dev-dsp / gopherdl

Recursive downloader for the gopher protocol

gopherdl

gopherdl is a Python3 program for downloading files and menus over the gopher protocol. It is similar to wget in terms of commandline options and basic features.

Verified with Python3.11

Usage Examples

Download the index page of gopher.floodgap.com:

./gopherdl.py gopher.floodgap.com

Recursively download all files and menus on gopher.floodgap.com:

./gopherdl.py -r gopher.floodgap.com

Recursively download just menus on gopher.floodgap.com:

./gopherdl.py -r -m gopher.floodgap.com

etc

To see a list of options, run

./gopherdl.py -h

Why

It takes forever to manually traverse every menu on a large gopher server, so hopefully this tool will make content discovery easier.

And, to my surprise, there doesn't seem to exist a wget-equivalent for the gopher protocol, how strange! Hopefully gopherdl fills the gap.