{"id":153,"date":"2015-05-29T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alltechbusiness.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-05-29T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:48:17","slug":"command-line-scraper-for-retropie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/command-line-scraper-for-retropie\/","title":{"rendered":"Command Line Scraper for RetroPie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with a Raspberry Pi for the last few weeks.  Have RetroPie setup and was attempting to use the builtin scraper in Emulation Station.  Unfortunately it&#8217;s not great.  It would stop working, hang up and skip lots of files.  My preference would be a scraper that works on a CLI.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UC_gHYOXQ6g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Great tutorial on the scraper, written by Steven Selph, that runs on the command line and can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sselph\/scraper\">https:\/\/github.com\/sselph\/scraper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems to be working like a champ.  The only downside is that, according to the video, it won&#8217;t pull in descriptions for Mame roms.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">I&#8217;ve been playing with a Raspberry Pi for the last few weeks. Have RetroPie setup and was attempting to use the builtin scraper in Emulation Station. Unfortunately it&#8217;s not great. It would stop working, hang up and skip lots of files. My preference would be a scraper that works on a CLI. Then I found this video: Great tutorial on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/command-line-scraper-for-retropie\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[66,69,65,68,67,71,70],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Command Line Scraper for RetroPie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RetroPie includes Emulation Station which has a built in scraper, but doesn&#039;t work perfect. 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