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fetch>it

Paste an address.·See what's there.

Fetch Browser for Autonomi. fetchit is a read-only browser for the network. Give it any address and it fetches the content by hash and renders it — text, PDFs, images, audio, video, even full HTML pages with working scripts. No wallet, no account: fetching is always free. It's a reader, not a host — what it pulls is cached privately on your device, the way a browser caches a page you visited. The other half of etch/it: that one writes, this one reads.

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// What it does

Give it an address. It figures out the rest.

Autonomi addresses don't say what they hold — so fetchit looks. It sniffs the bytes, picks a renderer, and shows you the thing. One paste, one screen.

01 / FETCH
Fetch anything.

Text and Markdown render inline. JSON pretty-prints. PDFs page through. EPUB ebooks open in a reader — chapters, table of contents, font size. Images, audio and video play in place. Archives list their contents. Anything else downloads as a file you can save. One input box, every content type the platform can read.

02 / RUN
Run real pages.

Point it at an HTML page on Autonomi and it runs like a page on the web — the full Fetch API, WebAssembly, media playback, range requests. Links between autonomi://<address> pages resolve in-app. A whole multi-page site can live on the network with no DNS and no origin server.

03 / DOWNLOAD
Whole files, then play.

Autonomi reassembles a file from every one of its chunks — so a track or a clip downloads in full before it plays; there's no progressive stream. Once it's down, it's cached: scrub and seek anywhere, instantly, out of the copy on your device. Slow the first time, free every time after.

04 / CACHE
Yours, cached.

What you fetch is kept in a private cache on your device — content-addressed, size-capped, evicted oldest-first, just like a browser cache. fetchit is a browser, not a server: it doesn't host anyone's content, doesn't re-serve it, and holds nothing for you between sessions but that local cache. Clear it any time.

// Running on the network, right now

A website with no website.

demo-city is a small site that lives entirely on Autonomi — no DNS, no host, no origin server. Paste this address into fetchit and you get a real, multi-page site: every page, image, track and WebAssembly module fetched by content hash, linked together with autonomi://back the way pages on the web link to each other.

QR code for autonomi://ba9a8fca…ec94e764 — scan to open fetchit-city in fetch>it

Scan it with your phone’s camera — with fetch>it installed it opens demo-city straight away. No app yet? Get fetch/it, then scan (or paste the address below).

autonomi://ba9a8fcae5677af1876de8b37b1f728446754b6fe78307c2355be28cec94e764
01 · library
A reading room
A public-domain book as styled HTML — plus another one as an .epub, in the reader.
02 · gallery
A photo wall
Public-domain NASA imagery — each photo its own address, tap to fetch.
03 · album
A record
CC0 piano recordings — files download, then play from cache.
04 · cinema
A screening
A short public-domain clip, scrubbable once it's down.
05 · lab
A code bench
Live exhibits — fetch(), media, and a Rust→WebAssembly Game of Life driving a canvas.
06 · brief
An essay
"The address is the thing" — why any of this matters.
07 · game
Beagle Run
A one-tap chase, all in-page canvas. Because why not.

Open it in fetch>it on Android. There's nothing to click here — that's the point: the address is the site.

// The other half

It reads what etch/it writes.

An address from etchit works in fetchit, and vice versa — they're the same network. If fetchit is how you open things, etchit is how you put them there.

The writer · publish
etch/it

Save text to Autonomi, pay a small one-time fee from your own wallet, and get a permanent address — public, or private behind biometric auth on your device. Encrypted backups, restorable on any device with a 6-word passphrase. Non-custodial, open source, Android & desktop.

About etch/it →
// The facts

No server. No catch. No fee to read.

01
0fee
Fetching is free. No wallet, no account — you only pay to write, never to read.
02
0host
No fetchit server. The app is a thin client straight to the public network.
03
B3addr
Addresses are content hashes — what comes back is byte-for-byte what was written, or it doesn't resolve.
04
∅stream
No streaming. Files arrive whole, then play. Range requests work — but only over the cached copy.
05
Rbuild
Reproducible builds. The APK is verifiable against the source in-tree.
06
OSS
Fully open source — the Android app and the shared native networking core, all in-tree.

Fetch > it.

Open source, free to read, no waitlist. Grab a build for your platform, or paste autonomi://ba9a8fca…ec94e764 once it's installed and watch a site load with no server behind it.

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Status: Android, open source.  ·  Reading is free.  ·  Looking to publish, not just read? That's etch/it.