Re: web

On 2025-01-17, yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
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Curl supports Gopher. Not Gemini though.

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Ncat and Netcat (check the existence of '-c' and '-T') can fetch stuff
from Gemini servers:
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$ printf 'gemini://geminiprotocol.net/\r\n' \
| ncat --ssl geminiprotocol.net 1965 | less
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$ printf 'gemini://geminiprotocol.net/\r\n' \
| nc -c -T noverify geminiprotocol.net 1965 | less
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Wrapping that in some hands full of AWK to find links and iterate over
them should not require deep magic.
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Some browsers capable of accessing gemini: can save the fetched files'
and gemini pages' source, maybe they would even be easier to integrate
in own scripts?
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TL;DR: There is no showstopper.
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gem.awk (a gemini client written with gawk+openssl) works like that

I expanded it with some nice features

another one I'd like it's one to batch-dl a full phlog, easy to do
with basename, mkdir -p and a for loop iterating the array of links.