How to Download Konpeito Using Diohsc

Author: Ben <benk@tilde.team>

Sun May 21 07:20:42 AM +05 2023

Well, it has been ages since I wrote to my gemlog, something that I should do more often, but needless to say it has been a very busy year, and a lot of my attention has also gone to my GoToSocial instance, which is doing fairly well.

Even though I don't browse Gemini much these days, I still hold a lot of appreciation for the content that is available on the network thanks to the great user community. This is a sentiment that has been echoed recently in our chat room.

One of my favorite original things on Gemini is Konpeito, which sadly announced it would be going down at the end of the month. That means you have only days to download a copy if you haven't already. I tried my hand at it and thought I'd share the best/easiest way to back it up. (I may even consider hosting it myself, but would not want to do so without permission. Also who knows how much data it would use!)

In any case, Konpeito must be saved.

Using Diohsc, the best Gemini client in the universe, all you have to do is open konpeito.media, and then issue the following commands:

`save`

It's just a single page, thankfully, so no need for recursion. (If Diohsc can do that, I don't know how, and probably a bad idea, right?) The `save` command here gives you a copy of the currently open page. Then:

`save 65-1` (don't actually do this; see the Update section below)

Now, there are other ways to accomplish this, but I chose the reverse order because then it downloads the files chronologically. Does that matter? Probably not...

In Diohsc you can apply commands to a range of links. You can read more about it within Diohsc itself by typing `help targets`

Update:

I realized that you only need the zip files unless you want to make your back up thorough and redundant. To put less load on konpeito.media we probably don't want to download all the links, so another option is to use pattern matching in Diohsc to do something like this:

`^^.zip^ save`

This will ensure that you only get the zip files, which contain all the other files. The total sum of the data is approximately 1.6 gigabytes.