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@muldjord muldjord released this 21 Sep 14:22
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2.7.5
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  • Fixed a bug where 'brackets="false"' in config.ini would be flipped (Thanks to Vynce for reporting this)
  • Completely refactored pass procedures for cleaner code and to enable '--query' option
  • Added '--query' command line option. This option requires a single rom file to be passed on command line aswell, otherwise it will be ignored (Thank you to AnalogHero and Vynce for suggesting this)
  • Added scrapers to 'psx' and 'pc' platforms when using Simple Mode

To elaborate on the "--query" option, this is how it works: For most modules a search query is sent to the scraping module in an URL format. That means that a filename such as "Rick Dangerous.lha" becomes "rick+dangerous". The '+' here means a space. You could probably also use the URL encoded space "rick%20dangerous" but my tests show that most modules expect spaces as '+'. And it is the "rick+dangerous" that you, as the user, can pass as the query, like so:

$ Skyscraper -p [platform] -s [module] --query "rick+dangerous" [filename]

Remember to also add a filename that you wish to use the override with. Otherwise the query will be ignored.

But, not all of the scraping modules are search name based. For instance, the "screenscraper" module can use a variety of different search methods. So for screenscraper, you also have the option of overriding the checksums it use to search for a game. This is especially convenient in cases where a filename exists multiple times in their database and your own local file doesn't match with any of the connected checksums (maybe you've compressed the rom yourself or whatever).
In this case you can look up one of the working checksums on "screenscrapers" website (screenscraper.fr) and override the checksum like these examples:

$ Skyscraper -p [platform] -s [module] --query sha1=[checksum] [filename]
$ Skyscraper -p [platform] -s [module] --query md5=[checksum] [filename]
$ Skyscraper -p [platform] -s [module] --query sha1=[checksum]&md5=[checksum]&romnom=[exact url encoded filename] [filename]

The last example combines two of the checksum options and even the "romnom" option which is "rom name" in French (this is a screenscraper thing, not a Skyscraper thing). You obviously only need one of the checksum options, it's just to show that you can combine them if you really need to.

The '--query' option is clearly an "experts only" option, but for those that like to go down the rabbit hole, I am your humble servant. Down you go... :D

And happy scraping! :)

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