Product Information
What is Offpunk?
Ploum's Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, and Web command-line and offline-first browser/feed reader. Offpunk aims to enable you to sync your content once (a day, a week, a month) and then browse/organize while staying disconnected.
Features
- Browse HTTPS/Gemini/Gopher/Spartan without leaving the keyboard, free from distractions.
- Built-in documentation: Type `help` for a list of commands or specific help on a command.
- Offline mode to browse cached content without a connection. Requested elements are automatically fetched during the next sync and added to your tour.
- HTML pages are stripped down to content. Read without interruptions or view the full page.
- RSS/Atom feeds are automatically subscribed to and displayed as Gemlogs. Explore them via `view feed` and `view entry`.
- Support for "subscription" pages. New content seen on subscription pages is automatically added to your next tour.
- Sophisticated bookmark management with multiple lists, built-in editing, subscription/freeze lists, and archived content.
- Advanced navigation tools like `Tour` and `Mark` (inspired by VF-1). Unlike AV-98, `Tour` saves sessions on disk.
- Ability to specify external handlers for different MIME types (using `handler`).
- Enhanced privacy via redirects, allowing blocking of HTTP domains or redirecting all requests to privacy-friendly frontends (e.g., Nitter for Twitter).
- Non-interactive cache building with configurable depth via the `-sync` command. The cache can be easily used by other software.
- IPv6 support.
- Support for any encoding recognized by Python.
- Cryptography: TOFU or CA server certificate verification.
- Cryptography: Extensive client certificate support if the OpenSSL binary is available.
How to use Offpunk?
Offpunk is a command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/subscription reader that supports Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, and web protocols. Its core value lies in allowing users to sync content periodically and then browse and organize it offline.
Core Functions of Offpunk
Lightweight, Privacy-Focused, Command-Line Interface, No Tracking
Usage Scenarios of Offpunk
- Browse cached content offline when there's no internet connection.
- Browse content from various protocols like Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, and Web via a command-line interface without distractions.
- Subscribe to and explore RSS/Atom feeds, rendering them as gemlogs.
- Manage complex bookmarks, including multiple lists, editing, subscribing/freezing lists, and content archiving.
- Utilize non-interactive cache building and share caches with other software.
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