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ckochandClaude Opus 5 cd5c8fb24e Add Wikipedia fallback so every game has cover art
libretro-thumbnails stops at the retro consoles, leaving the ten Xbox 360
titles blank. English Wikipedia carries a cover on essentially every
notable game article and needs no account, so it now runs as a second pass
for anything libretro cannot match.

Correcting an earlier claim in this repo: libretro does publish a
"Microsoft - Xbox 360" set. I had reported it as absent after checking only
my own hardcoded system map, not the actual catalogue of 123 sets. The set
turns out to hold about a dozen entries, none of them ours, so the
conclusion held but the reason given was wrong. It is now mapped and
searched anyway, in case it fills out later.

The cover filename is read from the article's infobox rather than inferred
from file names: filtering names for "box" also matches
"Xbox-360-Pro-wController.png". Two details that cost a round each:

  * the infobox writes the field both bare ("Halo 3 final boxshot.JPG") and
    prefixed ("File:Lost-Planet-New.jpg"), so any prefix is stripped before
    exactly one is added back
  * the API returns 429 under an unthrottled loop, so calls are spaced one
    second apart, retried with a longer backoff, and cached to disk

Coverage is now 105/105 — 93 from libretro, 12 from Wikipedia.

Two rows took art of the right game but the wrong platform, because their
system field looks wrong in the source data: a Game Boy "Donkey Kong
Country 2" and a DS "Donkey Kong Country Returns". Noted in the README
rather than silently corrected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 12:04:55 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Fetch box art for the library and attach it to each game.
Art comes from libretro-thumbnails (https://thumbnails.libretro.com), a
community archive of boxart named to the No-Intro / Redump conventions. It needs
no API key, but covers retro consoles only — Xbox 360 has no thumbnail set, so
those titles are reported as unsupported rather than mismatched.
Images are pushed through the app's own POST /api/images endpoint, so they get
the same validation, WebP re-encoding and per-user filing as a manual upload.
Standard library only, so it runs without a virtualenv.
python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' --dry-run # report, change nothing
python3 fetch_art.py --password '...' # download and attach
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import difflib
import json
import re
import sys
import time
import unicodedata
import urllib.error
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request
from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import Path
THUMBNAIL_HOST = "https://thumbnails.libretro.com"
# Our system codes to libretro's DAT-derived directory names.
# Xbox 360 is deliberately absent: libretro-thumbnails has no set for it.
# Several directories may back one system code. Our "GB" covers both Game Boy
# and Game Boy Color titles — Pokemon Trading Card Game, for instance, is only in
# the Color set — so both are searched and the better match wins.
SYSTEM_DIRS = {
"NES": ["Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System"],
"SNES": ["Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System"],
"N64": ["Nintendo - Nintendo 64"],
"GB": ["Nintendo - Game Boy", "Nintendo - Game Boy Color"],
"GBA": ["Nintendo - Game Boy Advance"],
"DS": ["Nintendo - Nintendo DS"],
"GC": ["Nintendo - GameCube"],
"WII": ["Nintendo - Wii"],
"PS1": ["Sony - PlayStation"],
"PS2": ["Sony - PlayStation 2"],
"PSP": ["Sony - PlayStation Portable"],
# libretro does publish a "Microsoft - Xbox 360" set, but it is a stub of
# about a dozen entries. It is searched anyway in case it fills out later;
# in practice these titles fall through to the Wikipedia pass.
"360": ["Microsoft - Xbox 360"],
}
# Preferred release region, best first. The library is a US collection, so a USA
# release wins; a European box is better than nothing.
REGION_RANK = ["usa", "world", "usa, europe", "europe", "japan, usa", "japan"]
# Tags that mark a variant we would rather not pick when a plain release exists.
UNDESIRABLE_TAGS = (
"beta", "proto", "demo", "sample", "virtual console", "switch online",
"classic mini", "rev ", "alt", "unl", "aftermarket", "competition",
)
ROMAN = {
"i": 1, "ii": 2, "iii": 3, "iv": 4, "v": 5, "vi": 6, "vii": 7, "viii": 8,
"ix": 9, "x": 10, "xi": 11, "xii": 12, "xiii": 13, "xiv": 14, "xv": 15,
}
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Title normalisation
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def strip_accents(text: str) -> str:
"""'Pokémon' -> 'Pokemon', so our un-accented rows still match."""
return "".join(
c for c in unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", text) if not unicodedata.combining(c)
)
def normalise(title: str) -> str:
"""Reduce a title to a comparable form.
