[SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture

[UDb23]

@hansolo77 said in [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture:

How do I manually download the images hosted at screenscraper.fr?

It's a little bit tricky but can be done.
take this page as an example. Take note of the horizontal size of the fan art (1920) and then right click on the Fan Art image and select "open image in another tab". You will get here..
Now edit the URL by replacing the "maxwidth=" in the URL with the actual width you noted (and delete trailing"'&maxheight=190" as not needed).
Press enter and you get the full res image.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@screech

Also getting some error with the latest version.

AutoIt Error
Line 26288 (File "C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Raspberry\Universal XML Scraper\Universal_XML_Scraper64.exe"):
Error: Subscript used on non-accessible variable.

Also when I set the image size to 960x540 it gets completely ignored and it gives me something like 384x224 size images.

The previous version of UXMLS worked just fine though.

[mattrixk]

@flyingtomahawk said:

when I set the image size to 960x540 it gets completely ignored and it gives me something like 384x224 size images

I might be wrong about this, but I thought it wouldn't make the images any larger than their default size. Eg: If you set the size to 1920x1080, a 640x480 image won't download any larger than 640x480.

So maybe the images you are trying to download are just 384x224 and won't grow any bigger? Just a thought.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@mattrixk

That could be but then this must be a new feature.
Before I could scrape the exact same images in larger size. And on their website the images are available in larger size. It would be a big pain to go and download each image manually.

CORRECTION:

You are right the screenshot images are mostly small at 320x224 resolution.
So if I create mix images like screenshot+marquee the screenshot gets blown up to match but when scrapping for screenshots only the images are small.

Strange, no error message today...

[mattrixk]

@flyingtomahawk said in [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture:

It would be a big pain to go and download each image manually

You have no idea. I'm currently manually creating MIX images and a gamelist for PSP because nothing scrapes it correctly. I have to get all the different images (and data) from numerous sources. It's painstaking.

Edit: or you might have some idea. You may have gone through this before, I have no way of knowing.

[red2blue]

@screech hey man i submitted about 10 things on screenscraper and they've all been accepted yet i did not receive any new threads ???? I only received 2 from 2 days ago when i submitted one box art photo, but i didnt receive anything from the 10 things i submitted last night... but like i said they are all accepted and i got nothing in return. just that puzzle japan thing pieces

[FlyingTomahawk]

@red2blue

Join their chat and tell them that you submited some stuff and haven't received any threads.

[red2blue]

@flyingtomahawk said in [SOFT] Universal XML Scraper V2 - Easy Scrape with High Quality picture:

Join their chat and tell them that you submited some stuff and haven't received any threads.

can you give me link for chat?

[FlyingTomahawk]

@red2blue

On their website, top-left where it says CHAT IRC. Click on it.

[hansolo77]

Is the server down or having issues? I'm trying to re-scrape my GBA system, as it only currently has 2 videos. I have a complete romset, but after only scraping 2 games the program crashes. I'm not sure what could be causing it, because I've been able to completely scrape this system already to get boxart and screenshots (and metadata). So I'm just using the "Update Art" settings. I've also tried to use the "Create new XML" setting and that causes a program crash too (closing then checking microsoft for a solution to the problem).

[AndersHP]

I just finished scraping my console games (SNES, NES, Megadrive) with success and wanted to scrape Neogeo and MAME, but every image in these categories are 1kB and black..
Is there something specific I have to do to scrape NeoGeo and MAME?

NeoGeo games are placed in the NeoGeo folder, and are all FBA versions off the 0.2.97.39 Romset, MAME is MAME2003 (0.78 romset)...

[mattrixk]

screenscraper.fr is down at the moment. It was working fine last night.

[mattrixk]

Oop, back now.

[AndersHP]

@mattrixk I'm still getting all 1kB images when scraping for MAME. Is it down again?

[mattrixk]

@andershp I'm not scraping at the moment, but I'm having no trouble navigating around the site.

[red2blue]

k that IRC is completely dead never got a response.

[AndersHP]

I scraped NES games perfectly well but NeoGeo and MAME 1 minute later gives no results.

[hooperre]

Are threads directly linked to how many things I can include in a mix profile?

[hooperre]

@screech I custom made these, but I think it would be pretty cool if this was an option automatically somehow! Or if there were carts that defaulted to this setting.

[hansolo77]

I don't think @screech follows his own thread anymore. So this actually goes out to everybody.

What is the best way to scrape MAME so I can have correct metadata? I've tried NOT scraping, and the built in metadata "works" but there's no artwork for it. If I use UXS, all I get is a big gamelist with multiple entries for different roms. Meaning, there are 3 entries of 1942, even though there are 3 different rom variants (1942, 1942a, 1942b). It's very annoying just seeing my gamelist having the same game listed 3 times, but each one pointing to a different file. Is there no way to have UXS generate a gamelist that distinguishes these? I've already tried all the different naming options Gamename, Gamename + Options, Gamename + Filename tag, Filename (without ext) They all generate the same list.

Does Sseph's working better for MAME? Can it do video's yet? If so, can I tell it where to save them? I don't want them on the SD card but on my hard drive.