How to Use Skraper for Batocera
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- This tutorial will teach you how to use the App Skraper so that you can scrape your game console and arcade collections for use in Batocera.
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www.skraper.net/
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Finally someone who properly explained the "Gamelist Type" options!!
Exactly what I was looking for as well.
Great and helpful video as always.
Keep doing what you're doing.
Thanks!
Great informative videos. Only suggestion I would have has to do with volume. Your splash beginning is killer loud especially with headphones or ear buds compared to the volume of your speaking. Learning a lot and when to grab for the volume control lol
I will work on equalizing the sound. Thanks for the suggestion!
hey, im running my batocera on a hard drive so when i go to add the folder during installation i dont see a share folder. how can i go about finding? or what folder should i use?
it was a very useful video, glad to have you, you are super
Thanks for the great videos
Nice video.
I always use the PC version of skraper over the built in same version within Batocera cause it has more options and settings.
Never used that Arm one though, will have to check that one out.
Arrm is a little hard in the beginning but worth it. You can customize everything or automate IT. EG: create m3u and hide the chd files. 🤗
@@DarkdaemonEU
Nice.
But the hiding and adding of file extensions for scraping you can do that with skraper as welll.. individually for each system.
Great stuff!
Thanks!
This is awesome! I just discovered Batocera and am having a blast setting it all up!
I'm curious... is there a similar way to scrape with EmuMovies?
Oh... edit to add: Your videos are a treasure trove of information! Keep the content coming!
No. No EmuMovies unfortunately.
@@BatoceraNation aww ok! Thanks for the reply!
Your having a blast and I’m having a head ache
No. Not with Emu.
@@highsourceoffiner7480 I believe the external hard drive is messing things up. The app was designed with the assumption that it would be reading the rom files from the internal Batocera drive using a network connection. If your games are stored on an external hard drive and playing it from there, why not copy the image data and video data into the rom folder of the external hard drive. Then open gamelist file from the internal Batocera rom folder and see how the games are being pointed to your external hard drive and use the same file directory structure to point your images and videos in the same manner on your gamelist.xml file from the one the app created. You might even do a search and replace with the correct folder directory. Then copy that edited and saved file back into Batocera's rom folder replacing the one stored there. Make backup copies of the gamelist.xml file from the one the app created.
Great work!
I have select a theme with a video for each system (named as the roms folder). But now i want to add a video for Last Played, 2 Players, 4 Players. How should we name the file.mp4 for a colection?
Thanks
You've got me stumped. I don't know if that's even possible. You might want to pose that question on Batocera.org
So i am able to see the \\batocera connected via ethernet on my computer. I am able to see the folders and rom folder, but when i try to select it in skraper its not there. Any idea what im doing wrong?
Anyone know why batocera had 1953 games showing before I scraped psx folder then it changed to 1832 games after scraping was completed
When using Skraper to get manuals, the gamelist.xml file is not updated with the location of the manuals. Skraper places a manuals folder in the media folder. There is no option to view the manual using this method. When using the internal scraper, the manuals are placed in a manuals folder that is in the rom folder and the manual is viewable.
Same problem here with Skraper 1.1.1. If you have other type of media like wheel, fanart or manual; it doesn’t link them to gamelist.xml after scraping and they are not shown in batocera. ARRM has horrible ui but gets the job done at least.
I'm loving your working!
I'm using symlinks to another harddrive, but i cant see those roms in that harddrive in smb share folder on a windows machine. Is there a way to see the symlinks or the extra hard drive?
I'm not too clear about SMB yet. I haven't tested it out yet. But to add another hard drive, have you tried this: czcams.com/video/aYKD9TQjHYM/video.html
Yes have tried and have the games running on another hard drive, thats great. However now i want to scrape it with ARRM and I can only scrape the share folder from batocera main drive.
I could copy the roms to main batocera drive and them scrape it but it will be a pain because i have a small SSD (128 GB) as main and 500 GB hard drive as extra storage.
the video is very good, because it does not make an image of your system?
yes good idea bro
The image of your system is defined by the theme you are using. That's how it is designed.
@@BatoceraNation bro I say about the compilation of roms that your batocera has, not about thema
Are you asking about making a backup copy of gamelist file?
@@BatoceraNation make a complete image of the system to no longer burn the iso balena etcher and already have the system so that you can see more or less how you visit the game ecuador channel
Bro insted of directly store my scrape and videos i stored to my laptop first and then i transfered to batocera using usb and when im updaiting game list its not shwoing amy scrape and videos where m i wrong
How did you get two treads?
I have sign up to Skraper and even been supporting them on Patreon for 1 dollar a month. But recently I've had no luck getting it to work, because every time I sign in to the software, it says: "Authentication failed 1 thread". I don't know if this is a problem on their end or if I've mucked things up from reformatting the computer, but I really hope it gets resolved soon, so I can actually scrape my current library without interference!
I tried yesterday and it worked for me.
@@BatoceraNation Yesterday it worked alright for a little while, but I still couldn't sign in. I would try to get help from Discord, but I'm locked out of my Discord account because I lost my authenticator and there's no other way to get back in!
I had a similar problem. I found if I logged into Screenscraper first (and stayed logged in) and then ran the Skraper programme I had no problem with authentication. Odd.
Im tripping about run those with wine
Scraper for Linux is the same as the one for Windows, it just run under WINE and the apple version is not publicly available, whatever that means.
So how long does it take screenscraper to upgrade you after you donate and where do you tell them your ID ?
