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MediaWiki scraper: all your wiki articles in one highly compressed ZIM file

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2019-09-07 · latest 2025-04-28

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  1. …https://kiwix.org ), we do a lot of offline Wikipedia stuff. I've personally worked on MWOffliner ( https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner ) which scrapes MediaWikis, primarily Wikipedia. We have apps for basically every platform. Our PWA…
    comment by audiodude · 2025-04-28 · in Internet in a Box
  2. …Could probably use a rewrite. ;) https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/discussion/604121/thread/1f2... https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/1020 https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner
    comment by trevyn · 2020-03-25 · in Wayback Machine was down
  3. You can build your own ZIMs from any MediaWiki instance using this tool: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner . Maybe it would be worth putting together another zimfarm that is constantly updating.
    comment by jedieaston · 2019-09-07 · in Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing