ES-DE: How to use Skraper to scrape your games outside of ES-DE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- This video will walk through how to use a program called Skraper to scrape game media & metadata outside of ES-DE . Using an external scraper can be helpful for many use cases such as preparing your games before you get your device or scraping a larger library overnight. So if you are interested in scraping using an external program, hopefully this video will help you learn what that process looks like.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:31 Initial Config
03:09 Gamelist Config
04:48 Media Config
10:03 Scraping
11:42 Moving Files
References:
- Download Skraper here: www.skraper.net/
- Our video on using ES-DE's built-in scraper: • ES-DE: How to add artw...
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I would have loved to have had this video like 6 months ago. I instead kinda fumbled my way through figuring this out on my own. It's great that there is a video on it now for people in the future to find if they want to do this.
Sorry I wasn't around back then =) but i'm also glad this looks like it will help others based on your experience.
@@ES-DE_Frontend It should definitely help, especially with what to name the image folders, and where to save the .xml files and image folders after everything is done. These were things I kinda had to figure out my self after scraping a few games using the built-in scraper and then digging through the ES-DE files.
now we need one for the bezel project because it is made for retropie you need to do it manually
Thank you! I use Skraper all the time, this will be useful! I'd love to be able to scrape android apps.
I have quick question, I'm using retrobat, in the configuration wizard (FRONT END SELECTION) I just select recalbox in my setup? What's the difference between choosing the other 3 options? I'm sorry for so many questions I'm new to this. Thank you for another great video 👍
Sorry I am not that familiar with Retrobat but I do at least think it uses a variant of EmulationStation. So with that in mind it is possible that the Recalbox option in the wizard will work for your case as well. But best to try to find the discord or forum for Retrobat and try to ask there. Sorry i'm not able to be of more help than that (ES-DE is a separate project so this video focuses purely on ES-DE specifics).
retrobat is going to be closer to recalbox out of the box than ES-DE is, as I believe retrobat still looks for the images and .xml files in the console folders the same as recalbox.
@@ES-DE_Frontend I'm so sorry.. I asked because retrobat seems to be connected in some way. I've also been thinking just switching to es de. . seems less complicated and more friendly user for a beginner like me. thanks for answering my questions❤ and will look forward to your videos in the future👍
@@DonaldWymanthan you so much for replying. it was really confusing since there is no option for es de or retrobat. I still have a lot to learn. thank you so much for your answer👍
@@esteban_dido_1 No problem. The reason the Recalbox option works for these 2 is that recalbox, es-de, and retrobat is that they are all forms of emulation station. Recalbox is a whole operating system That uses emulationstation as the main interface, whereas the other 2 are just forks of emulation station to be used in whatever OSs they support(I think retrobat is windows only).
That's cool, is it possible to configure Skraper to recreate the downloaded_media folder and/or create a separate folder on an SD that ES-DE can use rather than the above?
sadly not that i have found - would be a good suggestion for the skraper team though. we're hoping they are interested in helping create a more direct configuration.
@@ES-DE_Frontend It is possible by using specific configuration for each system. Tedious but doable. The fastest way is to edit manually the skraper.config.json file I think. Each overriden system is contained between an {"Overriden" } tag so it relatively easy to do one system then copy/paste it and mass replacing the folder path (just take care of the file extensions tag which diffear from system to system). Not saying that it is painless but it is a one time job so worth it imho. In fact only the "Medias:" and "OutputFile:" tags need to be replaced.
Do you plan on increasing the overall thread support on the Android app itself? My current setup is for Pegasus and I've been manually moving stuff around. To use Scraper would essentially mean going back to the start again. I've put over all my media and re-ran a scrape through the app but its dreadfully slow even though I pay for 6 threads.
there are no plans to increase the amount of threads in app
is there a place i can get notified for a new version of skraper?
i believe they have a channel screenscraper discord
@@ES-DE_Frontend screenscraper not skyscraper
waiting on emudeck to work with android so i can put this on my retroid pocket 4 pro.
great vid but why use skraper when the build in scraper uses the same database screenscraper
ES-DE's built in scraper is solid (and I like that its native and can be used while using the app). That said we have seen a few use cases where it may make sense to use an external program like Skraper. For example; lets say you want to prepare your media ahead of getting your device. A program like Skraper could allow you to get all your metadata/media prepared ahead of time. Another common one is ES-DE's built-in scraper must stay open while you are scraping; so if you have a large library then Skraper could be a nice alternative to scraping outside of ES-DE so you can play games while Skraper is doing its job =)
@@ES-DE_Frontendah oke