Roman numerals become digits, which is what makes our SNES 'Final Fantasy 2'
line up with the catalogued 'Final Fantasy II', and the PS1 'Final Fantasy V'
with 'Final Fantasy V' rather than drifting to a different entry.
"""
text = strip_accents(title).lower()
text = text.replace("&", " and ")
# The catalogue moves a leading article to the end: "Sims 2, The",
# "Legend of Zelda, The - Ocarina of Time". Drop it before anything else,
# while the comma that marks it is still there to find.
text = re.sub(r",\s*(the|a|an)\b", " ", text)
# libretro renders a subtitle colon as " - "; flatten both to a space.
text = re.sub(r"\s+-\s+", " ", text)
text = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", text)
words = [str(ROMAN.get(w, w)) for w in text.split()]
# Leading articles carry no signal and differ between catalogues.
while words and words[0] in ("the", "a", "an"):
words.pop(0)
return " ".join(words).strip()
@dataclass
class Candidate:
filename: str
base: str # title with all parenthetical tags removed
tags: str # the tags, lowercased, for region and variant ranking
directory: str # libretro set it came from, needed to build the download URL
@property
def region_rank(self) -> int:
for i, region in enumerate(REGION_RANK):
if region in self.tags:
return i
return len(REGION_RANK)
@property
def variant_penalty(self) -> int:
return sum(1 for tag in UNDESIRABLE_TAGS if tag in self.tags)
def parse_candidate(filename: str, directory: str) -> Candidate:
stem = filename[:-4] if filename.lower().endswith(".png") else filename
tags = " ".join(re.findall(r"\(([^)]*)\)", stem)).lower()
base = re.sub(r"\s*\([^)]*\)", "", stem).strip()
return Candidate(filename=filename, base=base, tags=tags, directory=directory)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# HTTP
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def http(url: str, *, data=None, headers=None, method=None, timeout=90) -> bytes:
request = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, method=method)
for key, value in (headers or {}).items():
request.add_header(key, value)
last_error: Exception | None = None
for attempt in range(4):
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout) as response:
return response.read()
except urllib.error.HTTPError as exc:
# 429 means we asked too fast, so back off hard and try again.
if exc.code == 429:
last_error = exc
time.sleep(5 * (attempt + 1))
continue
# Other 4xx will not improve on retry; surface immediately.
if exc.code < 500:
raise
last_error = exc
except (urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError) as exc:
last_error = exc
time.sleep(1.5 * (attempt + 1))
raise RuntimeError(f"GET {url} failed after 4 attempts: {last_error}")
def api_json(base: str, path: str, token: str | None = None, *, data=None, method=None):
headers = {"Accept": "application/json"}
if token:
headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {token}"
body = None
if data is not None:
body = json.dumps(data).encode()
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
raw = http(base + path, data=body, headers=headers, method=method)
return json.loads(raw) if raw else None
def upload_image(base: str, token: str, filename: str, blob: bytes) -> dict:
"""multipart/form-data POST, hand-rolled to avoid a requests dependency."""
