The Sneakerweb

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The Sneakerweb is a peer-to-peer protocol and CLI tool for decentralized web publishing that stores websites on user devices and transfers them via physical media, enabling offline browsing and permissionless sharing.

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# sneakerweb Source: [https://sneakerweb.org/](https://sneakerweb.org/) ## A parallel web transported by physical media ![A drawing showing a cycle of authoring HTML, exchanging physical media, and browsing websites](https://sneakerweb.org/assets/graphics/cycle.png)The sneakerweb is a peer\-to\-peer protocol for web publishing without permission: there are no DNS servers, domain registrars, or web hosts\. Instead, websites are stored directly on user devices, and transferred between them through the ultimate fallback infrastructure: physical storage media\. Your collected sites can be viewed offline, in the same web browser you normally use, and then shared with others via`\.snk`files\. ## The sneakerweb CLI The sneakerweb CLI lets you browse and maintain a local collection of sneakerwebsites\. You can export your collection to a \.snk file, you can import \.snk files into your collection, and you can create new websites\. - `sneakerweb domain`— claim a sneakerweb domain to publish to - `sneakerweb publish`— publish a static website to a sneakerweb domain - `sneakerweb export`— export websites to a \.snk file - `sneakerweb import`— import \.snk files into your sneakerweb collection - `sneakerweb block`— block domains you don't want to import or propagate - `sneakerweb serve`— start a local server to browse your collection from your web browser You can[download the sneakerweb CLI here](https://sneakerweb.org/downloads)\. ## Protocol specification The command\-line interface is just one client for the[fully specified sneakerweb protocol](https://sneakerweb.org/spec)\. This protocol builds upon[Willow](https://willowprotocol.org/), which is used to prevent the forgery of websites, merge updated data, and create efficient and compact \.snk files\.

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