Scraper will not scrape in emulation station

mahoneyt944

I updated all core and main packages,

When I try to scrape in emulation station, no images are found for any games. I had this happen once before where updating emulation station to the latest build solved the issue. Sadly this time that does not fix the issue. I tried both scrapers available from the ES menu but neither are working.

Can someone tell me how to get scraper working again in ES? Any search results for this point me to old solutions that are not working so far....

Thank You!

mitu

Which scraping source are you using ?

mahoneyt944

how can I check? I installed emulationstation from binary just a moment ago and within the ES start menu select scraper. Neither database is working for me.

mitu

ScreenScraper at the moment is not working for non-registered users, so that won't work. I'm not sure about TGDB source, they had an outage near the end of last year and they've changed their site and the way artwork is searched and downloaded, probably that's why it doesn't work.

I think that right now your option is to use an external scraper - like SkyScraper.

mahoneyt944

Ill try it. I did try one of the external scrapers though. I think the Stephen one? It couldn't scrape either.

mahoneyt944

@mitu

Unfortunately sky scraper also does not work. I think because it pulls from the same resources which are not working...…

any other solutions available?

mitu

@mahoneyt944 said in Scraper will not scrape in emulation station:

Unfortunately sky scraper also does not work. I think because it pulls from the same resources which are not working...…

What source are you using ? If it's ScreenScraper, then you need to register an account with them in order to work - as I said before, non-registered users cannot use the site right now.

mahoneyt944

@mitu

I registered on ScreenScraper.fr, how do I get retropie to login to it so I can scrape from ES?

mitu

You'll need to edit the Skyscraper's configuration file ($HOME/.skyscraper/config.ini) and add your credentials there, for the screenscraper module.

[screenscraper]
userCreds="user:passwd"

More details in the Skyscraper Docs.

mahoneyt944

@mitu

I'm trying to understand what's happening here.... I reinstalled scraper and skyscraper from the optional packages menu in retropie setup.

For scraper I was able to edit:

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/scraper.sh

Where I added:
params+=(-ss_user "user")
params+=(-ss_password "password")

This allows scraper to work from command line. But scraper from within ES does not work still.

Next I edited:

$HOME/.skyscraper/config.ini

with these changes:

[screenscraper]
userCreds="user:passwd"

I didn't test skyscraper from command line but I assume it now works, but scraper from within ES start menu still does not work.

How do I get scraper that is built in to emulation station start menu to work so I don't have to use command line to scrape?

mitu

@mahoneyt944 said in Scraper will not scrape in emulation station:

I didn't test skyscraper from command line but I assume it now works, but scraper from within ES start menu still does not work.

I'm confused to why would you think it would work ? My suggestion to use an external scraper (i.e. external to EmulationStation) was because scraping from within EmulationStation does not work at the moment because of the changes/limitations of the scraping sources.

mahoneyt944

My confusion was from the "screenscraper" name being under the ES menu.... I assumed it was the same script running as scraper from command line. So I was confused as to why scraper was working in command line but not ES.

So.. ES uses its own script to connect to the ScreenScraper.fr database that's currently not working and scraper from command line is connecting to ScreenScraper.fr in a different way that's working?

Is the ES scraper issue just the login to ScreenScraper.fr ….. anyway to edit it in?

mitu

@mahoneyt944 said in Scraper will not scrape in emulation station:

So.. ES uses its own script to connect to the ScreenScraper.fr database that's currently not working and scraper from command line is connecting to ScreenScraper.fr in a different way that's working?

No. There's no 'script' - it's built in EmulationStation. The reason it's not working is that it doesn't use credentials for scraping from ScreenScraper.

Is the ES scraper issue just the login to ScreenScraper.fr ….. anyway to edit it in?

No, EmulationStation does not support user/password for scraping (from ScreenScraper or other source). Please use skyscraper with your registered account on ScreenScraper.fr to scrape.

mahoneyt944

@mitu ok, thank you!