[ANN] Garden Gnome Society!

[Lokesh Krishna]

On 4 December 2020 12:40:07 pm IST, "Björn Wärmedal" <bjorn.warmedal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brilliant work, Björn! I try to water another community garden plant
>> each day, but I usually have to pick a bunch of them at random before I
>> find one that needs watering. Thanks for making this a MUCH easier
>> process.
>
>Thank you, Gary! It was exactly that problem I intended to solve :)
>
>> This is awesome! I know botany from the tildeverse, but have never used
>> it! I was wondering, could you, or someone else, teach me how to attach
>> my output from astrobotany to my index page of my gemini capsule?
>
>Hey, Vidak! Good question, and I'm happy to help :)
>
>It's surprisingly simple, actually! There are a few curl-like command
>line utilities for gemini out there. When I was planning on making
>this I looked at https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemget at
>first. It ended up not working for me for two reasons: it doesn't
>(yet) support client certificates -- which AstroBotany requires to let
>you walk the community garden or visit your own plant -- and the Go
>version on my Raspberry Pi was incompatible (that's probably a
>solvable problem, but I would still need the client cert support).
>
>I ended up writing my own in python3:
>https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemget
>
>Python3 is great for me, because it works on my laptop and my RPi
>without needing to compile anything. This tool is *really* basic for
>now. There's no error checking, it decodes everything to UTF-8 before
>pushing it to stdout, and the response header line is included in the
>output. And there's no server cert validation of any kind (i.e. no
>known-hosts database). But it works for the purpose of fetching
>AstroBotany info!
>
>Basically: find where your browser keeps your client cert, run
>"gemcall -c <path to cert> -k <path to cert key> -u
>gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/app/plant" and you'll get text output. Be
>sure to not have the colour setting turned on for that client cert, as
>that will ruin the experience for some people visiting your capsule.
>Then you just have to figure out which lines from the output you want!
>Put it in a cron job or systemd.timer if you can, and it's fully
>automated.
>
>Cheers,
>ew0k

Hello,


>I ended up writing my own in python3:
>https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemget

Um, it looks like you linked to gemget again. Could you please link to the one you created because I too would love to be able to do this.

Thanks!
― Lokesh Krishna