Export MediaWiki to HTML

The task is to export a MediaWiki to HTML.

There is the extension DumpHTML, but it is unmaintained: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension%3aDumpHTML

This Python script supports the following features:

• links between the pages
• links to anchors
• links to non-existing pages
• directly embedded images
• thumbnails
• supports authentication for dumping a protected wiki
• export all (currently up to 500) pages, or export a single page

You need to use a bot password, to make the script work, see [[Special:BotPasswords]] / https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bot_passwords

Install

git clone https://github.com/SolidCharity/exportMediaWiki2HTML.git
cd exportMediaWiki2HTML
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

For all commands, you need to activate the virtual environment first:

cd exportMediaWiki2HTML
source .venv/bin/activate

Please pass the url of the wiki

python3 exportMediaWiki2Html.py --url https://mywiki.example.org

Optionally pass the page id of the page you want to download, eg. for debugging:

python3 exportMediaWiki2Html.py --url https://mywiki.example.org --page 180

Optionally pass the name of a Bot and the Bot password (create a Bot at https://wiki.example.org/index.php?title=Spezial:BotPasswords):

python3 exportMediaWiki2Html.py --url https://mywiki.example.org --user "myuser@botname" --password "botpwd" [pageid]

You can use --help to see all options.

Contribute

Feel free to file any issues, and Pull Requests are welcome as well!