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phetch is a terminal client designed to help you quickly navigate the gophersphere.

features

  • <1MB executable for linux and mac
  • technicolor design (based on GILD)
  • no-nonsense keyboard navigation
  • supports gopher searches, text and menu pages, and downloads
  • save your favorite gopherholes with bookmarks
  • opt-in history

usage

phetch                           launch and show start page
phetch <gopher-url>              open gopher url
phetch -r, --raw <gopher-url>    print raw gopher response
phetch -l, --local               connect to 127.0.0.1:7070
phetch -h, --help                show this screen
phetch -v, --version             show phetch version

once you've launched phetch, use `ctrl-h` to view the on-line help.

installation

binaries for linux, mac, and raspberry pi are available at https://github.com/dvkt/phetch/releases:

just unzip/untar the phetch program into your $PATH and get going!

updates

to check for new versions of phetch, you can use the on-line help system (ctrl-h) or visit:

gopher://phkt.io/1/phetch/latest

development

cargo run -- <gopher-url>

pro-tip: run a local gopher server on 127.0.0.1:7070 and start phetch with -l or --local to quickly connect to it.

screenies

DOS Archive

Menu View

Text View

todo

bugs

  • gopher://1436.ninja/1/twit.cgi ("iWritten and performed by Nathaniel" weirdness) (kitty only)
  • gopherpedia 'recent entries' weirdness (also kitty only)
  • "stream did not contain valid UTF-8" sdf.org/maps/
  • ctrl-z (suspend) doesn't work
  • gopher://alexschroeder.ch/2020-01-02_This_Gopher_Hole/menu

v1.0

  • check for updates over gopher
  • Changelog generation (for gopher and github)
  • GIF screencast
  • man page (small one)

future features

  • track binary size per release
  • text views are menus when URLs are present (one per line max)
  • Find Text in Text views
  • fuzzy find incremental search
  • persistent history
  • bookmarks: toggle instead of just prepending to the file
  • bookmarks: save the title of the current page