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PC Game Scrapper View File P 🎮 PC Game Scraper for LaunchBox PC Game Scraper is a robust metadata and media scraping plugin for LaunchBox. It intelligently prioritizes Steam for PC game metadata and IGDB for console titles, while leveraging SteamGridDB for high-quality frontend artwork and YouTube for video trailers. It also features advanced integration with HowLongToBeat (via FlareSolverr) to populate custom fields with game completion times. ⚠️ Disclaimer This plugin scrapes data from third-party sources (Steam, IGDB, SteamGridDB, HowLongToBeat). Please be aware that both FlareSolverr and yt-dlp are frowned upon by some services for their respective uses. Use them responsibly and at your own discretion. ✨ Key Features 🧠 Smart Metadata Scanning PC Mode: Prioritizes Steam Store data, falling back to IGDB if the game isn't found on Steam. Console Mode: Scrapes directly from IGDB, perfect for emulated platforms. Gap Filling: Automatically checks IGDB to fill missing fields that Steam doesn't provide (e.g., Series, Age Rating, ESRB). 🎨 High-Quality Artwork Seamless Integration: Pulls Box Art, Clear Logos, and Hero Backgrounds directly from SteamGridDB. Image Preference Options: You choose priority—prefer high-quality SGDB art over official Steam/IGDB images whenever possible. 🎬 Video Downloader Automated Downloading: Grabs trailers and gameplay automatically using yt-dlp. Smart Fallback: Tries official Steam store videos first, then searches YouTube if none are found. Configurable Quality: Support for 4K, 1080p, or 720p, with custom duration limits. ⏱️ HowLongToBeat Integration Scrapes "Main Story", "Main + Extra", and "Completionist" times and creates dedicated Custom Fields for each. Smart Categorization: Creates a Length Category custom field to sort your library into five distinct buckets: Quick: < 5 Hours Standard: 5 - 15 Hours Extended: 15 - 30 Hours Long: 30 - 60 Hours Massive: 60+ Hours Note: Requires a running instance of FlareSolverr to bypass Cloudflare protection. 🔍 Manual Search Includes a "Manual" mode to hand-pick games by ID or search term if automation fails. 📥 Installation Navigate to your LaunchBox installation folder. Open the Plugins folder. Create a new folder named PCGameScraper. Copy the plugin files (e.g., PCGameScraper.dll) into this new folder. 📹 For Video Support (Optional) To enable the video downloader features, you must place the following tools inside the PCGameScraper folder you just created: yt-dlp.exe ffmpeg.exe (Optional) cookies.txt: If YouTube blocks your requests, place a valid Netscape-formatted cookies file here. ⚙️ Configuration & Usage Select one or more games in LaunchBox. Right-click and select PC Game Scraper. Configure your settings in the menu: 🔑 API Keys (Recommended) SteamGridDB API Key: Required for high-quality box art and logos. Get one from your SGDB Profile. IGDB (Twitch) Keys: Required for Console mode and metadata gap filling. Get your Client ID and Secret from the Twitch Developer Console. 📡 Scan Modes PC Games: Best for Windows/Steam games. Checks Steam ➜ IGDB ➜ SGDB. Console / IGDB: Best for ROMs. Checks IGDB ➜ SGDB. SteamGridDB (Images Only): Skips metadata and only downloads artwork. Manual Selection: Prompts you to manually search for each game in the batch. 🖼️ Image Preference Default (Match Scan Mode): PC Mode: Downloads Steam art first, uses SGDB for anything missing. Console Mode: Downloads IGDB art first, uses SGDB for anything missing. Prioritize SteamGridDB: Always checks SteamGridDB first for Boxes, Backgrounds, and Logos. Only uses Steam/IGDB for Screenshots (gameplay) or if SGDB has no results. ⏳ HowLongToBeat Setup Install and run FlareSolverr (via Docker or Binary). Enter your local FlareSolverr URL in the plugin settings (Default: http://localhost:8191). Check the box for "Enable HLTB Scraping". Special thanks: srxz, for developing the original steam scraper your plugin saved me lots of time and was the major inspiration for this plugin. maikeru1986, for creating the vidsnap scraper which again saved me lots of time getting videos and was the major inspiration for the video download portion of the plugin (I basically ripped off your menu sorry) JOEVIKING245: a god among moderators and who seems to have INFINITE PATIENCE. Seriously this person needs more credit! 7nseccmem: for helping test the features on discord Finally Google's Gemini which wrote the whole thing. It was a team effort I promise! If you don't believe me you go try and get Gemini to do something similar see how easy it is. Submitter spiritedusual Submitted 12/28/2025 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  

