2014-10-25, 15:46
I'm having trouble scraping images and metadata for my ROMS. I have about 250 SNES games and I made a launcher for them and can successfully launch them via retroarch. I wanted to have all artwork and metadata for the games, so I set up each area of the SNES launcher on automatic and tried Thegamesdb for my scraper for info, thumbs, and then tried to use HTBackdrops for my fanart. After a few tries with getting no results, I realized that thegamesdb.net seems to be down right now. I also realized that HTbackdrops changed their URL from .com to .org. I edited the HTbackdrops scraper python file to reflect this change, but I still get no fanart (I'm not a python dev, so I assume that the returned array needs to be modified to work correctly).
Finally, since thegamesdb.net is down and only returns results from Cloudflare, which doesn't seem to work for their API. So, I switched my scraper to GamesFAQs. After scraping about 10 titles, my ip address has been banned for abuse.
Has anyone tried to recently scrape ROMs? Because, I'm not having any luck getting either metadata or artwork. I appreciate any help.
Finally, since thegamesdb.net is down and only returns results from Cloudflare, which doesn't seem to work for their API. So, I switched my scraper to GamesFAQs. After scraping about 10 titles, my ip address has been banned for abuse.
Has anyone tried to recently scrape ROMs? Because, I'm not having any luck getting either metadata or artwork. I appreciate any help.