Thx! That is actually a good interim solution.

So scraping from one of the API services is still better than trying to find a dump somewhere online I'm guessing, due to ROM compatibility...

@RetroRick said in where do I put the CREDENTIALS from SCREENSCRAPER.fr in retropie for SkyScraper OR SS Scraper?:

$HOME .emulationstation/downloaded_media
but will not show up on the metadata screen, nor play.

You might have an existing gamelist that's overriding the one generated by the scraper.

@mitu said in Best way to scrape ONE GAME?:

Right now it looks like ScreenScraper has given back access to non-registered users, so scraping from EmulationStation (using ScreenScraper) should work.

It should be possible to use screenscraper.fr credentials within ES. Is there a reason why this isn't implemented?

@mr-berlin
I see this post is a little old, but I have exactly the same problem. Did you find a solution in the end?

I have read the posts above and will try out the suggestions, but I was hoping that "scaping" would automate the process so that I did not have to manually download or re-code all those videos.

FYI - Raspberry Pi 4B 1GB Retropie 4.7.4 - Scraped with Steven Self’s optional scraper package.

I use openretro for images, and screenscraper for info. Then execute de "generate game list"

I am using Skyscrapper for pics and Steven Selph's scrapper for videos (as I couldn't login in Screenscraper, now I know how thanks to this thread!). My pics and metadata are ok but my videos are just sound and a blackscreen, any idea what's wrong? I'm on a Pi 3B + retropie 2.7.1, OMX player is on.

@mitu ok, thank you!

@muldjord Thanks! I'll still be giving Skyscraper another go of course! There's still lots more scraping to be done.

I just created an account on screenscraper.fr . I edited the file with my login info and now it seems to be working for the most part. However it only missed a few games?

Maybe I did the scraper thing right?

@quicksilver

Yes I made an account a while back and it’s in the skyscraper config.

'ss' is the internal one used by ScreenScraper. So it's not a region per-se. I am actually not sure what they use it for.

EDIT: I have pretty much all of them in my Skyscraper docs here. Skyscraper uses an internal region priority list as documented there. It will also auto-detect regions based on the filename. Also documented at that link.

ScreenScraper has a limit of requests per day (like TheGamesDB has) - you may be over that limit or simply their servers are too busy and they're only servicing registered users.

@vehige33 You just repeated your first message - I asked for more details about your setup and a specific SNES game that doesn't scrape. I just scraped some SNES games right now from EmulationStation and I didn't have an issue - so it doesn't seem to be an issue with the scraper(s) or the source site (ScreenScraper).

Since the scrapers usually get the info from an external site, the easiest solution would be to add that information there. Otherwise, I know Skyscraper has an import scraping module where you can add your own information, complementing what's on the source site, but that has to be done for each ROM - so it's just like editing the information manually from EmulationStation or directly adding that information to the gamelist.xml file.

Skyscraper supports https://www.worldofspectrum.org as a scraping source., which also lists ZX81 programs.

@IanDaemon I think the „playing“ part is much too big in this diagram. 😉

@mitu i ended up getting it fixed I just deleted the game list.xml and image folder and put the rom directly in the folder instead of in a folder inside of a folder. not sure why it did that with the nes games because I scraped a couple sega cd games before that , they were structured the same way (roms/segacd/game/game files) and it didn’t fail to reload EmulationStation but it placed the image in the last folder. Maybe because those games have multiple game files in the folder instead of just 1. I’ll see what happens with the ps1 games .