Amfora aims to be the best looking Gemini client with the most features... all in the terminal. It does not support Gopher or other non-Web protocols - check out Bombadillo for that.
It also aims to be completely cross platform, with full Windows support. If you're on Windows, I would not recommend using the default terminal software. Use Windows Terminal instead, and make sure it works with UTF-8. Note that some of the application colors might not display correctly on Windows, but all functionality will still work.
It fully passes Sean Conman's client torture test, as well as the Egsam one.
Amfora is in maintenance mode. When possible, I’ll make/merge bug fixes, and maybe slowly merge feature PRs by others. See my blog post for details.
Download a binary from the releases page. On Unix-based systems you will have to make the file executable with chmod +x <filename>. You can rename the file to just amfora for easy access, and move it to /usr/local/bin/.
On Windows, make sure you click "Advanced > Run anyway" after double-clicking, or something like that.
Unix systems can install the desktop entry file to get Amfora to appear when they search for applications:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/master/amfora.desktop -o ~/.local/share/applications/amfora.desktop
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applicationsMake sure to click "Watch" in the top right, then "Custom" > "Releases" to get notified about new releases!
Amfora is packaged in many Linux distros. It's also on Scoop for Windows users.
If you use Homebrew, you can install Amfora with:
brew install amfora
You can update it with:
brew upgrade amfora
On macOS, Amfora can also be installed through MacPorts:
sudo port install amfora
You can update it with:
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade amfora
NOTE: this installation source is community-maintained. More information here.
If you're using Termux on Android you can't just run Amfora like normal. After installing Amfora, run pkg install proot. Then run termux-chroot before running the Amfora binary. You can exit out of the chroot after closing Amfora. See here for why this is needed.
This section is for advanced users who want to install the latest (possibly unstable) version of Amfora.
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Requirements:
- Go 1.15 or later
- GNU Make
Please note the Makefile does not intend to support Windows, and so there may be issues.
git clone https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora
cd amfora
# git checkout v1.2.3 # Optionally pin to a specific version instead of the latest commit
make # Might be gmake on macOS
sudo make install # If you want to install the binary for all usersBecause you installed with the Makefile, running amfora -v will tell you exactly what commit the binary was built from.
Arch Linux users can also install the latest commit of Amfora from the AUR. It has the package name amfora-git, and is maintained by @lovetocode999
yay -S amfora-git
MacOS users can also use Homebrew to install the latest commit of Amfora:
brew install --HEAD amfora
You can update it with:
brew upgrade --fetch-HEAD amfora
Features in italics are in the master branch, but not in the latest release.
- URL browsing with TOFU and error handling
- Tabbed browsing
- Support ANSI color codes on pages, even for Windows
- Styled page content (headings, links)
- Basic forward/backward history, for each tab
- Input (Status Code 10 & 11)
- Multiple charset support (over 55)
- Built-in search (uses geminispace.info by default)
- Bookmarks
- Download pages and arbitrary data
- Theming
- Check out the user contributed themes!
- Proxying
- Schemes like Gopher or HTTP can be proxied through a Gemini server
- Client certificate support
- Full client certificate UX within the client
- Create transient and permanent certs within the client, per domain
- Manage and browse them
- Similar to Kristall
- https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/001400.html
- Full client certificate UX within the client
- Subscriptions
- Subscribing to RSS, Atom, and JSON Feeds are all supported
- So is subscribing to a page, to know when it changes
- Open non-text files in another application
- Ability to stream content instead of downloading it first
- Highlighting of preformatted code blocks that list a language in the alt text
- Stream support
- Table of contents for pages
- Search in pages with Ctrl-F
- Persistent history
Please see the wiki for an introduction on how to use Amfora and configure it.
Amfora ❤️ open source!
- cview for the TUI
- Viper for configuration and TOFU storing
- go-gemini, my forked and updated Gemini client/server library
- progressbar
- go-humanize
- gofeed
- chroma for source code syntax highlighting
- clipboard
- termenv
This project is licensed under the GPL v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.
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