[SOFT] New command-line scraper

[NeeeeB]

@bkg2k

Regarde si tu peux utiliser un fichier .po - .mo pour tes traductions.
Plus simple à gérer que par xml, et tu peux du coup utiliser ce site qui est hyper pratique :
https://www.poeditor.com

[Bkg2k]

Le soft est en C#, donc les langues et les ressources associées sont gérée automatiquement par Visual Studio (et 2 plugin pour me mâcher le travail un peu plus).
L'import/export excel permet à tout un chacun de traduire et me permet à moi de réimporter les traductions en 2 clicks

[Bkg2k]

@paradadf You're welcome for the spanish translation

About automatic MD5/SHA1, sure that's a good idea. I can add this automatically for files less than a few megabytes, and add an options to force MD5/SHA for larges files.
The only limitation is for files in zip/7z/rar, because the scraper do not inflate files, it takes the CRC given by the archive instead.

[paradadf]

@bkg2k yeah, no need to inflate them. Usually, cd-based roms are unzipped anyway. It is just that I hate seeing those hashes missing. If you could add such a switch and have it deactivated by default, that’d be great.

[Bkg2k]

Hello all,

The new GUI skraper is in alpha stage, tested by a few people. It's almost complete and it should be released in bêta stage in a few days for Windows only. Linux & MacOS version will come later.
Also, the "old" console version will be replaced with a new one, using the new scraping library used in the GUI version: faster & more accurate.
Meaningwhile, you may want to check the development progress here: www.skraper.net

@paradadf : feel free to contact me on ScreenScraper if your translation proposal is still relevant

Also, Italian and German translated are welcome for both the application and the Web Site! (other languages too )

[Substring]

@bkg2k you should consuder poeditor (which means your project must be open source). Teabslations are extremly fast there

• Consider Mono compatibility. People don't only use windows ...

[Bkg2k]

@Substring Yes the project will be open source (as soon as I find a clean solution to remove my ScreenScraper's developer identifiers from the project ).

As I use Visual Studio with the appropriate plugin, languages resources are managed automatically in a fast, efficient and clean way.
Also, mono compatibility is planned, as the soft shoud be released on linux & macOS.

[Dan Donoghue]

@bkg2k said in [SOFT] New command-line scraper:

@Substring Yes the project will be open source (as soon as I find a clean solution to remove my ScreenScraper's developer identifiers from the project ).

As I use Visual Studio with the appropriate plugin, languages resources are managed automatically in a fast, efficient and clean way.
Also, mono compatibility is planned, as the soft shoud be released on linux & macOS.

That's always the hard part, Because screenscraper needs the password in each request. That's why I stopped working on my tool, got it to a point where all the admins could use it but we could never release it to the wild without my dev login being visible.

Edit: Hi bkg2k Blade Hunter here, havn't been around SS much since moving house in Dec :).

[Dan Donoghue]

Really nice looking front end on it, I have one question though.

For the image output folder I wanted to make it something like this: %ROMROOTFOLDER%%SYSTEM%\downloaded_images Is %SYSTEM% a variable it will recognize?

[Bkg2k]

@dan-donoghue Currently, Skraper replace the following varables:
%ROMROOTFOLDER% : The selected root folder you selected in the wizard.
%FRONTENDROOTFOLDER% : Selected front-end path in the wizard (only for Retropie & Launchbox).
%SCREENSCRAPERPLATFORM% : Internal ScreenScraper system name.

There is no variable for recalbox (or any other frontend) that map recalbox system folders. Actually those folders are hardcoded in the wizard (for ES-based front-ends)