While searching for a suitable replacement for ComicRack, I came across YACReader and saw that that too is having problems scraping data from ComicVine. I found a post in their forum:
There is fix for this without the need of a new release.
Step 1: add COMIC_VINE_BASE_URL entry to your YACReaderLibrary.ini config file
[ComicVine]
COMIC_VINE_API_KEY=your_api_key
COMIC_VINE_BASE_URL=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api
YACReaderLibrary.ini can be found in these locations
macos
/Users/yourusername/Library/Application\ Support/YACReader/YACReaderLibrary/YACReaderLibrary.ini
windows
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\YACReader\YACReaderLibrary\YACReaderLibrary.ini
linux
it depends on your distro, it should be in your home directory
Step 2: only for windows, download openssl binaries zip, extract it and put libeay32.dll[/] and ssleay32.dll in YACReader's installation folder.
indy.fulgan.com/SSL/openssl-1.0.2k-i386-win32.zip
Step 3: delete COMIC_VINE_BASE_URL entry when a new release of YACReader will be released.
So that made me wonder, would fixing the ComicVine Scraper for ComicRack be as simple as that? I'm just not sure where to make the changes for this one.
This plugin (and the library organizer one) has been the only thing keeping me using ComicRack, since its so much better and easier than moving and renaming everything manually. I'd hate to see it die, too.