boundary = "----LudosArt" + str(int(time.time() * 1000))
body = b"".join([
f'--{boundary}\r\n'.encode(),
f'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="{filename}"\r\n'.encode(),
b"Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n",
blob,
f"\r\n--{boundary}--\r\n".encode(),
])
raw = http(
base + "/api/images",
data=body,
headers={
"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}",
"Content-Type": f"multipart/form-data; boundary={boundary}",
},
)
return json.loads(raw)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Wikipedia fallback
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# libretro's coverage stops at the retro consoles — its "Microsoft - Xbox 360"
# set exists but holds only a dozen entries, none of them ours. English
# Wikipedia carries a cover image on essentially every notable game article and
# needs no account.
#
# The image is read from the article's infobox rather than guessed from file
# names: filtering names for "box" also matches "Xbox-360-Pro-wController.png".
WIKI_API = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
WIKI_UA = "LudosData/1.0 (personal game library; https://github.com/)"
WIKI_MIN_INTERVAL = 1.0 # seconds between calls; the API 429s if pushed
_wiki_last_call = 0.0
def wiki_api(**params):
"""Throttled Wikipedia API call."""
global _wiki_last_call
wait = WIKI_MIN_INTERVAL - (time.monotonic() - _wiki_last_call)
if wait > 0:
time.sleep(wait)
params.setdefault("action", "query")
params.setdefault("format", "json")
raw = http(f"{WIKI_API}?{urllib.parse.urlencode(params)}", headers={"User-Agent": WIKI_UA})
_wiki_last_call = time.monotonic()
return json.loads(raw)
def wiki_article(title: str, cache_dir: Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""(resolved title, wikitext) for a page, or None when it does not exist."""
safe = re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9._ -]", "_", title)[:120]
cache = cache_dir / "wiki" / f"{safe}.json"
if cache.exists():
blob = json.loads(cache.read_text())
return (blob["title"], blob["text"]) if blob else None
data = wiki_api(prop="revisions", rvprop="content", rvslots="main",
titles=title, redirects=1)
page = next(iter(data["query"]["pages"].values()))
result = None
if "missing" not in page and page.get("revisions"):
result = (page["title"], page["revisions"][0]["slots"]["main"]["*"])
cache.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
cache.write_text(json.dumps({"title": result[0], "text": result[1]} if result else None))
return result
def wiki_cover_url(game: dict, cache_dir: str | Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""(image URL, source description) for a game's cover, or None."""
cache_dir = Path(cache_dir)
title, year, system = game["title"], game.get("year"), game.get("system")
# Bare title first, then the disambiguated forms Wikipedia actually uses.
attempts = [title, f"{title} (video game)"]
if year:
attempts.append(f"{title} ({year} video game)")
article = None
for candidate in attempts:
found = wiki_article(candidate, cache_dir)
if found and "Infobox video game" in found[1]:
article = found
break
if not article:
return None
page_title, text = article
# Guard against landing on the film/book of the same name, or a different
# entry in the series: the article should mention the platform we hold.
if system == "360" and "Xbox 360" not in text:
return None
match = re.search(r"\|\s*image\s*=\s*([^\n|]+)", text)
if not match:
return None
filename = match.group(1).strip()
filename = re.sub(r"<!--.*?-->", "", filename).strip()
filename = filename.strip("[]| ")
# The field is written both ways: bare ("Halo 3 final boxshot.JPG") and
# prefixed ("File:Lost-Planet-New.jpg"), with or without [[ ]] around it.
# Strip any prefix so exactly one is added back below.
filename = re.sub(r"^\s*(?:File|Image)\s*:\s*", "", filename, flags=re.I).strip()
if not filename:
return None
info = wiki_api(prop="imageinfo", titles=f"File:{filename}",
iiprop="url|mime", iiurlwidth=600)
page = next(iter(info["query"]["pages"].values()))
image_info = (page.get("imageinfo") or [{}])[0]
url = image_info.get("thumburl") or image_info.get("url")
return (url, f"wikipedia:{page_title}") if url else None
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Listings
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def load_listing(system: str, cache_dir: Path) -> list[Candidate]:
"""Every candidate for a system, across all of its libretro sets.
Listings are cached on disk, so reruns and dry-runs cost nothing.
