gemini-grc/README.md

gemini-grc

A Gemini crawler.

Done

• Concurrent downloading with workers
• Concurrent connection limit per host
• URL Blacklist
• Save image/* and text/* files
• Configuration via environment variables
• Storing snapshots in PostgreSQL
• Proper response header & body UTF-8 and format validation
• Follow robots.txt

TODO

• Take into account gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/companion/robots.gmi
• Proper handling of all response codes
  • Handle 3X redirects properly
• Handle URLs that need presentation of a TLS cert, like astrobotany
  • Probably have a common "grc" cert for all?
• Proper input and response validations:
  • When making a request, the URI MUST NOT exceed 1024 bytes
• Subscriptions to gemini pages? gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/companion/

TODO for later

• Add other protocols
  • Gopher
  • Scroll gemini://auragem.letz.dev/devlog/20240316.gmi
  • Spartan
  • Nex
  • SuperTXT https://supertxt.net/00-intro.html