2010-10-13, 08:34
New scraping test version is available.
Features:
- new scraper: GiantBomb.com
- better matching of search results
- mix parsing of big local desc files with online scraping
new version: http://romcollectionbrowser.googlecode.c...-0.7.3.zip
new scraperpack: http://romcollectionbrowser.googlecode.c...k%20V2.zip
new example config.xml: http://pastebin.org/157338
In config.xml you have to:
If you don't find any information about your games just check how the game is called on the scraped site and maybe replace some values during the search or rename your rom files. Or add info about your games to the scraped site if the info is missing there.
I am quite satisfied with the scraping functionality and will work on breaking up the configuration from now on. So next version will definitely break compatibility with this one.
Features:
- new scraper: GiantBomb.com
- better matching of search results
- mix parsing of big local desc files with online scraping
new version: http://romcollectionbrowser.googlecode.c...-0.7.3.zip
new scraperpack: http://romcollectionbrowser.googlecode.c...k%20V2.zip
new example config.xml: http://pastebin.org/157338
In config.xml you have to:
Quote:- replace PathToRoms with the path to your roms
- replace every PathToScraperPack with the path where you unzipped the scrapers
- replace every PathToArtwork with the path where you want to store your artwork (make sure you have subfolders boxfront, boxback, cartridge and screenshot)
- Add your emu command to "emulatorCmd"
Advanced configuration:
- In the giantbomb and moby scraper you see these attributes: replaceKeyString=" III, II" replaceValueString=" 3, 2". You can use this configuration to remove or replace parts of your rom file names before searching. The above example will replace all " III" with " 3" and all " II" with " 2" before searching.
- If you want to add scraping for more RomCollections just copy the complete RomCollection entry and adjust the pathes to your data. One more thing that you have to do: Check the console id that mobygames uses in its search url (e.g. 21 = Sega32, 15 = SNES). You can check for other ids if you start a search by console on mobygames.com and see what the url looks like.
If you don't find any information about your games just check how the game is called on the scraped site and maybe replace some values during the search or rename your rom files. Or add info about your games to the scraped site if the info is missing there.
I am quite satisfied with the scraping functionality and will work on breaking up the configuration from now on. So next version will definitely break compatibility with this one.