Focused on Gemini first but with some Gopher/web support available or projected, the goal of Offpunk is to be able to synchronise your content once (a day, a week, a month) and then browse it while staying disconnected.
Offpunk is a fork of the original [AV-98](https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98) by Solderpunk and was originally only called AV-98-offline as an experimental branch.
You use the `go` command to visit a URL, e.g. `go gemini.circumlunar.space`. If xsel is installed, go will automatically fetch the URL from your clipboard.
Use `add` to add a capsule to your bookmarks and `bm` to show your bookmarks (which are stored in a file in you .config).
Use `offline` to only browse cached content and `online` to go back online.
Use the `help` command to learn about additional commands.
When launched with the "--sync" option, offpunk will run non-interactively and fetch content from your bookmarks and content tentatively accessed while offline. New content found in your bookmarks will be added to your tour.
With "--sync", one could specify a "--cache validity" in seconds. This option will not refresh content if a cache exists and is less than the specified amount of seconds old.
For example, running
`offpunk.py --sync --cache-validity 43200`
will refresh your bookmarks if those are at least 12h old.
This fork is an experiment by Ploum (=> gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum ) to add offline capabilities to AV-98, including a persistent "tour" option.
See how I browse Gemini offline => gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2021-12-17-offline-gemini.gmi
In AV-98, use the commands "online" and "offline" to switch between offline/online.
While offline, only content cached in .cache/av-98/ is accessed.
Use "av-98.py --sync" to build a cache containing your bookmarks and all links in your bookmarks. It might be quite slow the first time, be patient. You can also use the option "--cache-validity 3600" to only refresh cache which are at least 1h old (set the number of seconds according to your needs. If 0 or not set, cache-validity is considered as infinite).
Uncached ressources tentatively accessed offline will be accessed with the next --sync, including reload of already cached ressources. Already cached ressources might randomly be reloaded from time to time.
New ressources discovered in your bookmarks while --sync will be added to your tour. This means that if you have gemlogs in your bookmarks, any new posts in those will be added to your tour.
At the moment, caching only work for gemini:// ressources. gopher:// is not implemented and http(s):// ressources are sent to an "offline browser" (by default, None, nothing is done). It could be useful to, for example, send the http:// links to a text file in order to visit them while online.
* [Python magic](https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/) is useful to determine the MIME type of cached object. If not present, the file extension will be used but some capsules provide wrong extension or no extension at all.