galacteek 0.4.37

Browser for the distributed web

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A multi-platform browser for the distributed web

galacteek is a multi-platform Qt5-based browser/toolbox for the IPFS peer-to-peer network.

Installation

Stable release

• AppImage (Linux): Galacteek-0.4.37-x86_64.AppImage

• DMG (MacOS): Galacteek-0.4.37.dmg

Beta

• Check out the latest beta images

On Linux: Be sure to install all the gstreamer packages on your system to be able to use the mediaplayer. Problem with the AppImage ? Check the wiki or file an issue

On MacOS: After opening/mounting the DMG image, hold Control and click on the galacteek icon, and select Open and accept. You probably need to allow the system to install applications from anywhere in the security settings. Create an issue if you have problems running the DMG image.

You’ll need to have git installed to sync hashmarks repositories. See the releases page for all releases.

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Screencasts

Browsing ipns://ipfs.io

Filemanager drag-and-drop

File sharing

Publish a directory to a pyramid

Live bandwidth stats

Screenshots

Browsing the Wikipedia mirror over IPFS

Features

galacteek can either spawn an IPFS daemon and use it as transport, or connect to an existing IPFS daemon. By default it will try to run a daemon. You can change the IPFS connection settings by clicking on the settings icon in the toolbar and restart the application afterwards. If using a custom daemon, you should enable pubsub and p2p streams, or some features won’t be available (Check this page for more information).

• Decentralized Identifiers (DID) support with IPID

• Browser-to-browser DID authentication over libp2p streams (Verifiable Credentials with RSA-PSS)

• Browsing sessions with automatic pinning (pins every page you browse)

• Distributed chat with pubsub (chat channels syncronized with CRDT+DAG)

• File manager with drag-and-drop support and timeframes (per-day view of files in the MFS)

• File sharing

• Search content with the ipfs-search search engine as well as with cyber

• Built-in blog with Atom feeds

• Webcam to IPFS capture (image and videos)

• Basic built-in media player with IPFS-stored playlists

• Image viewer and QR codes support

• Use the IPFS filestore to avoid file duplication

• ENS (Ethereum Name Service) resolving (access to ENS+IPFS websites)

• Run WASM binaries with wasmer (use Open on a WASM object from the clipboard manager)

Command-line usage

Use the -d command-line switch to enable debugging output. Using –profile gives you the ability to have separate application profiles (main is the default profile). Use –help for all options.

You can run the IPFS daemon in offline mode, using –offline

Enable colorized log output with –log-color

Development: Use –monitor to enable event-loop monitoring with aiomonitor (install aiomonitor manually as it’s not a dependency). Then connect to the aiomonitor interface with nc localhost 50101

Keyboard shortcuts

Please see the shortcuts page (or from the application, click on the Information icon in the toolbar, which will open the documentation).

Development

For instructions on how to build the application, look at the BUILDING page.

Contributions

Contributions that can help:

• Write DID services (a chat service using JSON-LD for example)

• UI translations (French, Spanish)

• Manual translations (French, Spanish)

Platforms supported

• Linux (main target)

• MacOS

• FreeBSD (or any BSD OS, with manual build)

Because of the nature of the software’s stack (asyncio/Quamash), support for any other platform is unlikely.

Requirements

• python3 >= 3.7

• go-ipfs >= 0.5.0

• PyQt5 >= 5.13.2

• PyQtWebengine >= 5.13.2

• gstreamer (on Linux) for media player support

• git

• quamash

• aiohttp

• aioipfs

License

galacteek is offered under the GNU GPL3 license

The logos and animations are licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.

Some elements from the ipfs-css repository (CSS files and fonts) are included.

Some icons from the “Oxygen” icons set are included.

Some of the beautiful artwork (under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license) from the ipfs-logo project’s repository is included, unchanged.