Minui-scraper NPM

🎨 minui-scraper

Node version

Artwork scraper for MinUI.

!NOTE MinUI does't officially support boxarts, but still has some support for it as stated by its author.

Features:

Requires Node.js, and optionally Ollama for AI matching.

This tool works with a Command Line Interface (CLI), and need to be installed and run from a terminal application.

Install the CLI globally with:

npm install -g minui-scraper

To run the scraper, open a terminal and use the following command:

mscraper <rompath> [options]

!TIP Max width must be adjusted depending of the device, the default works well for Trimui Brick. For 640x480 devices, try with --width 200.

-w, --width <size>: Max width of the image (default: 300)
-h, --height <size>: Max height of the image
-t, --type <type>: Type of image to scrape (can be boxart, snap, title, box+snap, box+title) (default: boxart)
-a, --ai: Use AI for advanced matching (default: false)
-m, --ai-model <name>: Ollama model to use for AI matching (default: gemma2:2b)
-r, --regions <regions>: Preferred regions to use for AI matching (default: World,Europe,USA,Japan)
-f, --force: Force scraping over existing images
--cleanup: Removes all scraped images in target folder
--verbose: Show detailed logs
-v, --version: Show current version

mscraper myroms --width 300 --ai

This will scrape the ROMs in the myroms folder with a max image width of 300 and using AI for advanced matching.

The following systems are supported for scraping:

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