wiki-to-print/command-line/README.md

CLI for wiki-to-print

The script uses the MediaWiki API to download all content (text + images) from a specified wiki page.

It saves it as a HTML page, which can be turned into a PDF with Paged.js.

Folder structure

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├── css
│   ├── baseline.css
│   ├── pagedjs.css
│   └── print.css
├── fonts
├── images
├── js
│   ├── paged.js
│   └── paged.polyfill.js
├── Makefile
├── templates
│   ├── template.html
│   └── template.inspect.html
└── update.py

How to use it?

1. Change the wiki and pagename (e.g. Pdf:Foobar) variables in update.py on line 221 + 222.
2. Copy paste your CSS into print.css
3. python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run import nltk; nltk.download('punkt') in a python3 interpreter
6. Run $ python3 update.py
7. Run $ make
8. Open localhost:8000 in your browser