new here
Daniel
me at sc1f1dan.com
Thu Aug 22 04:10:00 EDT 2024
rbowman <bowman at montana.com> writes:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:15:37 +0100, Daniel wrote:
>
>> Lesser used protocols not known by many in the mainstream. Such as:
>>
>> gopher, gemini, finger, spartan, titan, etc.
>>
>> An example of use, here's a weather service tied to a finger. Put your
>> city name as the user. This isn't mine, but it is inspiring. Example:
>>
>> finger miami at graph.no
>>
>> For all options, go to the help finger:
>>
>> finger help at graph.no
>
> Thanks. Interesting. I was surprised a Norwegian site would have data for
> a small city in the US. I have a Python script that accesses the NOAA
> (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) API and the data in the
> Meteogram appears to match well. fwiw, all that does is
>
> observation_url = f"https://api.weather.gov/stations/K{grid_id}/
> observations/latest"
> response = requests.get(observation_url).json()
I think he uses a weather service API to call the data, and I'm sure
they all share data across other national weather services. That's just
a guess.
>
> using the Python 'requests' package and then parsing out the JSON.
> Implementing finger probably would be a straight socket connection. I
> don't know how useful this is:
>
> https://pypi.org/project/pyfinger/
>
> I assume gopher is fron the archie, veronica, and jughead days. It appears
> straightforward.
I use gopher all the time, and the lynx browser supports it directly.
If you have lynx, you can visit this gopher interface to Wikipedia:
gopher://gopherpedia.com
If you like Reddit, there's this
gopher://gopherddit.com
Of course it's read only, but if you're wishing to leisurely read posts
on reddit in a super fast gopher page, you can.
Right now, I'm focused on providing wiktionary.org services on gopher as
well as finger.
These are longterm projects since I can only learn python and code on
spare time, which I have little.
/snip
I will be posting my coding questions in here.
Thanks guys.
Daniel
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