Medium.com proxy

[Jonathan Lane]

I think this would be a lot less legally dicey if it were something you could run on your own LAN, akin to a caching proxy like Squid.  Offload the HTTP mangling and content scraping to a dedicated system and point your Gemini clients at it.


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On Saturday, February 13, 2021 2:18 PM, Waweic <waweic at activ.ism.rocks> wrote:

> On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 10:33 +0100, b10m wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> > As I see more and more fun projects arise, I hacked up a quick
> > medium.com proxy for gemini. Medium tends to offer long reads with
> > mostly just text, so it's perfect content for gemeni!
> > Have a look at gemini://b10m.net/cgi-bin/medium and paste your https
> > medium URL[1]
>
> Thanks for creating this great project, I really like it.
> Apart from the Copyright thing (it sucks) I think this project is
> really cool. If you are willing to share the source code, I would be
> hosting one instance of this over Tor (As I do with other stuff).
> I don't think there's a big difference between your platform and things
> like, for example, Invidious, Nitter, Bibliogram or even Drew Devaults
> HackerNews script. It simply makes reading a lot more pleasant.
> I really like reading in my Gemini client and it sucks that so much
> content is only published on Medium.
> I say take back the web. Copying culture is part of it. The thing you
> do absolutely is in the spirit of the early web, including free
> availability of information, to everyone.
>
> People on mobile, with data caps, in rural regions of the US (or
> Germany for that matter, or quite a lot of other countries) also have a
> right to access this content, in my opinion. Your project is great
> for that.
>
> Thanks again, you are my hero of the day