first up, thank you for such an awesome tool.

i just tried again and am running into the same issue, the scraper is bombing out before it can finish. here is the exact line being output:

2015/04/12 20:13:18 INFO: Attempting lookup in MAMEDB: viprp1ot.zip
2015/04/12 20:13:18 ERR: error processing viprp1ot.zip: Get http://www.mamedb.com/game/viprp1ot: dial tcp: lookup http://www.mamedb.com on 10.182.207.200:53: dial udp 10.182.207.200:53: too many open files

the images up to the above mentioned rom have been scraped successfully and are sitting in the images folder. i even opened a couple just to be sure.

i am running it from within my mame rom directory with the following command:

./scraper -mame -thumb_only

i know that this works as it is the exact command i used to scrape the neo geo titles. i also have used your scraper to scrape just about every other console i have.

FYI, because it seems to bombing out before it is complete, i can’t seem to find the gamelist.xml file. i see it for my other scraped emu’s, right in the rom directory with the images in a “images” directory within the rom directory.

also, i have my mame106 rom on an external drive that mounts at boot. this usb hd has a mount point in my /media folder. so my mame rom folder is /media/MAME106/roms wondering if that may be the issue?

one other bit of info, if i rerun the scraper, it skips the images that it has already downloaded from the previous scrape. taken from the output on a rerun:

2015/04/12 19:27:22 INFO: Attempting lookup in MAMEDB: dstlku.zip
2015/04/12 19:27:22 INFO: Skipping images/dstlku-image.jpg
2015/04/12 19:27:22 INFO: Starting: dstlkur1.zip
2015/04/12 19:27:22 INFO: Attempting lookup in MAMEDB: dstlkur1.zip
2015/04/12 19:27:23 INFO: Skipping images/dstlkur1-image.jpg

so you can see two rom images it looks for and skips, presumably because they are already in the image folder.

i thank you so much for this GREAT tool and for any insight you may have for me. advMAME106 is the last emulator that I need scraping for (also need playstation but that’s another post).