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MDN Javascript Docs For Offline Use

The document discusses different options for accessing the MDN JavaScript documentation offline. It mentions downloading a tarball from the MDN website, using the DevDocs app which can run offline, using the Dash app on Mac which includes MDN docs, or using the Dochub project which can scrape and serve MDN docs locally. The answers are collected from Stack Overflow under various open source licenses.

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MDN Javascript Docs For Offline Use

The document discusses different options for accessing the MDN JavaScript documentation offline. It mentions downloading a tarball from the MDN website, using the DevDocs app which can run offline, using the Dash app on Mac which includes MDN docs, or using the Dochub project which can scrape and serve MDN docs locally. The answers are collected from Stack Overflow under various open source licenses.

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MDN javascript docs


for offline use
I am trying to make MDN's Javascript Reference
available for offline browsing (personal use).

I am not the website's owner nor developer, and


I can only access its generated output.

My first thought was to inject an HTML5


appcache.manifest in the page ; Using
manifestR I have generated a list of the
page's assets.

Then I've tried pointing to my local manifest


file using the file:/// protocol, using the
http:// protocol and finally using a base64
string, representing the file's contents
(data:text/cache-manifest,). Nothing seems to
work.

After googling a bit, I stumbled upon their


public FTP . Haven't fully crawled it yet. But
still didn't find any mentions of the js docs.

I have considered saving the HTML

pages using the browser's Save As


command; But I would rather develop a
javascript-based crawler than saving
every single page separately.

Where can I find an offline version of MDN Docs


? Or how can I browse MDN docs while being
offline ?

Asked By: Pierre || Source

Answer #1:
Download it at https://mdn-downloads.s3-us-
west-
2.amazonaws.com/developer.mozilla.org.tar.gz

The "Downloading content" section of About MDN


provides the above link (for a tarball
download) along with guidance on other ways to
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And others : don't mirror with wget & co, this


is putting un-needed pressure on the website
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https://developer.mozilla.org/robots.txt (which
asks for gentle throttling) is properly
handled. Wget does not handle this for instance
( http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30999 ).

Answered By: Pierre

Answer #2:
The JavaScript docs along with most of MDN's
web reference pages are available on DevDocs .

The app is open source and can be run offline:


https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs

It's easy to set up and doesn't require


scraping MDN.

Answered By: zerodeux

Answer #3:
If you have a Mac, Dash
( http://kapeli.com/dash ) has docsets generated
from the Mozilla Developer Network, including
JavaScript. You can also avoid using Dash by
downloading the docset directly from
http://kapeli.com/feeds/JavaScript.tgz .

Answered By: Thibaut

Answer #4:
This looks fairly promising:
https://github.com/rgarcia/dochub

It's an all-in-one documentation site which can


be installed on your own computer (requires
node), containing data from a number of
standard web references including MDN. It
contains a screen scraper component that
extracts the info from MDN, and updates it
fairly quickly (at least a lot faster than the
wget mirror command mentioned above). I haven't
confirmed how complete the docs are as scraped,
but at first glance they look pretty good.
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PY4U.NET Answer #5: BOO

download wget and use it to mirror the doc :

wget -m -p
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Ref
erence

Answered By: user4815162342

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stackoverflow, are licensed under cc by-sa 2.5
, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0 .

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