Offpunk is an offline-first command-line browser

Offpunk allows you to browse the Web, Gemini, Gopher and subscribe to RSS feeds without leaving your terminal and while being offline.

The goal of Offpunk is to be able to synchronise your content once (a day, a week, a month) and then browse/organise it while staying disconnected.

No mouse, no shortcut, no hidden key to press. Every action requires you to type a command. Content is displayed in the venerable “less” pager. Offpunk is intented for people who live in their terminal and don’t want to leave it.

Every content you visit is cached and can be visited later while offline. If you try to visit a content not available in your cache, it will be marked to be downloaded later. Offpunk allows you to synchronise you computer once every hour, day or week and work offline without being interrupted.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Browse https/gemini/gopher without leaving your keyboard and without distractions
• Customize your experience with the theme command.
• Built-in documentation: type help to get the list of command or a specific help about a command.
• Offline mode to browse cached content without a connection. Requested elements are automatically fetched during the next synchronization and are added to your tour.
• HTML pages are prettified to focus on content. Read without being disturbed or see the full page with view full.
• RSS/Atom feeds are automatically discovered by subscribe and rendered as gemlogs. They can be explored with view feed and view feeds.
• Support “subscriptions” to a page. New content seen in subscribed pages are automatically added to your next tour.
• Complex bookmarks management through multiple lists, built-in edition, subscribing/freezing lists and archiving content.
• Advanced navigation tools like tour and mark (as per VF-1). Unlike AV-98, tour is saved on disk accross sessions.
• Ability to specify external handler programs for different MIME types (use handler)
• Enhanced privacy with redirect which allows to block a http domain or to redirect all request to a privacy friendly frontent (such as nitter for twitter).
• Non-interactive cache-building with configurable depth through the –sync command. The cache can easily be used by other software.
• netcache, a standalone CLI tool to retrieve the cached version of a network ressource.
• ansicat, a standalone CLI tool to render HTML/Gemtext/image in a terminal.
• opnk, a standalone CLI tool to open any kind of ressources (local or network) and display it in your terminal or, if not possible, fallback to xdg-open.
• Display HTML, Gemtext, Gophermap, txt, RSS, Atom and even pictures.
• Made of 4 components that can be used separately: netcache, ansicat, opnk and offpunk.
• Tour – FIFO list of all the pages you want to visit. It’s an alternative to tabs in a traditional web browser.
• Organization:
  • Simple bookmarking.
  • Multiple lists and archives.
  • Managing RSS/blog/gemlog subscriptions.
  • Freezing lists to prevent update of content.

Website: offpunk.net
Support:
Developer: Ploum
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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