[gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler

[Kevin Veroneau]

Doesn't floodgap list how many active servers are currently in circulation?  That number does sound super small...  maybe there's some hidden pirate servers out there that are used for illegal file sharing.  Gopher, being so obscure seems like the perfect protocol for pirates.  I'm sure there are also many BBS systems that also enable piracy, just like back in the good old days.

On January 1, 2015 9:00:01 AM MST, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>Here's a quick update on GopherMole - I worked on it since my last
>post, 
>and made a few improvements:
>
>  - a 'statistics' page, where one can see some interesting numbers
>- support for PDF documents (although sadly, not many PDF files in the 
>gopherspace contain proper metadata to identify them)
>  - random searches (as in "give me 10 random mp3 files")
>
>   gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/gophermole/
>
>Interesting fact: my spider arrived to the end of the visible 
>gopherspace, and found out there are 43'575 menus out there, spread
>over 
>134 servers. These are definitely not very high numbers.
>
>I'm curious to know whether the spider missed any servers - the full 
>list is available on gophermole (in the "statistics" menu). If you are
>a 
>gopher server owner, and see your server is not listed, I'd be happy to
>
>know about it!
>
>cheers,
>Mateusz
>
>
>
>
>On 12/30/2014 11:13 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here I present GopherMole.
>>
>> GopherMole is a project I worked on since some time now, and today is
>> the day when it's ready enough to be put public. It is basically a
>> gopher crawler, but focused on media files, and indexing the actual
>> (meta) content of files, not their menu descriptions.
>>
>> It's far from being as polished as I'd like it to be, I will improve
>it
>> with time. For now, it indexes MP3, OGG and EPUB files. Other formats
>> will come later.
>>
>> Finally, here is the URL where you can take GopherMole for a test
>ride:
>>
>> gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/gophermole
>>
>> cheers,
>> Mateusz
>
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