mw-ocg-bundler
A mediawiki article spider tool.
This tool grabs all the dependencies for a given set of articles and creates a directory or zip file. The format is documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PDF_rendering/Bundle_format
Installation
Node version 0.8 and 0.10 are tested to work.
Install the node package depdendencies with:
npm install
Install other system dependencies.
apt-get install zip
Running
To generate a bundle for the en.wikipedia.org
article United States
:
bin/mw-ocg-bundler -v -o bundle.zip -h en.wikipedia.org "United States"
To generate a bundle for a collection of articles about the inner planets:
bin/mw-ocg-bundler -v -o bundle.zip -h en.wikipedia.org --title Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars
If you have a book specification (in the form of metabook.json
and
nfo.json
files), use:
bin/mw-ocg-bundler -v -o bundle.zip -m metabook.json -n nfo.json
For non-interactive use feel free to remove the -v
flag.
For other options, see:
bin/mw-ocg-bundler --help
There are several rendering backends which take bundles in this format as inputs. See mw-ocg-latexer, for instance, which generates PDFs of mediawiki articles via XeLaTeX, and mw-ocg-texter which generates plaintext versions of mediawiki articles.
License
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 C. Scott Ananian
Licensed under GPLv2.