Vidsnap Scraper View File DISCLAIMER: Use at your own risk! Please read and understand Youtube's terms of service. I will not be held liable for any misuse of any product or service. Overview: This plugin makes use of the open source and unlicensed application yt-dlp (forked from youtube-dl) in conjunction with ffmpeg to download game videos. It first downloads videos from the link provided in the metadata from LaunchBox, skipping videos longer than a specified duration, and then searches for videos for missing games based on input search terms. It is intended for modern Windows games, as this was my need initially. Requirements: Launchbox 13.19 or newer. (Use version 0.5.1 for older Launchbox installations) ytdlp (included in .zip) ffmpeg (included in .zip) Installation Instructions: Extract the contents of the .zip folder and place it in your LaunchBox plugins folder. Usage Instructions: Select a game or multiple games, right-click, and select "Download Video Snap." Select desired quality. Adjust the maximum duration if desired. The "Get Missing Videos" checkbox sets whether or not to search for videos of games that don't have URL's in their metadata. The "Trim videos" checkbox sets whether or not to trim videos after they have been downloaded. Enter desired search terms for missing videos. Click "Start" to start the download process. Games will download asynchronously. Resuming downloads is also supported natively. Other: PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT A DEVELOPER! I know very little about C# and programming in general, so I probably won't be able to address many issues that you may face. That being said, I will try and fix things where I can. I've provided the spaghetti source code for anyone to modify, improve, etc. (it seems you need to unblock the forms in the "Resources" folder -> RMB->properties->unblock.) As of now, I'm more comfortable with the usability of the plugin; however, there are still probably many issues. Any comments to provide insight/improvement to the code, etc. would be much appreciated. Thanks to @srxz for his source of Youtube Scraper, on which this is based. Credits: @srxz @JoeViking245 @C-Beats maikeru86 Submitter maikeru1986 Submitted 12/16/2020 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins  

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Youtube Scraper View File Simple Plugin to automate download videos from youtube. Requirements: Launchbox 8.2+ Install: Extract the content of zip file to : Launchbox/plugins/YoutubeScraper Source code: Github (feel free to make a pull request ) EDIT If you have trouble running the plugin and crashing due CAS error, please right click on the DLL's , properties and then unblock. There's two options: URL Scraper: Just paste entire youtube URL from the desired video One-click downloader: It will search automatically and download the first entry from youtube. Bulk Download supported! Submitter srxz Submitted 05/10/2017 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins

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So I tried both manually adding, and dropping/dragging a few game shortcuts, They find them when searching for metadata. They launch/play just fine. but no matter what the art, box art. nothing shows up even after refreshing. what am I doing wrong? also, other topic Does big box mode support any kind of youtube, netflix, hulu or anything like that? I rather not use Kodi cause thats a hot mess to get going. one more question, does big box have a shortcut to end any game/program? even Pc games? In retrobat you can hold L + R + Start + Select to end any game that's running. thanks if you can help with some of this. Edit: I added a gif to show what happens.

YouTube & Arcade Video Snap Downloader View File I have created my own YouTube & Arcade Snap / Videopreview downloader. It's not super pretty but works pretty well. Arcade is perfect because i use progettosnaps direct download, consoles are OK'ish... i currently try to limit the search results to one provider to eliminate false positives. So if that channel doesn't have the video for your game, you might get something strange... BUT I ADDED A SKIP BUTTON! If you know any other youtube channels that provide game previews than arcade forever feel free to leave a comment and i'll take a look at it Installation: Unzip the file and put the folder in your Launchbox/Plugins/ dir. Usage : Rightclick a game or games and choose get snaps, click yes for consoles etc., click no for arcade / mame. Hit Download, wait, done. Btw. if you're wondering why there is an .exe file... well i'll probably make it standalone too to scan the whole library and im lazy so i didn't want to start two projects I have uploaded a video of it in action here: Submitter Izegod Submitted 05/18/2017 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins

Are we allowed to ask for each other's youtube channel? Especially if it's souly gaming and emulation? I would like to know and check out other channels and their content is all thanks in adfvance...

Check it out. Sorry about the audio, I am new to editing videos. Keep up the good work!