rbxark

rbxark

rbxark is a program for archiving Roblox build files.

rbxark operates on a database (e.g. ark.db). A database has an associated config file, which either matches the name of the database (e.g. ark.db.json) or is specified explicitly with a command line option. The config_sample.json file provides a sample configuration file, with commentary.

Complete process for updating a database:

# Merge new servers from config.
rbxark merge-servers ark.db
# Merge new filenames from config.
rbxark merge-filenames ark.db
# Scan DeployHistory of servers for new builds.
rbxark fetch-builds ark.db
# Generate new combinations of build hashes and filenames.
rbxark generate-files ark.db
# Fetch just the headers of generated files.
rbxark fetch-headers ark.db
# Fetch the full content of generated files.
rbxark fetch-files ark.db

Installation

rbxark depends on go-sqlite3, which requires cgo and gcc. Check go env to make sure CGO_ENABLED is set.

Windows

On Windows, rbxark can be compiled with MSYS2. This guide assumes the MINGW64 environment is used.

Make sure MSYS2 is up to date:

pacman -Syu

Install GCC and Go:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-go

Install rbxark:

go install github.com/anaminus/rbxark