v0.3.0

Added

• Create your own ZIMs. A Create page with a directory of links, uploads, and a job list.
  • Links: save one page, a section or a whole site; clean-article or full-page mode;
    pictures and video on or off; CSV import with a preview, and export; Create and Update
    per link; optional automatic rebuild every N days.
  • Two capture engines per link: a built-in multithreaded crawler, and browser capture with
    Zimit for sites that need JavaScript (opt-in: it needs the Docker socket).
  • Uploads: PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 books are converted to readable, searchable pages with
    the original file kept inside the ZIM; ZIM files are checked and added as they are.
  • The crawler reads robots.txt (rules and Crawl-delay) and the site's sitemaps before
    any page, wherever the sitemaps are kept, and feeds them and followed links through one
    queue that holds each address once. An option includes a site's subdomains.
  • A site that answers "too many requests" (HTTP 429) is waited for as long as it asks and
    fetched more slowly afterwards, so no page is lost to it.
  • Builds can be paused and resumed; paused builds have their own tab.
  • Builds run as jobs (queued, processing, finished, failed, cancelled) with live progress
    and a list of anything that failed or was skipped. Every ZIM is verified against what
    was prepared before it enters the library.
• Feeds. A Feeds page that keeps ZIMs up to date from RSS and Atom feeds, with its own
  engine, queue, schedule and settings.
  • A collection holds any number of feeds and makes one ZIM, with a first page listing
    every article by month.
  • Only new articles are fetched; the ZIM is rewritten from what is kept on disk, and left
    alone when nothing is new.
  • A schedule per collection (minutes, hours or days), a limit on articles kept, full
    article or feed text, feed discovery from a site's address, OPML import and export,
    retry of failed articles, and pause and resume of syncs.
• Links: a rate limit (requests per second or per minute), sitemap addresses to read, and
  the address of the robots.txt to obey.
• Links: RSS feeds of the site with a schedule of their own. New articles are added to the
  ZIM without crawling the site again; the full rebuild keeps its own schedule.
• A proxy setting for everything fetched for links and feeds, and a captcha solver setting
  (FlareSolverr) for sites that answer with a browser check. compose.yml has optional
  Gluetun (VPN) and FlareSolverr services, commented out.
• Ask AI sources from books made from links show a link to the original page.
• A "My ZIMs" category for books made here; they are left out of the catalog update list.

Fixed

• Builds in progress when the server is restarted are queued again, not marked cancelled.
• The library scan no longer picks up ZIM files inside hidden folders.

Install

• Docker: docker pull ghcr.io/magicstack-llp/zim-pro:0.3.0 (amd64 and arm64)
• Executable: download zim-pro-0.3.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz or -linux-arm64, unpack it and run ./zim-pro. No Python needed.
• Python 3.13: pip install zim-pro==0.3.0

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