bigscraper-qt

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GUI Scraping tool

Bigscraper-qt is a tool you can use to scrape the LaunchBox Games Database and more. With a simple GUI, you can easily scrape metadata for a variety of systems.

If you want more information, head to the website. This README mainly serves as information regarding the development of bigscraper-qt.

Need help? For quick support or light feature suggestions, Visit the Discord Server. If it is a problem of a big enough scope, you may put it into the issue tracker..

Running from Source

Ensure you have the following dependencies installed:

• Python 3

• Qt5

• The following python packages:

  • PyQt5
  • Unidecode
  • requests
  • inputs
  • yt_dlp
  • lxml
  • xdg

Then, download the source code.

$ git clone https://github.com/Fr75s/bigscraperqt.git
$ cd bigscraperqt

After you download the source code, simply run the following. To see available flags, append -h.

$ python3 -m bsqt

Building from Source

To build from source, first clone the repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/Fr75s/bigscraperqt.git
$ cd bigscraperqt

Then, simply run one of the following, depending on which version to build:

Appimage:
$ appimage-builder --skip-tests

Flatpak:
$ flatpak-builder build io.github.fr75s.bigscraper-qt.json --force-clean [...]

Planned Features

A list of new planned features are below.

• Flathub Release
• LaunchBox Asynchronous Scraping
• Clearing Cached data by system
• UI Refresh