Artie Scraper - Light and Fast Artwork Scraper [v2.0.0]

[guy0nabuffal0]

Same for me. Doesnt open.

[milouk]

Artie v4.0.0 — The Big One

The biggest Artie update yet. New features, a completely reworked settings system, and a ton of under-the-hood improvements that make everything faster and more reliable.

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What’s New

Themes — Dark and light mode, switchable from settings. Your handheld, your vibe.

Offline Mode — No Wi-Fi? No problem. Browse your entire ROM library and all previously scraped media without touching the network.

Video Scraping — Artie now downloads gameplay videos (.mp4) straight from ScreenScraper.

Refine Search — When auto-matching can’t find your ROM, an on-screen keyboard pops up so you can search by name and pick the correct game yourself. No more mystery unmatched ROMs.

Per-System Batch Selection — Before a batch scrape, pick exactly which systems you want. Skip what you don’t need, scrape what you do.

Hold-to-Scroll — Hold the D-pad and fly through your lists. Smooth, fast navigation across all screens.

Full In-App Settings — Log level, region priority (all 7 regions), image mask paths, and more — all configurable without ever touching a config file.

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Under the Hood

Zero config files needed — The old config.json is gone. Everything lives in settings.json, fully managed in-app. Existing installs migrate automatically on first launch.

Rock-solid API handling — Safe dictionary access across the entire scraper layer. No more crashes on weird or incomplete API responses.

Fixed multi-thread race condition — Batch scraping with multiple threads could previously mix up game IDs, causing videos to download for the wrong ROM. Fixed.

Better resource management — Images are properly closed after processing, cache keys are deterministic across sessions, and retry logic handles gzip decompression failures gracefully.

Cleaner codebase — Dead code removed, imports consolidated, constants extracted. Leaner and easier to maintain going forward.

Updated README — Full documentation rewrite covering every feature, every control, every setting.

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Full compatibility with all previous Artie installations. Just install the new .muxapp and you’re good to go.

Grab it here: Tags · milouk/artie · GitHub

[granville]

App isn’t launching on my RG34XX. Tried a fresh install, and still no luck. Just getting “Loading application” and then nothing.

Based on the log.txt file, it looks like the ROMs base path that is set is incorrect:

/mnt/sdcard/ROMS

instead of:

/mnt/mmc/ROMS

At least that’s what it looks like on my end.

[milouk]

i just release v4.0.1 with a hotfix, can you please retry?

[sahil]

Great. It’s an amazing update!

[milouk]

thanks a lot, glad you enjoy it

[sahil]

Yeah, btw i didn’t know muOS supported video preview lol. I will try to add it in scrappy too!

[xonglebongle]

We don’t support video previews. Please see the following.

Why we won't support Video Previews

First of all we understand that video previews are popular and that many users enjoy them. However, we have deliberately chosen not to include video previews in our design, and we have no plans to add them in the future. This decision is based on the MustardOS core design philosophy, to promote exploration and discovery of your games, ports, and other content. We believe that part of the joy in gaming comes from trying things out for yourself. Video previews can often reveal too much, spoili…

[granville]

Just tested the hotfix with my RG34XX, and it’s still not launching.

Now it seems to be hanging on the “Loading Application” message altogether. The system freezes and I have to use the ‘Safe-Reboot’ keybind.

Went into settings.json and set my username and password, and manually set threads to 1.

Here’s my log.txt, with mode set to debug, after waiting a few minutes:

