2011-12-18, 14:08
st graveyard Wrote:I followed your steps, but it just doesn't work for me.This time it just seems to be the wrong file mask. It is %game%.nfo instead of %GAME%.nfo. Unfortunately this is case sensitive (may be a point for the future, too).
st graveyard Wrote:I think I don't understand the whole 'parser' concept.I guess you are more into it than most other users. Usually the user should not get in contact with the parser details, just select which site you want to scrape and RCB will do it for you. No need to worry about any implementation details.
The more "advanced" way to get game data is to use local/offline game descriptions. In this case you have to tell RCB which parser file it should use to parse these files. Parsers are just a way to tell RCB how a "game info" should be read. I could have hard coded all this without using the parser xml files but that would have limited RCB to a certain set of supported game descriptions.
The only "special" parser is the local nfo scraper as it is not meant to be configured by the user. It just acts like a "built-in" parser for your nfo files. But now I learned that it might be worth to change this.