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openzim / zimit

Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline!
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Provide a packaged solution to run Zimit on a desktop, Windows at least, with UI + "backend" #425

Open Snippet24816 opened 2 weeks ago

Snippet24816 commented 2 weeks ago

Please consider something like running in the local browser but without using external sites.

benoit74 commented 2 weeks ago

Can you please explain a bit more your use case / problem? I don't get at all what you want / miss.

Zimit is building completely offline archives in a ZIM. And these offline ZIM scan be read on the various kiwix readers, some of them working in a local browser (Kiwix JS / PWA and kiwix serve).

Of course what is in the ZIM is always limited by some factor because there is always a boundary on what we include, since the web is a giant mesh and we cannot ZIM the whole web in a single ZIM.

Snippet24816 commented 2 weeks ago

Oh I meant to instead of using https://zimit.kiwix.org/ to download the archive if is planned to add the same functionality of crawling and generating the zim from my own computer. Maybe it can be done with Docker for Desktop in Windows, but would be great to have it as a local more portable program like Kiwix for windows

benoit74 commented 2 weeks ago

Oh, OK, got it. This is indeed a feature we've been asked for multiple time. I'll change the issue title to make it clearer (at least for us ^^).

Pretty sure this is not something which will happen soon, quite complex technically speaking, and so far Docker for Desktop (or alternatives like Rancher) are indeed the only way to go.

But should someone like to see it happen, do not hesitate to upvote the first comment with a thumb up (and do not hesitate to contact us if you have funding for this feature, this is probably the main struggle we would have ^^).

Snippet24816 commented 2 weeks ago

I'll change the issue title to make it clearer (at least for us ^^).

👍

But should someone like to see it happen, do not hesitate to upvote the first comment with a thumb up

Sure

(and do not hesitate to contact us if you have funding for this feature, this is probably the main struggle we would have ^^).

I'm struggling as well :( but hopefully I may overcome it and be able to help funding. Also thank you for developing this :)