requests/__init__.py:86: RequestsDependencyWarning: Unable to find acceptable character detection dependency (chardet or charset_normalizer).
2026-04-08 15:53:11,697 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Cache manager initialized with cache directory: .cache
2026-04-08 15:53:11,698 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Artie Scraper v4.0.1 initialized
2026-04-08 15:53:11,698 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Starting application from: /mnt/mmc/MUOS/application/Artie/.artie
2026-04-08 15:53:11,698 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Display: 720x480
2026-04-08 15:53:11,699 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Loaded settings from /mnt/mmc/MUOS/application/Artie/.artie/settings.json
2026-04-08 15:53:11,701 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - ROMs path: /mnt/mmc/ROMS
2026-04-08 15:53:11,701 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Configuration loaded: user=granville, threads=1, systems=103
2026-04-08 15:53:11,705 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Image processor initialized
2026-04-08 15:53:11,759 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Validating API credentials and configuring threads...
2026-04-08 15:53:11,762 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - PERFORMANCE: Initialized optimized HTTP session with connection pooling
2026-04-08 15:53:21,652 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Found explicit success indicators, skipping error detection
2026-04-08 15:53:21,653 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - API credentials validated - User: Unknown, Level: 10, Max threads: 2
2026-04-08 15:53:21,653 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Thread configuration: 1 threads
2026-04-08 15:53:21,933 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Joystick detected: muOS-Keys
2026-04-08 15:53:21,934 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Attempting to initialize pygame display...
2026-04-08 15:53:22,119 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Pygame display initialized: 720x480 (internal 640x480)

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[milouk]

can you check this version please? (I don’t own a rg34xx so its hard for be to debug. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hSqXSALYqcbauuLFvOiQfd-oyRD4Qm9n/view?usp=sharing

[milouk]

it should be fixed now with version v4.0.2

[sahil]

Hey, I just installed this app on my rg35xx plus and when i tried to launch it, it stucked on loading application. It’s been 2 minutes now on this screen.

Logs-
requests/init.py:86: RequestsDependencyWarning: Unable to find acceptable character detection dependency (chardet or charset_normalizer).
2026-04-11 14:25:49,973 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Cache manager initialized with cache directory: .cache
2026-04-11 14:25:49,973 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Artie Scraper v4.0.2 initialized
2026-04-11 14:25:49,974 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Starting application from: /mnt/mmc/MUOS/application/Artie/.artie
2026-04-11 14:25:49,974 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Display: 640x480
2026-04-11 14:25:49,974 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - No settings file found, using defaults
2026-04-11 14:25:49,975 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - ROMs path: /mnt/mmc/ROMS
2026-04-11 14:25:49,976 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Configuration loaded: user=(none), threads=10, systems=103
2026-04-11 14:25:49,977 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Image processor initialized
2026-04-11 14:25:50,263 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Joystick detected: muOS-Keys
2026-04-11 14:25:50,264 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Attempting to initialize pygame display…
2026-04-11 14:25:50,370 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Pygame display initialized: 640x480 (internal 640x480)

[r3tr0k3r]

It also stucked on my RG40XX-H

[sahil]

Which one to install?

[joyrows]

Not working on my RG35XX-SP. It seems to be failing while trying to read ScreenScraper credentials. settings.json also isn’t being created on install so I can’t set my credentials.

Here is the log when I try to open Artie:

requests/__init__.py:86: RequestsDependencyWarning: Unable to find acceptable character detection dependency (chardet or charset_normalizer).
2026-04-13 13:19:28,089 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Cache manager initialized with cache directory: .cache
2026-04-13 13:19:28,089 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Artie Scraper v4.0.3 initialized
2026-04-13 13:19:28,089 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Starting application from: /mnt/mmc/MUOS/application/Artie/.artie
2026-04-13 13:19:28,090 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Display: 640x480
2026-04-13 13:19:28,090 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - No settings file found, using defaults
2026-04-13 13:19:28,091 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - ROMs path: /mnt/mmc/ROMS
2026-04-13 13:19:28,091 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Configuration loaded: user=(none), threads=10, systems=103
2026-04-13 13:19:28,092 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Image processor initialized
2026-04-13 13:19:28,385 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Joystick detected: muOS-Keys
2026-04-13 13:19:28,386 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Attempting to initialize pygame display...
2026-04-13 13:19:28,428 - ArtieScraperLogger - INFO - logger:log_info:191 - Pygame display initialized: 640x480 (internal 640x480)

While the app is hanging, if I force close Artie (using menu + start) it prints this error:

[ARTIE] Please configure your ScreenScraper credentials.