screenscraper.fr - Login not work currently ?

[DjDiabolik]

Describe the bug
After editing my current CONFIG.INI on screenscraper section i have uncommented the "userCreds=" value whit my current login.
i have put in this mode:

[screenscraper]
userCreds="myuser:mypassword"

Apparently when i lauch SkyScraper there's no login....... i can check that because whit an valid account the my daily quota limit it's 20.000 insted whitout login the same limit drop to 10.000.
I can see clearly the login it's not work...... infact i can see the limit it's set to 10.000.

To Reproduce
Add a login and try..... apparently there's no work.

Technical information

• Skyscraper version: 3.7.7 compiled from source by retropie_setup.sh
• Internet connection: Italian FTTH and my PC connected by LAN
• OS: Ubuntu X64 installed on a Intel NUC VM40B
• OS Version 22.04.1

[spilinek]

Screenscraper login is working for me. The daily limit is showing as 20,000. Also when I check Screenscraper site I see my scrapes for today is correct.

I'm using Skyscraper 3.7.7-5 from this fork https://github.com/detain/skyscraper

I checked my config.ini and I'm also using:

[screenscraper]
userCreds="myuser:mypassword"

[spilinek]

I think you can add --verbosity 3 to your Skyscraper command to get more details on why the login isn't working.

[DjDiabolik]

@spilinek so wait a moment but you have installed a potentially not ufficial fork of skyskraper ok ?

I look and it's apparently contain a most recent respect this source........

Anyway yes........ on my case i can see clearly the daily limit set as 10,000 and it's the cause i thinks my login it's not works.
For use --verbosity 3 i need to try to launch skyscraper not from retropie_setup but directly from terminal..... need some more test :)

[spilinek]

@DjDiabolik muldjord's README.md recommends the fork from detain:

Pull Requests are not currently accepted as I am focusing on other projects. If you are looking for a more community driven fork that seeks to expand the current feature set beyond what I've implemented here, you should check out this fork.

I was recently troubleshooting a request for screenscraper that wasn't working. The --verbosity 3 parameter doesn't help much. I ended up modifying the code to print the URL request sent to screenscraper. Then I pasted the URL in a web browser to see the JSON response from screenscraper. Turns out there were no region names for the ROM. Workaround is to use --region ss where 'ss' is short for screenscraper. That will attempt to match the internal ROM name.

[DjDiabolik]

@spilinek the changed on readme.md it's slighty recent.
I have read this after i open this issue.............

about using verbosity.. i don't understand it's can help me to understand because my correct login it's not accepted ?

why would it help to use of --region ss ?

[spilinek]

When you run Skyscraper do you see something like below? This should indicate that you've successfully logged into screenscraper.

Fetching limits for user 'username', just a sec...
Setting threads to 6 as allowed for the supplied user credentials.

[DjDiabolik]

When you run Skyscraper do you see something like below? This should indicate that you've successfully logged into screenscraper.

Fetching limits for user 'username', just a sec...
Setting threads to 6 as allowed for the supplied user credentials.

no... if i remember no....... i can see only the daily limit it's setted as 10.000 and this limit it's when you use the database whitout login user...

Whit login user the limit it's 20.000.....

Anyway i don't have a payed account so, in theory, i don't have the multithread enabled..... only the daily limit at 20.000 because i'm logged in :)