r/RetroPie • u/FluffyBumper • 5d ago

Question How do you manage skraper for large runs?

I've been using skraper (from skraper.net) and really like it. But I'm about to get to a section that will max my request limit of 20000 before it finishes. In that case, how do I manage that?

Update: The answer is the skraper program has an awesome cache. It stops when it runs out of requests but, once you have requests available again and fire it up, it just blows through what it's already done without making a bunch more requests. Seems like all the info for checksum, name, etc is stored in that cache (there are a bunch of json files, although they might be binary json because they're not readable) and I'm thinking it probably does the compare to that locally and if it matches, it moves on without hitting screenscraper.fr.

All that said - skraper is excellent - highly recommend.

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u/GoeiP91 4d ago

Donate to them for more Skraper requests lol.

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u/FluffyBumper 3d ago

See my updated post for the solution to this issue.

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u/GoeiP91 3d ago

Where's it at?

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u/FluffyBumper 3d ago

The cache folder is created in the program folder for skraper. At least on windows. I'm actually running it on a local copy instead of on my pi and then transferring the files later.

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u/GoeiP91 3d ago

Oh ok 👍🏻