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    Built in scrapper hit or miss?

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    • GreenHawk84G
      GreenHawk84
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      I was actually able to scrape with the internal scraper last night via Screenscraper. I was beyond happy at that moment.

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        tackett1980 @GreenHawk84
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        @GreenHawk84

        Actually it didn’t work.

        It downloaded some descriptions but not videos.

        I wonder if I’m out of space.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @tackett1980
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          @tackett1980 said in Built in scrapper hit or miss?:

          It downloaded some descriptions but not videos.

          The built-in scraper doesn't download videos, only artwork and information (description, genre, title, rating, publisher, etc.)

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            tackett1980 @mitu
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            @mitu

            I was referring to skyscraper. Sorry for the confusion.

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            • quicksilverQ
              quicksilver @tackett1980
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              @tackett1980 it doesn't download videos by default, did you turn the option on to download videos?

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                tackett1980 @quicksilver
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                @quicksilver

                Yeah I did it seems like it only downloaded a few videos from my arcade folder up to about “P” and stopped.

                I need to back up and punt here I think...

                I need to get all these roms organized before I start worrying about scraping them .

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                • nightbirdmediaN
                  nightbirdmedia @tackett1980
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                  @tackett1980 said in Built in scrapper hit or miss?:

                  It's not you. I just ran it myself and it did nothing, In fact it actually removed some of my artwork I had previously for games. lol

                  None of the scrapers have been working for me for a week now. I even tried to add manual artwork to my games but that wasn't working like it should have either.

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                    tackett1980 @nightbirdmedia
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                    @nightbirdmedia

                    Yeah I’m starting to get the feeling that this screenscraper database source is just spotty.

                    I ran skyscraper again last night and it looks like it just randomly decided which ones it wanted to do and which ones it didn’t.

                    Then I tried to run the internal scraper and now it’s not working again either. Everything just says no games found.

                    I’m going to start looking for a windows scraper that might use a more reliable database.

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                    • quicksilverQ
                      quicksilver @tackett1980
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                      @tackett1980 are you using a login when scraping from screenscraper?

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                        tackett1980 @quicksilver
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                        @quicksilver

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

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