Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper
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@AlCzervik Ok, that is really, really odd. Then it's not a login error. Can you please verify that it says Skyscraper 3.4.4 when you run it?
EDIT: Ah, yes, it is. Because the error message is updated with "empty". In that case, I have no idea what is going on. I can't reproduce that error here. Can you try and change your password to something else and retry it with that? I'm thinking that maybe it is an encoding error.
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@muldjord I'll try the password change. Here's the screenshot:
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@AlCzervik I can't see that, it is too small
EDIT: Nevermind, it was processing, I can see it now.
EDIT2: It actually gives me some other information. It seems that you have no connection to screenscraper.fr at all. The "Retrying request..." only happens when it receives an empty reply. This should not happen. Are you behind some weird firewall or something? Is your wifi / network connection running at all?
EDIT3: I've just tested it, right now, on my own machine. It works just fine. I'm pretty sure this is a local issue to your machine.
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@muldjord I tried a larger size version but still seems super small. Regardless, you are right, that error message did change to include "empty"
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@muldjord Okay, perhaps that is it. Wifi is running fine, that's how I updated to v3.4.4. Must be something with calling that API directly and my Wifi is blocking it.
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@AlCzervik It really shouldn't be an issue. It's using https (port 443) which is always open. Otherwise you couldn't visit any encrypted webpages, which is basically all webpages. Is it possible for you to put it on wired network to test it?
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@muldjord Unfortunately, it's all built into an arcade cabinet. I'm thinking about how else I can determine why that particular call would be getting blocked.
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@AlCzervik If you at all have the chance, I would be curious to know if you could run this on any other machine. But let me know if you have further questions. Unfortunately I don't really know what else I can do at this point.
EDIT: Quick idea, do you have a DNS server registered for the connection? If not, then it won't work since it won't be able to resolve screenscraper.fr. Can you do
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@muldjord pinging google worked just fine. Tell me more about the DNS server issue?
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@AlCzervik No need. If you can ping www.google.com it is not the issue. Try doing
ping www.screenscraper.frjust for the heck of it. But it's not pinging on port 443 so it doesn't really tell us if that's the issue. -
@muldjord pinging screenscraper worked too
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@AlCzervik What happens if you do
telnet www.screenscraper.fr 443and then typetestand press enter? That will connect to the server on port 443 and sendtestto it, which should result in a400 Bad Requestreply. -
@muldjord telnet command not found
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@AlCzervik Then you should be able to do
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@muldjord Done. Sorry, was doing that too. Okay, I got the 400 Bad Request reply once I successfully installed telnet
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@AlCzervik I am very puzzled now. Then you have access to the server over port 443 (https) which means the connection works. But for some reason it always responds to you with an empty reply. Which it doesn't do for me here.
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@muldjord Could it be my version of retro pie or some other inconsistency I have installed with your latest skyscraper version?
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@AlCzervik I can't come up with anything that would cause this. What happens if you remove the credentials entirely from config.ini? Do you get the service closed for unregistered users reply when scraping games?
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@muldjord Good idea. Here's the screenshot:
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@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?
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