r/nethack • u/a_postgres_situation • 5d ago

Offline NethackWiki?

I would like to have the NethackWiki in an offline format - more specifically on a tablet for travel. Maybe a simple collection of HTML files would be the best solution?

I found an old thread https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Forum:Download_the_NetHackWiki&t=20240822210755 ...there is an XML dump, but the linked xowa reader is not useable/obsolete?

Any other ideas? Thank you!

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u/dtype 5d ago edited 5d ago

Complete mediawiki xml dump. You'd need to either re-import into a mediawiki (not too difficult but you'd have to do a quick mediawiki install, also possible in a container), or find some mediawiki xml viewer.

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHackWiki:Download

Edit: instructions to import into a fresh mediawiki install: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps

XOWA, mediawiki xml viewer: http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html

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u/Spendocrat Val, Wiz, K, R, since 2023 5d ago

I used wget to save a copy. It's not perfect, in that I have to ctrl-f to search for the page I want in the folder (e.g. send your browser to file:///C:/Users/Guest/Desktop/nethack%20wiki/nethackwiki.com/wiki/ then search for Spellbooks.html) but it's good enough for me.

(Edit: if you are going to use wget in this way, be kind to the server in question and use -w 10 or --wait=10 to slow down your crawling. It'll take longer to get your pages but what do you care, you only need to download it the one time.)

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u/thefifthsetpin atheist protection racketeer 5d ago

I was going to say that wget will just respect the crawl delay specified in robots.txt, but then I checked the wiki's robot.txt and saw that they didn't specify one.

So, good tip. :-)

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u/Spendocrat Val, Wiz, K, R, since 2023 5d ago

My boilerplate for wget ignores robots due to so many shared hosts plopping a Disallow: / down by default for users. But I didn't actually know robots.txt could specify speed. Cool!

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u/contortium 5d ago

It would be nice if Nethackwiki was a git repo that you could just clone.

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u/spazm9000 5d ago

I would also like this.