Wiki to HTML pages script

Depencencies

• python3

• pip Python library installed

  • Install:
    • curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
    • python3 get-pip.py

• mwclient Python library

  • Install:
    • pip3 install mwclient

• jinja2 Python library

  • Install:
    • pip3 install jinja2

• pandoc

  • Install:
    • Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install pandoc
    • Mac: brew install pandoc

login.txt

login.txt is a secrete file (ignored by git) where you place you itch wiki username and password, in separate lines.

It is used to let mwclient access the wiki, since it is close for reading and writing.

myusername
mypassword

Run

• all toguether ./run.sh

• python3 download_imgs.py

  • Downloads all images from wiki to images/ directory
  • and stores each image's metadata to images.json

• python3 images2html.py

  • cycles through the items in images.json
  • querying the File: wiki for image
  • if it contains essential metadata: Title, Page, Total Pages
    • retrieves its text content
    • generates a HTML page from it
    • saves page onto static_html/ directory

TODO: Work on making an overview!