diff --git a/addon/yacy_irssi.pl b/addon/yacy_irssi.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use LWP::UserAgent;
+
+$VERSION = "0.01";
+%IRSSI = (
+	  authors     => "Alexander Schier",
+	  contact     => "",
+	  name        => "yacy_script",
+	  description => "A Yacy Script for Irssi",
+	  license     => "GPL",
+	  url         => "http://www.yacy-websuche.de",
+	  changed     => "Thu Mar 16 2006"
+	  );
+
+use Irssi;
+use strict;
+
+Irssi::settings_add_str("yacy_script.pl", "yacy_host", "localhost");
+Irssi::settings_add_int("yacy_script.pl", "yacy_port", 8080);
+Irssi::settings_add_str("yacy_script.pl", "yacy_user", "admin");
+Irssi::settings_add_str("yacy_script.pl", "yacy_password", "");
+
+my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
+$ua->timeout(10);
+$ua->env_proxy;
+
+sub yacy_show($$$){
+	my $host=Irssi::settings_get_str("yacy_host");
+	my $port=Irssi::settings_get_int("yacy_port");
+	my $user=Irssi::settings_get_str("yacy_user");
+	my $pass=Irssi::settings_get_str("yacy_password");
+
+	my $BASEURL="http://".$user.":".$pass."@".$host.":".$port;
+	my $response = $ua->get($BASEURL."/xml/status_p.xml");
+	my @content=$response->content;
+	my $PPM=0;
+	foreach my $line (@content){
+		if($line=~/<ppm>(.*?)<\/ppm>/){
+			$PPM=$1;
+		}
+	}
+	#Irssi::active_win->command("/me is now crawling with YaCy at $PPM pages per minute.");
+	Irssi::active_win->command("/me 's YaCy is crawling at $PPM pages per minute.");
+}  
+
+Irssi::command_bind('yacy_show', \&yacy_show);