Skyscraper - generate gamelist only once in the end?

10vorne

Just to be on the safe side: If I run Skyscarper and the requests have been exhausted, do I have to create the game list before the next run or can I only do that once after all the runs have been completed? Skyscraper writes everything into the cache and then checks it when it is run again and does not request the titles that have already been scraped again, right?

LeatherWing

@10vorne correct.
You can generate a game list at any time, scrape more and generate it again, or just wait till you've scrapped all the games and generate the list then. Makes no difference to the scraping process.

You can choose to skip scrapped games or to re download images in cashe options and commands menu useing "Scrape only missing"

sleve_mcdichael

@LeatherWing said in Skyscraper - generate gamelist only once in the end?:

You can choose to skip scrapped games or to re download images in cashe options and commands menu useing "Scrape only missing"

The onlymissing flag doesn't do what you think it does.

Default behavior is, skip a game that has already cached data from this source (screenscraper, thegamesdb, etc.). Scrape a different source, and data will be gathered there as well.

If you want to re-download data from a source again (or gather additional data such as marquees or videos that weren't enabled the first time), use --cache refresh.

With onlymissing, it skips a game that has cached data from any source, not just the current one. You will use onlymissing when you have exhausted the other sources (of everything they have, not just your daily download limit) and need to get those last few obscure titles from mobygames that aren't found anywhere else.

Lolonois

@sleve_mcdichael said in Skyscraper - generate gamelist only once in the end?:

If you want to re-download data from a source again (or gather additional data such as marquees or videos that weren't enabled the first time), use --cache refresh.

Almost: --refresh / --cache refresh does update every enabled property (ie. cacheCovers=true and others in config.ini) of the scraped ROM(s).

By using only --flags video (or videos=true in config.ini) or setting in the ini: cacheMarquees=true (if it was false before) without --refresh will scrape the missing properties for the ROM(s), unless they are present in the cache for that scraper module.