slipsystem Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Legit MobyGames Scraper View File IMPORTANT all restrictions on the MobyGames Api are in place: an API key is required to use this plugin. DO NOT REQUEST AN API KEY FROM MOBYGAMES TO USE THIS PLUGIN. THEY ARE NO LONGER GIVING OUT KEYS TO USE THIS, THEY HAVE NOT REQUESTED TO REMOVE MY CODE FROM GITHUB OR REMOVE THIS POST SO PLEASE DO NOT STIR THE POT. Sharing of your API key will only be doing yourself a disservice, as well as the community. There are limited requests per day enforce by MobyGames. I was given permission by @Jason Carr to post this, if I abide by MobyGames Rules. If you feel that me or any other user is not following the guidelines enforced by MobyGames or Lanchbox please feel free to send me a Private Message. Me and Most Definitely Launchbox is not responsible for the misuse of this Plugin or the changing of code. Lastly any request to remove this thread will met with open arms, I do not want to create any upset if I am in breach of the rules. DESCRIPTION this plugin was developed to provide a responsible way of using the MobyGames Api to scrape game media. Thanks to @Expello for requesting me to build this and for testing. if he/she did not agree to my terms I would not have built this plugin BUGS Alternative names(aka) is not working(i think the api does not support it) all game media is listed under Cart Front(there is no way of identifying the use of CD yet) WHATS WORKING Box Front Cart Front Box Back ScreenShot Title ScreenShot GamePlay Description(Notes) HOW TO USE Download the Plugin Extract into Plugins Folder open the MobyGamesScraper.dll.config with notepad replace YourKeyGoesHere with your ApiKey open LaunchBox right click on a game select scrape with MobyGames. or go to tools scrape with moby games BUY ME A BEER Submitter slipsystem Submitted 06/02/2017 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipsystem Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 hey Guys, I just released an update. it is now much less API Intensive and the Gui is working now, plus a few minor tweaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styphelus Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Thanks, but who the heck has their API key? Guess this can only be used by a select number of people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowayn Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 (edited) On 2017-6-12 at 6:35 PM, Styphelus said: Thanks, but who the heck has their API key? Guess this can only be used by a select number of people. Agreed, I have received an answer from the kind Simon Carless from Mobygames: Thanks! We are not permitting API use for plugin users right now because that will be a lot of work for us to individually approve API use manually for LOTS of users, sorry. We will be allowing plugins that grab images to their own database and allow Launchbox users to access them there. We have had multiple Launchbox plugin authors contact us recently so we imagine one of them will sort this out soon. Edited June 15, 2017 by Sir BLaDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajhickin Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Hi, I asked on MobyGames for an API key and I got the response - "sorry, we can't allow non-creators to use our private keys - the person who did the Launchbox plugin needs to enable it to grab our data!" Would you consider sharing your API key? I think this could be a really good scraper in addition to the LB DB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyrie0 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Any chance we can get a version that sorts the platform list in the UI? Or a source release, and I could do it myself! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subaru555 Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 Hi all, how are we able to select a certain countries release shots, as mobygames only does the one that is first in line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syllius Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 I went on Moby Games and you can pretty easily request an API key. They've provided me with one and I attempted to use the scraper. Besides setting the key in the dll.config, are there any other steps that I need to complete? I unpacked all the files into the plugins directory, but when I attempted to perform a scrape, I received the following error: "Could not load type 'Unbroken.FileHelper' from assembly 'Unbroken, Version=12.13.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'." I did happen to notice that the PublicKeyToken is set in the dll.config to "b77a5c561934e089", but the error is returning null. Any ideas how I can get this to work? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flotzky1 Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 Same problem here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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