[gopher] Introducing Gopherfeed

[Luke Maurits]

Thanks for letting me know it's working.

There are definitely a few issues with non-ASCII characters getting
displayed oddly.  I'm not sure if that's a problem in Gopherfeed or a
shortcoming of Gophernicus or some interaction between the two or
what, but I'll try to look into it.

Cheers,
Luke


On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:12:02 +1000
daniel g <barana24 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> looks great mate! 
> thankyou for implementing this
> tested on ubuntu 11.04 ff 16.0.2 and overbite 3.0.1627
> 
> I see some txt corruption under the mos_6502 feed ,
> 
> [External URL]    [2013-01-11 09:03] Strange peripherals… the Triton Quick Disk
> and
> [2013-01-04 11:59] Strange peripherals… the Soft Card
> notice the a with a carat on top and the euro symbol and the pipe?
> 
> works decently except for a few little niggles
> 
> great little page!
> 
> > From: luke at maurits.id.au
> > To: gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > Subject: [gopher] Introducing Gopherfeed
> > 
> > Greetings list,
> > 
> > I thought folks here might care to hear about a new free software
> > project of mine, called Gopherfeed
> > (https://github.com/lmaurits/gopherfeed).  As the name suggests, it's a
> > tool for converting RSS/Atom feeds into Gophermaps, which can make it
> > very easy to quickly set up a gopher interface to existing material
> > online, or to use a gopher client as a minimalist feed reader.  You can
> > see an example of the sort of thing Gophermap can do at
> > gopher://luke.maurits.id.au/1feeds.  That page is updated hourly from a
> > cron job with a single command.
> > 
> > I have just released Gopherfeed 1.2, which is the result of about a
> > week of testing and debugging on my own site.  While Gopherfeed is
> > probably still far from bullet-proof, I think it should be fairly
> > robust by now, with all the most obvious bugs worked out.
> > 
> > There are more advanced features I would like to add (like using
> > etags / Last-Modified headers to avoid fetching feeds which haven't
> > changed since last time, and using multiple threads to speed up pulling
> > down large numbers of feeds), but before I dive into that I want to
> > make sure that the Gopher side of things is working well, since I'm
> > fairly new to Gopher technology.
> > 
> > I would appreciate if interested people could give Gopherfeed a spin
> > and let me know how it works with various gopher servers and clients
> > and on various OSes and Python versions, since my own testing has been
> > pretty limited.
> > 
> > Gopherfeed has been uploaded to PyPi, so if you have
> > setuptools, distutils, pip or anything like that installed you should
> > be able to install it simply via:
> > 
> > easy_install gopherfeed
> > or
> > pip install gopherfeed
> > etc.
> > 
> > Once installed, you can get usage instructions by just running
> > "gopherfeed" with no arguments, or you can see the README file on
> > Github.
> > 
> > Hope this is of use/interest to some of the people here.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Luke
> > 
> > -- 
> > Luke Maurits <luke at maurits.id.au>
> > http://www.luke.maurits.id.au
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