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Skyscraper Enhanced and Reloaded

The powerful and highly customizable scraping-tool to maintain your gamelists!

This repo is the official successor of Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper.

Key New Features at a Glance

  • Verified to compile and run on Linux, macOS and Windows
  • Commandline Bash completion on Linux systems
  • Platforms to scrape can be added via configuration files
  • Several more platforms added and supported out-of-the-box
  • Support for EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) Gamelist format
  • Scraping of game manuals as PDF
  • Welcoming the 10th scraping module: Ingest GameBase DB data
  • Support for XDG Base Directory standard
  • Various configuration options added to fine-tune scraping and Gamelist creation
  • The extensive Skyscraper documentation is available in mkdocs/material layout and can be easily searched

See also all new features

Backstory

This fork is based on commit 654a31b (2022-10-26) from Detain's fork, which was a short-lived fork of Skyscraper project after Lars retired his project.

Skyscraper focuses on RetroPie integration but it can also be used without RetroPie. However, the RetroPie-Setup has a scriptmodule to install this Skyscraper fork.

In essence Skyscraper only relies on a Std-C++17 toolchain and the Qt framework (Version 5 onwards).

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