[ANN] gemget, a gemini downloader

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

Hello,

Glad to hear you like it! And downloading from Konpeito was exactly
my use case too, it was one of my first tests.

That dependency is annoying, I don't think it's just you. I've changed
the README, the install command is now:

GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemget

Try that and let me know if it works better, you have to have at least
Go version 1.11 I think. Worst case, you can always install from a binary.

One small nitpick: Could you update the Gemini software page? It says
gemnet instead gemget. Thanks for adding it!

makeworld

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:56 PM, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:

> 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 problems
> people have cited with rare things like downloading konpeito.media
> releases 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 is
> probably 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