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Scraper can't auto resolve near-exact matches?

Open Jakobud opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments
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The following screenshot is an example of a scraper result.

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Filename is Air Zonk (U) [H1].PCE. It finds the result "Air Zonk".

How come it asks me to confirm this? It's almost an exact match to the filename. I shouldn't have to manually verify stuff like this.

Am I doing something wrong or is this just how it works?

Jakobud avatar Jan 04 '18 20:01 Jakobud

Just thinking more about this, it seems like there should be some sort of threshold in the matching algorithm that will automatically Scrap and Save metadata for a game if the match is above the threshold.

For example, lets say we have a theoretical game file called "Super Baseball.zip". If it comes up with the following matches:

Super Baseball Super Mario Bros 2 Baseball Simulator 1000

The scraper should be smart enough to detect the difference between these matches. It should know that Super Baseball has probably double the probability of being a correct match compared to the other 2 possible matches.

Just my thoughts. I'm not sure how the whole scraping thing works.

Jakobud avatar Jan 05 '18 07:01 Jakobud