Overview
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-This tool can:
+This tool will:
- screenscrape the commodities trading screen
- produce the results as a tab separated values file
- upload the results to the YARRG and PCTB servers
To screenscrape and upload to both servers, select `trade
commodities' from the hold of a vessel or building, and run:
./yarrg
-Currently we upload to the dedicated yarrg server yarrg.chiark.net,
-and also to pctb.ilk.org (the testing instance of the PCTB database,
-pending approval from the operators of the main server).
+We upload to the dedicated yarrg server http://yarrg.chiark.net/,
+and also to the PCTB server http://pctb.crabdance.com/.
Or, for example, for a tab-separated values dump:
./yarrg --tsv >commods.tsv
On other Linux distros the packages may have different names, but
these should be roughly right for Debian and its derivatives. You can
install them with this rune:
- sudo apt-get install build-essential libnetpbm10-dev netpbm libx11-dev libxtst-dev libpcre3-dev tk8.4 libxml-parser-perl libjson-perl
+ sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential libnetpbm10-dev netpbm libx11-dev libxtst-dev libpcre3-dev tk8.4 libxml-parser-perl libjson-perl
The supplied helper programs
ypp-sc-tools and YARRG are
Copyright (C) 2009 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
-Copyright (C) 2009 Stephen Early
-Copyright (C) 2009 Clare Boothby¬
+Copyright (C) 2009 Clare Boothby
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of