Because Gemini deserves a light client with a high power to weight ratio!

gplaces is named after Going Places, the 1965 album by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass. The "o" is omitted from the executable name so it doesn't mess up tab completion for Gopher users and Go developers.

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Places_(Herb_Alpert_and_the_Tijuana_Brass_album) Going Places

The gplaces logo is an artist's impression of a Gemini VII capsule with the red accents of a Humes and Berg Stonelined straight trumpet mute. Sort of.

=> https://humesandberg.com Humes and Berg

gplaces is originally a Gemini port of the delve Gopher client by Sebastian Steinhauer.

=> https://github.com/kieselsteini/delve delve

• SSH-style TOFU with $XDG_DATA_HOME/gplaces_hosts or ~/.gplaces_hosts
• client certificates support via $XDG_DATA_HOME/gplaces_$host$path.{crt,key} or ~/.gplaces_$host$path.{crt,key}
• subscriptions
• permanent redirects with $XDG_DATA_HOME/gplaces_redirects or ~/.gplaces_redirects
• support for non-interactive operation
• configurable MIME type handlers
• "powerful" shell with tab completion, hints and aliases
• VT100 compatible with ANSI escape sequences and NO_COLOR support
• sh-style history with $XDG_DATA_HOME/gplaces_history or ~/.gplaces_history
• UTF-8 word wrapping
• configurable external pager
• optional Gopher support
• optional gophers:// (Gopher+TLS+TOFU) support
• optional Spartan support
• optional Finger support
• optional Guppy support
• small, hackable codebase
• no exotic external dependencies, no NIH: bestline, openssl or libressl, libcurl, libidn2 or libidn (optional) and libmagic (optional)
• ~100K executable when built with -O3 and -Wl,-s on x86_64

• Using Flatpak: flatpak install com.github.dimkr.gplaces
• compile yourself

=> https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.dimkr.gplaces gplaces on Flathub

• clone this repo: git clone --recursive https://github.com/dimkr/gplaces
• type cd gplaces
• type make or make WITH_LIBIDN2=0 WITH_LIBIDN=0 WITH_LIBMAGIC=0
• type make install to install it on the system (defaults to /usr/local)

    > gemini.circumlunar.space

to show a Gemini page, type its URL, press ENTER and gplaces will stream the page contents to the terminal.

to abort the download, press CTRL+c.

when the download is finished, gplaces will display the downloaded page using less(1), the same tool man(1) uses to display man pages.

    `less -r` has exited with exit status 0
    gemini.circumlunar.space/> 

use the arrow keys to scroll, / to search and q to exit less and return to the gplaces prompt.

    (reverse-i-search `g') gemini.circumlunar.space

in addition, gplaces adds the page URL to the history: use the Up and Down keys to navigate through the history, or CTRL+r to search through it. these are only three examples of key bindings from shells like bash(1) which work in gplaces, too.

    cached 2023-04-29 19:41:44
    gemini.circumlunar.space/> 

if you visit the same page again, gplaces will return a cached copy and show the time the page was fetched. gplaces remembers up to histsize pages, so you can return to previously viewed pages immediately, without downloading them again. type get and press ENTER to force gplaces to fetch a cached page again.

    > gemini://konpeito.media/konpeito-09-a.mp3

gplaces displays only Gemtext, gophermaps or plain text files: it downloads other kinds of files (like images, audio and video) to temporary files and runs external "handler" programs (one for each file type) defined in the gplaces configuration file.

    > save gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi
    enter filename: /home/user/Downloads/specification.gmi

to download a file instead of displaying it or saving it to a temporary file, type save, followed by its URL, then press ENTER.

    > save gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi /tmp/spec.gmi

you can also specify the destination path and skip the prompt.

    > save gemini://konpeito.media/konpeito-09-a.mp3 -

alternatively, to stream a file into standard input of the handler program without saving to a file on disk and waiting for the download to complete, use - as the download destination. this is useful for audio or video streaming, and works only with some programs and some file formats.

    gemini.circumlunar.space/> 2 docs/

gplaces associates a number with each link in the last viewed page. type the number of a link to show its URL, then press ENTER to follow it.

to edit the URL of a link, type the link number, press Tab, edit the URL and press ENTER. for example, this is useful if a link leads to a post in another gemlog, but you want to see its homepage.

    gemini.circumlunar.space/> #gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/
    gemini.circumlunar.space/> 

the history can be used as a reading list: prefix a URL with # and press ENTER to add it to the history without opening it first. for example, to add the URL of link 2 to the history, type 2, press Tab to edit the URL, press CTRL+a or Home to go to the beginning of the line, type # and press ENTER. to open this URL later, press the Up key, press CTRL+a or Home, press Delete to remove the leading #, then press ENTER.

    gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/> save 2
    enter filename (press ENTER for `/home/user/Downloads/specification.gmi`):

this number can be used to download the link, too.

    gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/> search
    Search query> gplaces

the gplaces configuration file allows you to define short aliases for URLs you visit often. for example, the default configuration file defines the home alias for the Gemini project homepage and the search alias for a Gemini search engine. type search and press ENTER to search geminispace.

    > geminispace.info/search gplaces
    > search gplaces
    > search "gemini client"

if a URL accepts input, you can specify the input in a second argument, to avoid another request to the same URL and skip the prompt. this works with aliases, too.

to show a feed of new posts, type sub, then press ENTER. the list of URLs gplaces is "subscribed" to is defined in the configuration file.

to exit gplaces, press CTRL+d.

additional documentation and more details are available in man gplaces. type help and press ENTER to see short descriptions of available commands.

=> LICENSE GPLv3