Recursive downloader for the gopher protocol
gopherdl is a Python3 program for downloading files and menus over the gopher
protocol. It is similar to wget in terms of commandline options and basic
features.
Download the index page of gopher.floodgap.com:
./gopherdl.py gopher.floodgap.com
Recursively download all files and menus on gopher.floodgap.com:
./gopherdl.py -r gopher.floodgap.com
Recursively download just menus on gopher.floodgap.com:
./gopherdl.py -r -m gopher.floodgap.com
etc
To see a list of options, run
./gopherdl.py -h
It takes forever to manually traverse every menu on a large gopher server, so
hopefully this tool will make content discovery easier.
And, to my surprise, there doesn’t seem to exist a wget-equivalent for the
gopher protocol, how strange! Hopefully gopherdl fills the gap.