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"yarrg" screenscraper for YARRG and PCTB

There is an obsolete screenscraper for Linux, known as "yarrg". It is much slower and less reliable than JARRG. We recommend you use JARRG instead.

Instructions for using obsolete "yarrg"

The current official version of the yarrg screenscraper can browsed here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/ . See particularly the YARRG README.

To install the client, install the "git" version control system and the other dependencies listed in the "Installation requirements" section of the README and then run: 

git-clone http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/.git ypp-sc-tools
cd ypp-sc-tools
cd yarrg
make
this will download the code into the directory ypp-sc-tools, and build the software. (If your Linux is very up to date you may find that it complains that it doesn't know the command git-clone. In that case, use git clone, with a space, instead.)

When new versions of the upload client are released, you can: 

cd .../ypp-sc-tools
git-pull
cd yarrg
make
to fetch the new version. (Again, you may need git pull instead of git-pull.)

Windows and MacOS

The yarrg scraper would be almost impossible to port to Windows. In any case it is obsolete.

YARRG is Yet Another Revenue Research Gatherer, a project of the crew Special Circumstances on the Cerulean Ocean and of the Sinister Greenend Organisation.

YARRG is Free Software. You may share and modify the code and the website, according to the terms of the GNU General Public Licence and the GNU Affero General Public Licence respectively (v3 or later). Note that there is NO WARRANTY. Please see the YARRG Development webpage for details of how to obtain the client and server code and full details of the licences.

YARRG is Copyright 2009 Ian Jackson, Clare Boothby, Steve Early, Naath Cousins. Yohoho and Puzzle Pirates are trademarks of Three Rings and are used without permission. YARRG is not endorsed or sponsored by Three Rings.