After three years of loyal service, it was time to update our premium scraping service for our patrons. After spending an entire weekend caching nearly 100,000 “scraps,” we’re happy to announce that two brand-new servers are now online.

As a reminder, patrons benefit from a premium scraping service (in addition to the traditional Screenscraper servers), which allows them to auto-scrape by hovering over games, use the Recalbox servers for record-fast scraping, and perform a full scrape to automatically fetch media for their entire library through the Recalbox servers.

This week, two new premium Recalbox servers are going live, each with 2 Gb/s bandwidth. In concrete terms, this means unmatched scraping speed!

Around 100,000 scraps have been cached

For example, in the header image of this article, Fabrice tested scraping all CD-based games supported by a Raspberry Pi 5 — that’s 10,400 titles… including 12,064 images and 7,094 videos totaling 35.96 GB — all downloaded in just 13 minutes and 30 seconds!

Of course, results may vary depending on your connection and hardware, but this boost will certainly save you precious time when adding new games (especially full romsets), letting you enjoy your fully scraped library even faster.

To benefit from these new servers, there’s nothing you need to do — simply select the “recalbox” servers in your scraping options (patrons only).

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