The Forest

The Forest

Rediscover the joy of getting lost on the web

The Forest is a Raycast extension that opens a random website from theforest.link and keeps a lightweight local walk history so you can quickly revisit or copy previous discoveries.

Commands

• Go for a Walk opens a random website planted in The Forest.
• View Walk History lists up to 100 previous walks with actions to reopen or copy their URLs.
• Plant a Website submits a website for consideration using The Forest's public planting form.
• Open The Forest opens the original interactive forest.

AI tools

• Take a Walk discovers a random site, saves it to history, and returns a link.
• Get Walk History retrieves up to 100 previous discoveries.
• Clear Walk History clears saved discoveries after user confirmation.
• Plant Website submits a URL after showing exactly what may become publicly discoverable.

Website Addresses

Plant a Website and the Plant Website AI tool accept bare domains (example.com) and domains with paths or ports (example.com:8443/blog). Bare addresses use HTTPS; explicit http:// and https:// addresses keep their scheme. Surrounding whitespace is trimmed. Addresses with internal whitespace, backslashes, embedded login credentials, unsafe schemes, or malformed hosts/ports are rejected. Localhost and IPv6 addresses are also supported.

Development Checks

Run npm ci, npm test, npm run lint, npx tsc --noEmit, and npm run build. Tests cover normalization, form validation/submission, AI confirmation, and the encoded planting request using fixtures and mocked HTTPS. They send no real planting requests. Native Raycast UI and live service behavior require separate validation.

Product plan

Version 1

• Keep the core walk one keystroke away with a no-view command.
• Resolve and save each walk locally so discoveries can be revisited later.
• Match the website's planting flow in a native, validated Raycast form.
• Preserve an escape hatch to the original interactive experience.

Follow-ups

• Consider favorites if the walk history proves useful and people want permanent curation.
• Add Raycast AI tools only if they preserve the site's intentionally algorithm-free discovery experience.
• Revisit submission handling if The Forest publishes a documented API contract.