TheGamesDB down again, Scraper not working
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Hi everyone,
Just noticed that the built-in Retropie Scraper is not working with, so I noticed errors when trying to access TheGamesDB.net. Seems like the site is down.
But then I tried using ScreenScraper.Fr instead, but it keeps loading and loading and it never really seems to be connecting.
EDIT: This is because ScreenScraper no longer seems to work for unregistered users, which has been covered here. Wondering if the guys from EmuStation will ever update the built-in scraper to allow us to add a username/password for ScreenScraper.Fr.
Thoughts?
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TheGamesDB is not down, scraping works fine from EmulationStation. If you've been scraping from it recently, you might have reached the monthly request limit (5000 requests if I remember correctly ?).
Wondering if the guys from EmuStation will ever update the built-in scraper to allow us to add a username/password for ScreenScraper.Fr.
Until then, you can use one of the external scrapers available in RetroPie, both allow you to use a ScreenScraper account for scraping.
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@pmdci said in TheGamesDB down again, Scraper not working:
EDIT: This is because ScreenScraper no longer seems to work for unregistered users, which has been covered here.
That's not so much a "no longer..." issue as it is a "sometimes" issue. They said "at the moment" which was *checks calendar* a little over a year ago. screenscraper.fr occasionally blocks access to unregistered users due to heavy traffic. Sometimes it doesn't work for anybody. These periods last a few hours. It comes back up. It's not like they locked it down and never opened it back up again.
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