Vidsnap Scraper 0.4.8

23 hours ago, jacobsson said:

@maikeru1986
Thanks for the great plugin, can't live with out it
I made an update from your source with some QoL changes, I hope you don't mind! (forgot to include yt-dlp in my former post)

• Changed so that yt-dlp now handles searching for video sections (no need to download full video anymore)
• Due to the change above, you can get footage of any hour-long "long play"/"let's play" videos in just a fraction of the time.
• Removed "EndTime" and introduced "Duration" in its place
• Some naming scheme changes and refactoring

Vidsnap_Scraper_0.4.8.zip 13.12 MB · 1 download Vidsnap-Scraper-0.4.8-source.zip 3.66 MB · 0 downloads

thats great! I dont mind at all, make changes as you please. im glad someone is taking an interest in the code/functionality part of it.

11 minutes ago, maikeru1986 said:

dont have time to test all problems, so sometimes i just mention what i would try. i did say in the post it might not work.

I don't understand. My comment was not for you, but for the other user who had uploaded a new version on his own.

23 hours ago, jacobsson said:

@maikeru1986
Gracias por el excelente complemento, no puedo vivir sin él
. Hice una actualización desde su fuente con algunos cambios en la calidad de vida, ¡espero que no le importe! (Olvidé incluir yt-dlp en mi publicación anterior)

• Se modificó para que yt-dlp ahora maneje la búsqueda de secciones de video (ya no es necesario descargar el video completo)
• Debido al cambio anterior, puede obtener imágenes de cualquier video de "larga duración"/"vamos a jugar" de una hora en solo una fracción del tiempo.
• Se eliminó "EndTime" y se introdujo "Duration" en su lugar.
• Algunos cambios en el esquema de nombres y refactorización

Vidsnap_Scraper_0.4.8.zip 13,12 MB · 1 descarga Vidsnap-Scraper-0.4.8-fuente.zip 3,66 MB · 0 descargas

I have found a bug. The name of the resulting video is not exact. It seems that there is something wrong with the file extension. That is, it creates the video correctly, but it does not result in a video file because the extension mistypes it.

@Merovingio

Make sure you have ffmpeg.exe in the plugin folder (it should ask you to download it).
If that doesn't help I think you should just resort back to using the regular version of the plugin. 

Edited December 24, 2022 by jacobsson

9 hours ago, Merovingio said:

I don't understand. My comment was not for you, but for the other user who had uploaded a new version on his own.

Hey man, I misunderstood, im truely sorry.

This plugin seems to no longer find any videos? Anyone else having this issue? It just started a few weeks ago.

Confirmeed hasnt worked for a few weeks now 

On 3/11/2023 at 3:30 PM, Surfdeign said:

This plugin seems to no longer find any videos? Anyone else having this issue? It just started a few weeks ago.

 

1 hour ago, Colpipes78 said:

Confirmeed hasnt worked for a few weeks now 

Hi There,

Try replacing the yt-dlp in the plugins folder with the latest version:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe

The new file works. Thank you!

 

You could make a change to this program to generate an MP3snap scraper,
 being able to download the main themes of the games, and helping everyone to have the music playing in the launchbox menu.
 Can anyone do this for us?

Edited January 29 by orcfael

great little app emumovies is problematic these days, need more options

Thanks a lot for this. Works well for most things, but not all.

I don't know, how exactly the search string looks like, i would think it is platform name and game name. The platform names of LB are exact but sometimes not on Youtube. I checked e.g. "Commodore Amiga" and can not find most of the videos, although they exist. I just guess, it is because on youtube the name is always only "Amiga" without "Commodore".

Wish i could edit the whole search phrase before sending it, or replace the platform name.

@Steel

The search string is the game name only + additional search terms, then there are flags for no-playlist, match-filter for duration, and quality. and thats about it. Everything after the -o flag is just where the video is saved. (game.VideoUrl at the end is nothing in this case, i think.

youtube_srch.StartInfo.Arguments = $@" ""ytsearch:{CleanInput(game.Title)} {searchTerms}"" --no-playlist --match-filter ""duration <= {maxDuration}"" -f mp4{quality} -o ""\Videos\{CleanInput(game.Platform)}\{CleanInput(game.Title)}.%(ext)s"" {game.VideoUrl}";

Take note that if there is a video already in Launchbox, then it uses that link and doesn't do any searching.

I didn't add platform-specific stuff because it was mainly just for Windows.

You could try adding Amiga only to the search terms and see if that works. but I presume you've tried that.

Video quality of the downloaded file is 360p by default, the "Best" quality option is checked. The grabbed videos got 1080p on youtube, how can I increase quality?

19 minutes ago, totoro said:

Video quality of the downloaded file is 360p by default, the "Best" quality option is checked. The grabbed videos got 1080p on youtube, how can I increase quality?

not much you can do besides modify the source, however I think it should be hd by default. maybe youtube/ youtubedlp changed something