[SOFT] mamescraper - fast and simple scraper for MAME

[DjLeChuck]

@pdrb Oh-oh-ooooooooooh that's a good soft! I will give it a try tonight!

[paradadf]

@pdrb cool, one more scraper! I'll take a look soon. Thanks for sharing your work!

[azvarel]

Great job!

Is there a possibility to make mix image like uxs?

[DjLeChuck]

Works great after a first fast test

I will launch it on my complete romset.

[pdrb]

@azvarel said in [SOFT] mamescraper - fast and simple scraper for MAME:

Great job!

Is there a possibility to make mix image like uxs?

Sorry but I don't think it's worth it, since most of us just use flyers for arcade games...

The scraper has a 'mixed' mode enabled by default, but in this case the 'mixed' mode is just for choosing the image type for download, in 'mixed' mode a flyer will be downloaded and if a flyer is not found, a title will be downloaded instead...

@DjLeChuck said in [SOFT] mamescraper - fast and simple scraper for MAME:

Works great after a first fast test

I will launch it on my complete romset.

Thanks for testing, let me know the results after you scrap your entire set

[paradadf]

@pdrb some feedback:
tested on windows...

• if you try to use -d path_to_games_dir, the software expects to find the mame_database.xml on that folder, but it is downloaded on the launch directory. So it should look for that xml file there

mamescraper.exe -d mame -i flyer -s bigode -w 10

Initializing the scraper...

Scraping from: bigode

Mame database xml not found
 Downloading: 100%
Done!

Generating list of images to download...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "mamescraper.py", line 575, in <module>
  File "mamescraper.py", line 508, in cli
  File "mamescraper.py", line 188, in init_bigode
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mame\\mame_database.xml'
Failed to execute script mamescraper

But even after copying the xml file there, the scrape didn't work. Could it be something with the double backslash?

• There is no option to set the name of the folder where you download the images.

• If I lauch it from within the roms folder, it works as expected.

[pdrb]

@paradadf issues fixed

The problem was:

1. The romlist to scrap was being generated based on the current dir
2. The zip function was extracting in the current dir

I fixed those and added an option ('-e') to set the directory name to download the images.

Thanks for the feedback!

[DjLeChuck]

On windows, the --append parameter did not works. I haven't writing down the error sorry... I will give it tonight.

[pdrb]

@DjLeChuck strange...

I did some tests with append mode on my Windows 7 machine and it worked fine.

I am curious to know how you are running the scraper and the error message...

[saulob]

How about using images/screenshot from the game not the flyer? How can I do that?

Thanks.

[pdrb]

@saulob You can only use titles or flyers images of the games.

Sorry for the late reply

[pdrb]

I just updated the script to reflect the changes made last month on Arcade Database api.

Both sources are working fine now.