts above yours - there is no need to install it from source or run it manually.

[nc4080]

Thanks, I found that quitting emulation station takes you to the terminal. From there i entered:

cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

After doing that RetroPie_Setup will run (option 3) and was able to run sselph scraper (option 319). After doing a full scrape, I was getting errors. I notice that 'thegamesdb' is the default scraper. According to this thread that database is down (and has been for a few days) so I changed it to 'OpenVGDB'. I did a scrape for all systems and found some of my ROMS.

A question: Is 'thegamesdb' a larger, better resourced DB than 'OpenVGDB'?

[herb_fargus]

@nc4080 yes thegamesdb is a little more extensive but their hosting situation right now isnt the greatest which is why we included alternate databases for these times when thegamesdb is down.

[nc4080]

@herb_fargus OK, so at the moment is there only 'thegamesdb' and 'OpenVGDB' for the retropie project?

Are there other DB's or plans to add in other DB's in the future?

[herb_fargus]

No there are not any plans currently unless something better becomes available and someone is willing to code it in.

[nc4080]

@herb_fargus Is there any indication when 'thegamesdb' might be coming back online? Does it go down very often?

[Floob]

@nc4080
Hopefully they'll keep current updates posted here so you can see if it will work in the future:
https://twitter.com/thegamesdb?lang=en-gb

[herb_fargus]

@nc4080 read the wiki page.

[Moco]

Every time I type in Sudo I get something like sudo does not exist. What am I doing wrong?

[herb_fargus]

@Moco case sensitive

[SweetFish]

Are these hash not found errors because thegamedb is down?

2016/04/11 13:52:45 INFO: Checking for new hash.csv.
2016/04/11 13:52:45 INFO: hash.csv "5db5b721700b9c87ec273a7820f917ce" up to date.
2016/04/11 13:52:48 INFO: Starting: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Contra.nes
2016/04/11 13:52:48 INFO: Starting: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Popeye.nes
2016/04/11 13:52:48 INFO: Starting: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/RUSHNATK.NES
2016/04/11 13:52:48 INFO: Starting: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Super Mario Bros. 2.nes
2016/04/11 13:53:03 ERR: error processing /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Popeye.nes: hash not found
2016/04/11 13:53:03 INFO: Starting: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Super Mario Bros.nes
2016/04/11 13:53:03 ERR: error processing /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Contra.nes: hash not found