Offpunk
An offline-first command-line browser and feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and the web.
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About Offpunk
Offpunk is designed so that you synchronise content once a day, week or month, and then browse and organise it while disconnected. It handles Gemini, Gopher and Spartan capsules as well as ordinary web pages and feeds, all from a terminal.
It is a set of Python files. You can run it straight from a git clone or install a distribution package. A built-in tutorial, started by typing "tutorial", and a help command cover the commands. It began as a fork of Solderpunk's AV-98 Gemini client.
Strengths
- Syncs content once, then works fully offline
- Covers Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and the web in one tool
- Doubles as a feed reader
- Runs from a git clone with no installation
Limitations
- Terminal only, with a command-driven interface to learn
- Not suited to interactive or script-heavy websites
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download and run from the published source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Ploum
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Reading the web and smolnet in batches while mostly offline
- Categories
- Web browsers, RSS readers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Offpunk
Compare allSoftware that can replace Offpunk for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Lagrange
A cross-platform desktop and mobile client for browsing Geminispace and other small-web networks.
Lagrange browses Geminispace with a graphical desktop and mobile client plus an optional terminal interface, but it is made for Gemini and the small web rather than the regular web.
Chawan
A terminal web browser with its own engine supporting CSS, JavaScript and inline images.
Chawan is a terminal browser that handles Gemini, Gopher and the web with CSS, JavaScript and inline images, but it is not a feed reader and builds with the Nim compiler.
Lynx
Text-mode web browser for terminals and remote systems.
Lynx is a text-mode terminal browser with very low bandwidth and resource use that works over SSH, but it has no JavaScript, CSS or images.
w3m
A text-based web browser and pager that runs in the terminal.
w3m reads web pages as text in the terminal and works as a pager for local files, but it has no JavaScript and focuses on the regular web.
Offpunk as an alternative
Listings that name Offpunk as an alternative.
russ
A terminal RSS and Atom reader written in Rust with vim-style controls and offline storage.
Offpunk is an offline-first command-line browser that doubles as a feed reader and also covers Gemini, Gopher and Spartan, with a command-driven interface.
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ELinks
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Links
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Agregore
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