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mickelson / attract

A graphical front-end for command line emulators that hides the underlying operating system and is intended to be controlled with a joystick or gamepad.
http://attractmode.org
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legacy.thegamesdb.net is no more, scraper does no longer work. #532

Closed meveric closed 4 years ago

meveric commented 5 years ago

legacy.thegamesdb.net servers have been disabled. Scraping is no longer possible. But hey, at least everyone is having the same issue, EmulationStation also still uses the old API.

Anyway here's the official announcement: https://forums.thegamesdb.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=591

But maybe this can be helpful to figure out how to solve this: https://github.com/maloep/romcollectionbrowser/blob/master/resources/lib/pyscraper/thegamesdb_scraper.py

LukyzCZ commented 5 years ago

Is there any alternative for AM instead of gamesdb? Thx

mickelson commented 5 years ago

None right now. I will look into what is needed to update to the new api, just need some time

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mickelson commented 5 years ago

https://forums.thegamesdb.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=621

LukyzCZ commented 5 years ago

I'm sorry for asking but is there any ETA for AM update to work with new gamedb API? Thank you

LuckyGray7 commented 5 years ago

https://forums.thegamesdb.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=621

So I just recently downloaded Attractmode so I can setup an arcade system on my arcade 1 up that I am modding, but I can't download any artwork and all my games show up as question marks because I can't scrape? do you know when this will be fixed?

meveric commented 5 years ago

It's been nearly 4 months.. It would be really nice to see this fixed. ES has this fixed since early February. I'd really like to see this fixed or have an alternative for this on AM.

oomek commented 5 years ago

@mickelson what is the status of your API key request?

multigamesystem commented 5 years ago

Any news on this? Saddens me to see my Attract Mode build incomplete. I have all the art and videos I just need all the game info, dates, genres, etc.

meveric commented 5 years ago

I found https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/ which can scrape for Attract Mode and use this now as a means of getting art and infos and stuff for my ROMs.