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[ANN] gemget, a gemini downloader

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Tue May 5 19:56:16 BST 2020

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Ahoy!

I'm really happy to see that somebody has written something like this,it's something I've thought would be handy for a long time.  In my mind,a program like this is an ideal solution to the usability problemspeople have cited with rare things like downloading konpeito.mediareleases using the more interactive clients.

I'd love to give this a spin, but it's not building for me - or rather,the github.com/schollz/progressbar dependency isn't building.  Which isprobably just my "ancient" Debian stable version of Go...

Cheers,Solderpunk

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 04:22:17PM +0000, Cole Anthony Capilongo wrote:
> Hello Geminauts!
> 
> I found out about Gemini through the recent Hacker News post, and I
> couldn't resist exploring and making something for it.
> 
> I'm using both Castor and Bombadillo for browsing Gemini, and neither
> of them really did what I wanted in terms of downloading. There's no
> indication of progress, so it feels a bit like the client has frozen
> up, until I see the file saved, or some application open.
> 
> For that and other reasons, I decided to create a command line
> downloader for Gemini, similar to wget but much simpler at the moment.
> It's available at https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemget/
> and is written in Go, with binaries available.
> 
> I'm somewhat new to Go and Gemini, so I'd appreciate any suggestions
> or bug reports a lot.
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> makeworld
>