Question on Credentials

[YourUncleBob]

It looks like this tool does everything that I'm looking for, but I can't figure out how to get any of the scrapers to work. What I'm most looking for is something that lets me scrape a specific subset of games, and look first in a local cache (because I already have a lot of what I need from an older Batocera drive). Gamelist_Manager looks to do that, but I can't figure out how to get it to work.

I have accounts for EmuMovies and ScreenScraper.

The code uses:
(userName, userPassword) = CredentialHelper.GetCredentials("EmuMovies")

To get my username and password, but I can't find any documentation on how to set those credentials up so that the code finds them.

To get past that, I just went ahead and put my credentials directly into the code for username and pasword. Then I run into exceptions a bit farther along in the process:

For EmuMovies -
_bearerToken = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["EmuMovies_bearerToken"]

And for ScreenScraper:
_devId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ScreenScraper_DevId"]

Is there some documentation somewhere that I'm missing?

[RobG66]

@YourUncleBob Both Emumovies and Screenscraper require the application to autheticate to the scraper API as well. For emumovies there is a bearertoken and Screenscraper uses a dev id and password. These are naturally omitted from the source code I post on github because they are my developer credentials. The compiled release versions do include this so they can function. You can request developer credentials from either site and those would be put in the app.config file.

[YourUncleBob]

Excellent, thank you.

My biggest mistake was not noticing that you had a releases area with an already built executable.

I'll probably still get the developer credentials. The one change I believe I want to make is to have it search several cache locations locally before downloading scraped data. I have a Raspberry Pi build with most of what I want scraped on it and I'm setting up a PC build. I could copy all of the files off of the Raspberry Pi into the Gamelist-Manager cache location, but that would be way less fun than having the manager do it for me.

[YourUncleBob]

And the other change. I wrote a small utility to migrate my favorites from one Batocera install to another. That may as well be something that the Gamelist-Manager does as well.

[RobG66]

XML/JSON Cache format changed a bit in 8.2 with different placeholders for credentials. I don't know what kind of cache you are referring to though. Screenscraper uses an XML cache response file while ArcadeDB uses JSON. The cache files match the rom filenames without extension. Emumovies uses a big json list, so cache is never an issue with that.

If I was migrating, why not just copy gamelists over. You can easily find/remove missing items and find new ones as well. The media tool can find missing/unused media and clean that up too for you.

It's always a work in progress. I want to add more media management functionality, like drag/drop in the media view. It's been on my todo list for a long time.