MDN javascript docs for offline use
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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 ?
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
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 access the MDN content, both as single pages and via third-party tools.
And others : don't mirror with wget & co, this is putting un-needed pressure on the website and hinders other users. At least make sure 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).
Solution 2 - Javascript
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.
Solution 3 - Javascript
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.
Solution 4 - Javascript
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.
Solution 5 - Javascript
download wget and use it to mirror the doc :
wget -m -p https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference
Solution 6 - Javascript
DevDocs gives you 519 different documentations all from MDN and developed using Ruby scraper and JavaScript application. This should help anyone who comes across this question. Its also Open Source on GitHub