Failed to Scrape all games?
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Pi 4
Retropie 4.6
EmulationStation v2.9.1RPEmulationStation scraper stopped working. I ran an initial scrape which I cancelled when it was about 1/3 of the way through, metadata is fine for those it picked up. Now whenever I run it regardless of source (gamesdb or screenscraper) it blazes through files and doesn't scrape anything.
I have an internet connection so no problem there. I used gamesdb first, once it stopped working neither sources work. At a loss here, games have standard naming convention "Game Name (U) (!).rom" or what have you. They scraped fine at first go so I don't think it's the file name.
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Sometimes the scrapers stop working as the websites run into problems. I found the scrapers weren't working for me earlier today but later on started working again.
I know it sounds a pain but try them at different times of the day and see if it works.
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Both scrapers have limits on the # of requests you're allowed to make. TheGamesDB has a monthly quota of about 15000 requests (not sure), while ScreenScraper will give you I think 10000 requests daily. If you exhausted your request limit, you'll not be able to scrape - you'll have to wait.
EDIT: seems like ScreenScraper has a few problems at the moment and scraping from it will not work until they sort out the issue.
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