Vidsnap Scraper 0.4.10

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

Is this still working ? Thinking of giving it a try.

 

4 hours ago, Partiesplayin said:

Is this still working ? Thinking of giving it a try.

 

You're welcome to try, but it appears to not be working anymore. I'll have to investigate sorry.

I would love it if someone could fix it, I've been using it in the past, and it was a godsend...

I tried peeping in the source and gpting it, but alas, I'm dumb 🤣🤣

On 12/13/2024 at 6:49 AM, Partiesplayin said:

Is this still working? Thinking of giving it a try.

 

 

17 hours ago, izzishor said:

I would love it if someone could fix it, I've been using it in the past, and it was a godsend...

I tried peeping in the source and gpting it, but alas, I'm dumb🤣🤣

 

On 12/13/2024 at 11:29 AM, maikeru1986 said:

You're welcome to try, but it appears to not be working anymore. I'll have to investigate sorry.

@Partiesplayin @izzishor I've uploaded a new version, which seems to be working correctly on my side. Please have a try and see if it works for you.

If it does work now, please check your local drive for a "videos" folder, and within that check for platform folders containing the videos you've previously attempted to download.

It works, it had a problem 'finding videos' before, now it worked 🫶 Thank you!

1 hour ago, izzishor said:

It works, it had a problem 'finding videos' before, now it worked 🫶 Thank you!

just for curiousity, what was the 'finding videos' problem?

Its working thanks

Thank you, it works again but:

- It doesn't always search (even though the video is on YT)
- It happens that I find a completely different video (name) than the name of the game hmm

The Question is whether it will be possible in the future:
Choice of quality, although 720p currently downloads in 480p max, even if the video is in 1080p, it's better than nothing, but...

2 hours ago, KRI$85 said:

Thank you, it works again but:

- It doesn't always search (even though the video is on YT)

if the game has a video url in the metadata it will download that instead and not search. not sure if all videos are from youtube still.

2 hours ago, KRI$85 said:

- It happens that I find a completely different video (name) than the name of the game hmm

The Question is whether it will be possible in the future:
Choice of quality, although 720p currently downloads in 480p max, even if the video is in 1080p, it's better than nothing, but...

not sure about the game name thing, it never really happens to me. its itended for windows games mainly and those generally get found quite well. ill think about it but not sure ill come up with a solution.

Its not the first time someone mentions the quality issue. previous versions only downloaded the best quality but video sizes would be large,but I think it may be best to go back to that? if you are trimming videos as well that could also maybe have an effect, i think it may be re encoded. I will have to relook at the code as well as yt-dlp and ffmpeg updates.

Are you saying that all your videos are in 480p?

21 hours ago, KRI$85 said:

Thank you, it works again but:

- It doesn't always search (even though the video is on YT)
- It happens that I find a completely different video (name) than the name of the game hmm

The Question is whether it will be possible in the future:
Choice of quality, although 720p currently downloads in 480p max, even if the video is in 1080p, it's better than nothing, but...

@KRI$85 I uploaded a new version, which I believe corrects the quality issue, but I think you're right: I will implement a simple resolution selection in the future.

Still not sure about the search or video name thing, though. Could be videoURL in launchbox but not quite sure.