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Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

In case it gets back, I wish they implement the articles
as a gopher directory with two items, that's it:
a link to the article itself and a directory with the article images.

The article would have the images marked as [see figure1.png] or whatever.


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On 3/20/25 3:35 AM, anthk wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

..and it's back.
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On 2025-03-20, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/25 3:35 AM, anthk wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

..and it's back.

I can query searches but I can't see the articles:

gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup
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On 2025-03-20, anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

In case it gets back, I wish they implement the articles
as a gopher directory with two items, that's it:
a link to the article itself and a directory with the article images.

The article would have the images marked as [see figure1.png] or whatever.

Someone pointed out that gopherpedia.com uses clownflare for its
authoritative name servers.

$ dig -t NS gopherpedia.com
...
ns1.digitalocean.com. 103001 IN A 172.64.52.210
ns2.digitalocean.com. 103001 IN A 172.64.53.21
ns3.digitalocean.com. 103001 IN A 172.64.49.209

$ whois 172.64.52.210
...
NetRange: 172.64.0.0 - 172.71.255.255
CIDR: 172.64.0.0/13
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
NetHandle: NET-172-64-0-0-1
Parent: NET172 (NET-172-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS13335
Organization: Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUD14)

After gopherpedia.com went down for many days, i chose to write a small
shell script to format Wikipedia pages as plain text. I serve those
from my own gopher hole. This script depends on two external programs.

* suckless `fold` command
<https://dl.suckless.org/sbase/>

* webdump
<https://codemadness.org/webdump.html>

$ cat >gopherpoodia-fetch.sh <<__EOF__
#!/bin/sh
# Version 1
#
# Use suckless fold command instead of GNU coreutils.
# https://dl.suckless.org/sbase/sbase-0.1.tar.gz
#
# `fold` from GNU coreutils corrupts UTF-8.
# <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=44975>
# <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/454044/
# unicode-safe-alternative-for-fold/486428#486428>

page="$1"
if [ -z "$page" ]
then
echo "Usage: gopherpoodia-fetch.sh [Wikipedia page title or URL]"
echo ""
echo "Converts Wikipedia page to plaintext document."
echo ""
exit 1
fi

base="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"
title=${page##$base}
title=${title##/}
enctitle=$(echo "$title" | sed -e 's|/|%2F|g')
link="$base$enctitle"

agent="User-Agent: Gopherpoodia (user@stinkin.host)" api="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1"
url="$api/page/html/$enctitle"

outdir="public_gopher/wiki/"
safetitle=$(echo "$enctitle" |\
sed -e 's|%2F|-|g' -e 's|\.\.|_|g' -e 's|:|_|g') outfile="$outdir/$safetitle"

mkdir -p "$outdir"
curl -H "User-Agent: $agent" "$url" |\
webdump -l -r -w 70 -b "$base" |\
sed -e 's|/\./|/|g' |\
fold.suckless -s -w 72 >"$outfile"

echo "" >>"$outfile"
echo "From: <$link>" >>"$outfile"
__EOF__
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On 3/20/25 8:36 AM, anthk wrote:

On 2025-03-20, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/25 3:35 AM, anthk wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

..and it's back.

I can query searches but I can't see the articles:

gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup

It appears to be back up and actually displaying results now; don't know
what the issue was but glad it's back.
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On 2025-04-01, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/25 8:36 AM, anthk wrote:

On 2025-03-20, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/25 3:35 AM, anthk wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

..and it's back.

I can query searches but I can't see the articles:

gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup

It appears to be back up and actually displaying results now; don't know what the issue was but glad it's back.

Yes, indeed, thanks for the notice
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"Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid> writes:

On 3/20/25 8:36 AM, anthk wrote:

On 2025-03-20, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/25 3:35 AM, anthk wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative?

..and it's back.

I can query searches but I can't see the articles:
gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup

It appears to be back up and actually displaying results now; don't
know what the issue was but glad it's back.

I emailed the owner and let him know. All he said was he fixed it and
asked me to validate it.

i tested it, and emailed him as he asked.

Then I thanked him for a service many people use.

D
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Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:

"Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid> writes:

On 3/20/25 8:36 AM, anthk wrote:

On 2025-03-20, Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/25 3:35 AM, anthk wrote:

Now that gopher://gopherpedia.com it's down, is there any alternative? >>>>

..and it's back.

I can query searches but I can't see the articles:
gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup

It appears to be back up and actually displaying results now; don't
know what the issue was but glad it's back.

I emailed the owner and let him know. All he said was he fixed it and
asked me to validate it.

i tested it, and emailed him as he asked.

Then I thanked him for a service many people use.

D

It seems to have broken in the same way again...
--

IanJ

gopher://gopher.icu
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