It is now official: zimit 2.0, our (near-)universal content scraper, is out! Zimit is already available at zimit.kiwix.org, and we’ve also re-generated existing recipes that were running on the previous iteration. This labour of love has been 3 years in the asking and 13 months in the making: kudos to everyone involved.
Zimit does what all of other, more specialized scrapers do: it crawls a target website -any website- and packages it into a zim file that users like you can then download and browse offline.
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While far from perfect, this new architecture is a lot more powerful than what we had before: it also does not require Service Workers anymore – a source of constant befuddlement and annoyance, particularly for desktop and iOS users.
As usual, all code is available for the taking, studying, sharing, and modifying at github.com/openzim/zimit.
If this sparked your interest in requesting a specific website (and that website is under a free license) please do open a request on our github repository and we will look into it.
Last but not least, remember that Kiwix is run by a non-profit that needs your support to keep going! If you can afford to, please consider making a donation.