Build your ZIM file
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There is currently only one binary to build a ZIM file, the ZIMwriter. This binary uses a pre-filled Postgres Database with a predefined scheme. For example :
zimwriter -s 1024
--db "postgresql:dbname=mydb" my_zim_file
We want to provide in the future a binary able to work with other input (for example: Wikimedia Foundation XML dumps, or HTML directory).
One tool is currently able to create/fill this database:
buildZimFileFromDirectory.pl
This script is part of the Kiwix tools and allows to build a ZIM file from a HTML directory containing all necessary ressources.
You need:
- Checkout the dumping tools : svn co http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/dumping_tools/
- Install all necessary Perl modules
- run the script like following: ./buildZimFileFromDirectory.pl --htmlPath=./html [--indexerPath=./zimindexer] [--zimFilePath=articles.zim]
Wiki2html
(can be used to prepare static HTML files from a running Mediawiki instance.)