Scraper not working

[Olifiers]

As of 24th of June 2019, none of the two scrapers are returning any matches, nor throwing any error messages when failing to scrap.

[ocket8888]

TheGamesDB.net now requires registered API keys and the legacy API has been shut down. I'm not sure this project is actually still maintained, but a good place to start would be modifying the request path in GamesDBScraper.cpp

[ocket8888]

I'm attempting to fix this in #802 , but I think the maintainer of this project may never be around to merge it.

[DSMan97]

I propose a Solution for this I am goint to use https://api.igdb.com/ API to engace with the Scrapper on the Emulation Station, sorry for my English.
I hope that Idea have contributors to develope

[ocket8888]

they have a 10k/month limit on the free version of their API, and probably have rules against disseminating a paid version to the public

[DSMan97]

So, what you propose?
We can Make It own Api for this but its so much Work.

[ocket8888]

For now I'm trying to work on giving people a way to configure their own scrapers, but with a default that uses TheGamesDB with my own public API key.

[DSMan97]

but legacy.thegamesdb.net/api/GetGame.php? is unavailable

[ocket8888]

sure, but api.thegamesdb.net is available

[DSMan97]

what?? and works equals, just changeing the String Url and compile Works?

[DSMan97]

Do you have a working version of emulations station with Scrapper Fix??

[ocket8888]

Sort of. I have this: #802 which works, assuming you have an API key to put in there. It doesn't have my API key yet, as I'm still testing. It also still includes the other scraper, which I haven't fixed yet.

[DSMan97]

In Retropie setup fork of EmulationStation is Fixed
see here i think, because today I tried and works (I don´t try months before because I thought that is not working) see my gif

Did you fixed ocket8888?

[ocket8888]

Yes, Retropie seems to have solved this already. Dunno if they've already opened a PR, but it seems unlikely at this point that it'll get merged at any rate.

Mine works, but also is aiming in the long-term to be much more general, and to support any scraper database that matches a certain behavior pattern.

[TitanLife]

Is there a way to search and if multiple results choose between those that return? Kinda similar to hakchi?

[Vicj1]

What about Windows users? Any way to fix that?