kolibri2zim

kolibr2zim allows you to create a ZIM file from a Kolibri Channel.

It downloads the video (webm or mp4 extension – optionally recompress them in lower-quality, smaller size), the thumbnails, the subtitles and the authors' profile pictures ; then, it create a static HTML files folder of it before creating a ZIM off of it.

Warning

This scraper is under heavy modifications to prepare a v2 including a brand new UI for navigating the tree of content and a move to Vue.JS. These changes are already merged into main branch but not yet completed. Should you be interested in a stable version, please used published versions (PyPI or Docker). We also have a v1 branch for any urgent patch needed to current production version.

Requirements

• Node 20.x
• Python 3.11
• ffmpeg for video transcoding (only used with --use-webm or --low-quality).
• curl and unzip to install Javascript dependencies. See get_web_deps.sh if you want to do it manually.

Installation

Virtualenv

kolibri2zim is a Python3 software. If you are not using the Docker image, you are advised to use it in a virtual environment to avoid installing software dependencies on your system.

python3 -m venv env      # Create virtualenv
source env/bin/Activate  # Activate the virtualenv ('env/Scripts/Activate' in Windows)
pip3 install kolibri2zim # Install dependencies
kolibri2zim --help       # Display kolibri2zim help

Call deactivate to quit the virtual environment.

See pyproject.toml for the list of python dependencies.

To test epubs and pdfs rendering, a potential usefull command is:

kolibri2zim --name "Biblioteca Elejandria" --output /output --tmp-dir /tmp --zim-file Biblioteca_Elejandria.zim --channel-id "fed29d60e4d84a1e8dcfc781d920b40e" --node-ids 'd92c07655128458f8248416154b18a68,89fe2f86ee3f4fbaa7fb2bf9bd56d088,75f99e6b97d14b14a4e74762ad77391f,89fe2f86ee3f4fbaa7fb2bf9bd56d088'

Docker

docker run -v my_dir:/output ghcr.io/openzim/kolibri kolibri2zim --help

Usage

kolibri2zim works off a channel-id that you must provide. This is a 32-characters long ID that you can find in the URL of the channel you want, either from Kolibri Studio or the Kolibri Catalog

Development

kolibri2zim adheres to openZIM's Contribution Guidelines.

kolibri2zim has implemented openZIM's Python bootstrap, conventions and policies v1.0.0.

Before contributing be sure to check out the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.

Some usefull test channels:

• 7f744ce8d28b471eaf663abd60c92267: a very minimal channel with all kind of content
• 9f15f4e9aeaa48b5ae271e5749d6fe80 : a small channel with significantly nested items and all kind of content

Build and running scraper locally

You have to:

• build the zimui frontend which will be embededed inside the ZIM (and redo it every time you make modifications to the zimui)
• run the scraper to retrieve FCC curriculum and build the ZIM

Sample commands:

cd zimui
yarn install
yarn build
cd ../scraper
hatch run kolibri2zim --name "Biblioteca Elejandria" --output output --zim-file Biblioteca_Elejandria.zim --channel-id "fed29d60e4d84a1e8dcfc781d920b40e" --node-ids 'd92c07655128458f8248416154b18a68,89fe2f86ee3f4fbaa7fb2bf9bd56d088,75f99e6b97d14b14a4e74762ad77391f,89fe2f86ee3f4fbaa7fb2bf9bd56d088'

Running scraper with Docker

Run from official version (published on GHCR.io) ; ZIM will be available in the output sub-folder of current working directory.

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/output:/output ghcr.io/openzim/kolibri:latest kolibri2zim --name "Biblioteca Elejandria" --output /output --tmp-dir /tmp --zim-file Biblioteca_Elejandria.zim --channel-id "fed29d60e4d84a1e8dcfc781d920b40e" --node-ids 'd92c07655128458f8248416154b18a68,89fe2f86ee3f4fbaa7fb2bf9bd56d088,75f99e6b97d14b14a4e74762ad77391f,89fe2f86ee3f4fbaa7fb2bf9bd56d088'

License

GPLv3 or later, see LICENSE for more details.