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GoFetchGoFetch is a simple web scrapper that outputs gopher-ready files.Synopsisgofetch [dir] [selector] [type] [max] [hostname] [port]DescriptionYou point the program to your gopher directory, you launch it, and you have agopher view of the supported news sites.The program will also helpfully create a gophermap and an index.html page for each supported website, as well as a general page to link to all the subpages (selector/gophermap and selector/index.html).Supported websitesSlashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters!LWN: Linux Weekly NewsletterLe Monde: Actualités et Infos en France et dans le mondeThe Register: Biting the hand that feeds ITTooLinux: Actualité généraliste sur Linux et les logiciels libresÈre Numérique.FR: faites le bon choix !Phoronix: news regarding free and open-source softwareSupported platformsAny platform with at lest Java 1.6 on it should be ok.OptionsYou can start the program via the script or directly with java:gofetch [dir] [selector] [type] [max] [hostname] [port]java -jar gofetch.jar [dir] [selector] [type] [max] [hostname] [port]The options are:dir: the target directory where to store the filesselector: the gopher selector to prepend (also a sub-directory in [dir])type: the supported website (see the Supported websites section) in upper case or the special keyword ALL for all of themmax: the maximum number of stories to show on the main pagehostname: the gopher hostnameport: the gopher portCompilation./configure.sh && makeYou can also import the java sources into, say, Eclipse, and create a runnable JAR file from there.Dependant libraries (included)libs/nikiroo-utils-sources.jar: some shared utility functions I also use elsewherelibs/jsoup-sources.jar: a nice library to parse HTMLNothing else but Java 1.6+.Note that calling make libs will export the libraries into the src/ directory.AuthorGoFetch was written by Niki Roo niki@nikiroo.be