Test a new data source for sselph/scraper

[relative]

@relative nvm, I changed it through the front-end... adding that string in the command line has no effect whatsoever.

[sselph]

@relative the -use_ flags were not great so a while back I changed these to -console_src="ss,gdb" where you pass an ordered list of sources. There is also -mame_src and you can see the list of accepted flags and documentation with -h

[superjoe]

How do you specify the user and password for screenscraper.fr on the arguments of the sselph scrapper? So far I've been using the Universal Xml Scrapper V2 but it requires registration.

[relative]

@superjoe
-ss_username -ss_password

They are not mandatory as far as I I know. I was able to scrape without them.

[relative]

@sselph okay thanks.

[sselph]

@relative Yeah they haven't typically been mandatory but if there is any congestion on the server, you will be told that you can't access it. Also they limit the number of threads to 1 unless you are registered, but that isn't too bad.

[craig0r]

@sselph can you tell me how I might add my credentials to the scraper.sh script? (I'm indeed running into that congestion.)

[sselph]

@craig0r -ss_user="myssuser" -ss_password="mypassword" if you are adding it to the scraper.sh you'd add it here:
https://github.com/sselph/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/scraper.sh#L112
as something like params+=(-ss_user="myssuser" -ss_password="mypassword")

[soulfunkdjx]

@sselph Hey man i have already a gamelist with boxarts and metadata for every game on every system and now i want to use your scaper to add videosnaps to every game. The problem is that i want to append my gamelists and when i do that it doesn't work. It's downloading videosnaps only if i choose overwrite gamelists but i will lose all the metadata and boxarts that i was fighting to build over a year now.
Is there a fix for the append option for gamelists?

[Necrym]

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