[Request] Ability to scrap from screenscrapper

[bphenriques]

Hello,

I am starting to self-host and one of my meta-goals in the process is to reduce the number of dependencies per service. For example. I noticed that romm requires an account to https://www.igdb.com/ which in turns requires a twitch account. I don't have account in neither place.

I am used to emulationstation scrapper which is far from perfect but is good enough for me and does not require an account (https://www.screenscraper.fr/). I do know that it suffers a lot from rate-limitting but that is tolerable during the initial setup. Plus, this approach may only apply to retro-gaming which is my case, not modern games.

For context my setup:

• Rom folder which contains all the usual folders.
• Use syncthing to syncronize each folder to the corresponding one according to the device (in my case, Emudeck and ArkOS). I know that romm is considering syncting as a feature, which something that I might consider (albeit I like having dedicated tools for the job unless romm can setup syncthing for me).
• Trying to setup webrcade. Unfortunately serving locally does not work, so I am looking at romm for cloud storage and scrapping. Which may suit my needs in the future (keep roms and romhacks separate and make metadata uniform across all devices).

Above all, thank you for the project 🙇

Related:

• [Feature] Option to manually match custom rom folder vs IGDB Platform/system #514 (comment)
• Add RomM as a cloud storage source webrcade/webrcade#167

[gantoine]

Most of this issue is duplicated in others, so I'm going to close this in favor of those. Feel free to +1 those issues or add comments.

#212