Zimdump

The zimdump software, included in libzim, is a console tool allowing to inspect the content of a ZIM file.

usage: zimDump [options] zimfile

options: -F       print fileinfo -N ns    print info about namespace -i       print info about articles -d       print data of articles -p       print page -f title find article -u url   find article by url -t       sort (and find) articles by title instead of url -l       list articles -L       list articles as table -o idx   locate article by index -x       print extra parameters -n ns    specify namespace (default 'A') -D dir   dump all files into directory -v       verbose (print uncompressed length of articles when -i is set) (print namespaces with counts with -F) -Z       dump index data

examples: zimDump -F wikipedia.zim zimDump -l wikipedia.zim zimDump -f Auto -i wikipedia.zim zimDump -f Auto -d wikipedia.zim zimDump -f Auto -l wikipedia.zim zimDump -f Auto -l -i -v wikipedia.zim zimDump -o 123159 -l -i wikipedia.zim

Requirements
If you compile the software from source you need the following libraries installed:
 * libxz-dev
 * autoconf
 * automake
 * libtool