Marmotte

This Gopher client written in Rust will be kept minimalistic.

Installation

First way

You may download the latest binary on Github's release page if available for your platform. And then copy the binary to /usr/local/bin/marmotte with the executable rights: chmod +x /usr/local/bin/marmotte.

Second way

Clone this repository and simply run this command:

make install

Usage

marmotte [url]

Available commands:

get [url]: Get this url
[index]: Follow link index
up: Go up one directory
back: Go back previous page
bk: List bookmarks
bk [index]: Follow bookmark
bk add [url]: Add bookmark
bk rm [index]: Remove bookmark
quit: Quit this program

Example:

$ marmotte
Welcome to marmotte!
Enter 'help' if you don't know how to start. Have a nice journey in the Gopherspace!

marmotte> go zaibatsu.circumlunar.space
		
		           MARE   TRANQUILLITATIS   PEOPLE'S   CIRCUMLUNAR
		    .       _____   _    ___ ____    _  _____ ____  _   _    '
		           |__  /  / \  |_ _| __ )  / \|_   _/ ___|| | | |
		             / /  / _ \  | ||  _ \ / _ \ | | \___ \| | | |
		        *   / /_ / ___ \ | || |_) / ___ \| |  ___) | |_| |
		           /____/_/   \_\___|____/_/   \_\_| |____/ \___/   .
		
		                Flagship Circumlunar Colony Est. 2018
[…]

Project features

• Handle text resources (type 0)
• Handle Gopher menus (type 1)
• Handle Gopher search (type 7)
• Go one directory up from the path (up command)
• Go back several pages before in history (backcommand)
• Save links into bookmarks
• Follow links in text/markdown resources
• Cache pages by default for fast and offline browsing
• Connect with SSL/TLS when the remote server implements it

Contributing

Do you want to contribute? Great! Please follow this guide.

License

This software is under the French free software CeCILL License which is equivalent to GNU GPL but under French Law. Author: Killian Kemps