On the website and on Batocera when you choose screenscraper as your scraper. Found by pressing the Start button on your gamepad.
Great video! Thanks!
But... Well that just doesnt worked at all for me. All the files downloaded has no option to add a suffixes as the batocera read it and cant change format to jpg. (game-name-image.jpg, game-name-thumb.jpg)
I´m using the batocera linux version.
The video is already 10 months old, is it still better to use this software for scraping than using the built-in scraping mode of Batocera? Or is the built-in batocera scraping much better now after 10 months?
The scraping mode in Batocera has gotten better since there is now a new scraping database. However the standalone apps are still useful to catch what the built-in scrapers don't catch.
@@BatoceraNation Thanks a lot for the info, I think I will use the software then, so I can see how it looks like on the system with the preview pictures.
How did get your wifi to stay on when you connected to the ethernet?
I’m having an issue where I use the scraper tool but some reason I’m putting in the wrong area so I have to copy the XML file and it keeps on changing every time I copy and paste it and open up Batocera Not sure spent over 6 hours trying to do this Still haven’t figured it out. The images and videos are not even showing up
When you copy the scraped gamelist.xml file back into Batocera, does it ask you to overwrite your original file? It should. Oh, it might be that it is scraping the location of your hard drive (D drive or E drive, etc). Open your gamelist.xml file with Notepad and look where it is pointing your videos and images to. If it is pointing to your external hard drive, you need to replace it to your local hard drive in Batocera.
i dont know why, i try 10 times to scrap my PS2 games but..... no effekt , the scrapper is running and show that is all complete but if i open batocera on my mini pc no images will show nothing......the scraper on the batocera system itself is running too but no images oder names
Thx for the vid!
Can you set the vid to start instantly in Batocera? That fade in delay would really annoy me.....
No. There is no way around that unfortunately.
@@BatoceraNation oh :-(
The Config Wizard does not detect my Batocera OS. I have my Windows 10 laptop connected to my Batocera OS laptop with Ethernet. My Batocera laptop is only running one Hard Drive which is Batocera. On my windows laptop I successfully connected to Bat and can view files thru \\batocera\share.. however when I’m in Screen Scraper Wizard to select rom path, I select Network but the ‘ok’ is gray and Batocera doesn’t show up under network.
I solved this by adding the "share" folder to This PC in the file browser. First pin the share folder to start (right click on the folder and choose "Pin to start")then restart the computer. Open the file browser, click on This PC. Then move the pinned folder over to the This PC window. The pinned "share" folder gets allocated a drive letter by the network mapper, and this will then show up in the Skraper browser.
Great solution! Thanks for sharing this solution with us.
Thanks for this great video, one question, I see when you run Skraper it creates a media subfolder then creates the images and videos sub folder. All my image and video folders are directly below the rom folder, if I run Skraper and it creates the media folder, Barocera doesn’t see the images and video subfolders and I have to manually move the files. How did you configure Batocera or read the media folders?
Skraper creates the media folders and then you have to manually move them to your Batocera system under the roms folder. That's just the way it is.
How do you get more than one work engine?
With the built in scraper, when you register and become a sponsor or supporter, you get more than 1 work engine in your account.
Please can you help me? : I need to buy a small computer in the price range of 500 to 580 dollars that works effectively with games?
also what you think about this mini pc ( i5-9300H + (GTX 1650 + intel UHD Graphics 630 ) + 8 GB DDR 4 + 256 GB SSD +WiFi + windows 10 ) ?
thank you
As long as you can replace the SSD, you should be good to go.
I also have product reviews of the two Batocera systems that I use. They're mini PCs but powerful. You can find those reviews at my website www.batoceranation.com in the Reviews tab.
@@BatoceraNation thank you very much . I will check for that .
It did not work very well for Naomi on my system, only found maybe about half the games and only seemed to scrape videos, no box art.
The Built in Scrapper di a much better job, scrapped all the games but only seemed to do the videos but at least it got all the games.
For Naomi and other arcade systems try selecting 2D boxart that way you will get arcade posters or the promo poster art style.
Since technically there is no real game box art cause these are arcade systems.
Where are the scrapped media saved?
Image folder.
media folder in each console/system folder where roms are stored.
Skraper is good if you can get it to work. Can never get the validation to work, even created another account and still won't validate.
Sometimes the site is down. When it is, nothing works. That's why I encourage paid membership with them (I have no affiliation with them) in order to prevent downtime with their servers.
Okay... okay... okay...
I dont understand the benefit of using this.. Why not just sign up with screenscraper and scrape through Batocera? Also, what if I have Batocera on a separate PC than my windows PC?
The app works much faster and better than the built-in scraper.
@@BatoceraNation I transfer my images and videos into the roms folder into batocera and update the games list and the images and videos don’t work any help ?
@@highsourceoffiner7480 There is also the gamelist file that you have to copy as well.
Very complex.
I setup retroarch on my tablet, and scraped all game boxes straight from retroarch easily.
Why so hard in Batocera?
We lost you need to explain how to do it without having your thing hooked up to Wi-Fi and your games on the other hard drive or something because I can’t get the XML file from my games because I’m transferring my games using F1 and my route file is not on that it’s on a USB drive so how do you get the XML file from your computer to the USB drive because every time I do it and copy and paste the XML file to my Brahms folder where my media and videos are after I transfer those as well with F1 after Indaco Sarah it just changes the XML file after I update the games list
Half way through the video and I still don't know what "scraping" is.