"""
candidates: list[Candidate] = []
for directory in SYSTEM_DIRS[system]:
cache = cache_dir / f"{directory}.json"
if cache.exists():
names = json.loads(cache.read_text())
else:
quoted = urllib.parse.quote(directory)
html = http(f"{THUMBNAIL_HOST}/{quoted}/Named_Boxarts/").decode(
"utf-8", errors="replace"
)
names = sorted(
{urllib.parse.unquote(m) for m in re.findall(r'href="([^"]+\.png)"', html)}
)
cache.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
cache.write_text(json.dumps(names, indent=0))
candidates.extend(parse_candidate(n, directory) for n in names)
return candidates
def contains_tokens(haystack: list[str], needle: list[str]) -> bool:
"""True when `needle` appears as a contiguous run inside `haystack`."""
if not needle or len(needle) > len(haystack):
return False
return any(
haystack[i:i + len(needle)] == needle
for i in range(len(haystack) - len(needle) + 1)
)
def best_match(title: str, candidates: list[Candidate]) -> tuple[Candidate | None, float]:
"""Highest-scoring candidate, with region and variant used as tie-breakers."""
target = normalise(title)
if not target:
return None, 0.0
target_tokens = target.split()
scored: list[tuple[float, int, int, int, Candidate]] = []
for candidate in candidates:
base = normalise(candidate.base)
score = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, target, base).ratio()
base_tokens = base.split()
extra = len(base_tokens) - len(target_tokens)
# Subtitles go missing in both directions. Our rows sometimes omit what
# the catalogue carries ("Wave Race 64" vs "Wave Race 64 - Kawasaki Jet
# Ski") and sometimes carry what it omits (our "Donkey Kong Country 2:
# Diddy's Kong Quest" vs the GBA set's "Donkey Kong Country 2"). Either
# way a clean token-run containment is a strong signal, so compare
# whichever is shorter against whichever is longer.
#
# Capped below 0.95 so a genuine exact title always outranks it, and
# scaled by coverage so the closest-length candidate wins among several
# ("Donkey Kong Country 3" beats a bare "Donkey Kong Country").
#
# Guard against collapsing a sequel onto its base game. If we are asking
# for a number the candidate does not have — "Donkey Kong Country 2"
# against a plain "Donkey Kong Country" — containment would happily match
# the wrong box. Extra numbers on the candidate side are fine, since that
# is just a series prefix ("Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island").
target_numbers = {t for t in target_tokens if t.isdigit()}
base_numbers = {t for t in base_tokens if t.isdigit()}
sequel_mismatch = bool(target_numbers - base_numbers)
shorter, longer = sorted((target_tokens, base_tokens), key=len)
if extra != 0 and not sequel_mismatch and contains_tokens(longer, shorter):
coverage = len(shorter) / len(longer)
score = max(score, 0.88 + 0.06 * coverage)
if score >= 0.80:
scored.append(
(score, -candidate.region_rank, -abs(extra), -candidate.variant_penalty, candidate)
)
if not scored:
return None, 0.0
# Similarity first, then the US release, the closest-length title, and the
# plain variant over a revision or re-release.
scored.sort(key=lambda t: (round(t[0], 3), t[1], t[2], t[3]), reverse=True)
score, _, _, _, candidate = scored[0]
return candidate, score
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Main
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument("--api", default="http://localhost:8080", help="API base URL")
parser.add_argument("--user", default="ckoch")
parser.add_argument("--password", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true", help="report matches, change nothing")
parser.add_argument("--overwrite", action="store_true", help="replace art that is already set")
parser.add_argument("--min-score", type=float, default=0.80,
help="similarity below which a match is not applied (0-1)")
parser.add_argument("--no-wikipedia", action="store_true",
help="skip the Wikipedia fallback; use libretro only")
parser.add_argument("--cache", default=str(Path(__file__).parent / ".cache"))
args = parser.parse_args()
base = args.api.rstrip("/")
cache_dir = Path(args.cache)
print("Signing in…")
auth = api_json(base, "/api/auth/login", data={"userName": args.user, "password": args.password})
token = auth["token"]
print("Fetching library…")
games: list[dict] = []
page = 1
while True:
result = api_json(base, f"/api/games?page={page}&pageSize=100", token)
games.extend(result["items"])
if page >= result["totalPages"] or not result["items"]:
break
page += 1
print(f" {len(games)} games\n")
systems = sorted({g["system"] for g in games if g["system"]})
listings: dict[str, list[Candidate]] = {}
for system in systems:
if system not in SYSTEM_DIRS:
continue
print(f"Loading {system} catalogue…", end=" ", flush=True)
listings[system] = load_listing(system, cache_dir)
print(f"{len(listings[system])} covers")
print()
applied = skipped = failed = 0
from_wiki = 0
weak: list[tuple[dict, str, float]] = []
unmatched: list[dict] = []
def attach(game: dict, blob: bytes, filename: str) -> None:
"""Upload the image and point the game at it."""
uploaded = upload_image(base, token, filename, blob)
payload = {k: game.get(k) for k in (
"title", "system", "genre", "year", "developer", "publisher",
"description", "own", "dumped", "played", "finished")}
payload["art"] = uploaded["fileName"]
api_json(base, f"/api/games/{game['id']}", token, data=payload, method="PUT")
for game in sorted(games, key=lambda g: g["title"].lower()):
title, system = game["title"], game["system"]
if game.get("art") and not args.overwrite:
skipped += 1
continue
# --- pass 1: libretro, which has the better art where it has any ----
candidate, score = (None, 0.0)
if system in SYSTEM_DIRS:
candidate, score = best_match(title, listings.get(system, []))
if candidate and score >= args.min_score:
flag = " " if score >= 0.95 else "~"
print(f" {flag} {system:4} {title[:46]:48} {score:.2f} {candidate.filename[:50]}")
if score < 0.95:
weak.append((game, candidate.filename, score))
if args.dry_run:
applied += 1
continue
try:
directory = urllib.parse.quote(candidate.directory)
name = urllib.parse.quote(candidate.filename)
attach(game, http(f"{THUMBNAIL_HOST}/{directory}/Named_Boxarts/{name}"),
candidate.filename)
applied += 1
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 - report and continue
print(f" -> FAILED: {exc}")
failed += 1
continue
# --- pass 2: Wikipedia, for anything libretro does not carry --------
if args.no_wikipedia:
print(f" ? {system:4} {title[:46]:48} no match")
unmatched.append(game)
failed += 1
continue
try:
found = wiki_cover_url(game, cache_dir)
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
print(f" ! {system:4} {title[:46]:48} wikipedia error: {exc}")
found = None
if not found:
print(f" ? {system:4} {title[:46]:48} no match")
unmatched.append(game)
failed += 1
continue
url, source = found
print(f" W {system:4} {title[:46]:48} {source[:50]}")
if args.dry_run:
applied += 1
from_wiki += 1
continue
try:
attach(game, http(url, headers={"User-Agent": WIKI_UA}), url.split("/")[-1])
applied += 1
from_wiki += 1
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
print(f" -> FAILED: {exc}")
failed += 1
# ---- report ----------------------------------------------------------
print("\n" + "=" * 72)
verb = "would attach" if args.dry_run else "attached"
print(f"{verb}: {applied} (libretro {applied - from_wiki}, wikipedia {from_wiki}) "
f"already had art: {skipped} still missing: {failed}")
if weak:
print(f"\nWorth eyeballing in the UI — matched below 0.95 similarity ({len(weak)}):")
for game, filename, score in sorted(weak, key=lambda w: w[2]):
print(f" {score:.2f} {game['system']:4} {game['title'][:40]:42} -> {filename[:50]}")
if unmatched:
print(f"\nNo cover found from either source ({len(unmatched)}):")
for game in unmatched:
print(f" {game['system'] or '-':4} {game['title']}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())