Comment by telesilla
1 day ago
I've been using httrack (https://www.httrack.com) to download wikis to read on flights, which isn't perfect but better than I'd found previously. I'll try this out, I'd be delighted to have good results. Thanks for the post.
Specifically for wikis, is there a reason you wouldn't use Kiwix? For non "official" releases it's more complicated, but there are some services to generate the ZIM files. The desktop reader app is pretty good in my experience.
https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file
EDIT: https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/applications/kiwix-reader...
Kiwix has readers for almost every platform, Android, desktop, iPhone. That's why I made Kage produce ZIM file.
The executable file is mostly for people who don't have Kiwix installed yet, or just want to run the archive directly.
Thanks, never knew about this and great to hear about it.
This brings back memories. Around twenty years ago, internet was still expensive dial-up, so I used to go to an internet cafe, run HTTrack to download websites and manga, copy everything onto my tiny 128MB USB stick (felt very large at that time), then bring it home and read offline ;))
https://github.com/archiveteam/grab-site or browsertrix may be easier to use for some, it's what was used to save a lot of the data.gov stuff before it got taken down.