[gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler

[James Mills]

Interesting and very nice :0

You don't have my server (but it's new):

gopher://daisy.shortcircuit.net.au/

But I suspect you won't find much!

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:00 AM, 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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