

The software does not need a lot of resources, but if you create a pretty big ZIM files, then it could take a while to complete. You simply need to compile it and run it. For now, zimwriterfs only works on POSIX compatible systems. The result will contain all the files of the local directory compressed and merged in the ZIM file.

Zimwriterfs is a console tool to create ZIM files from a localy stored directory containing a "self-sufficient" HTML content (with pictures, javascript, stylesheets). If you are a developer, you can download it directly from its git repository. It goes through all articles (or a selection if specified) of the project and write HTML/pictures to your local filesystem as plain HTML/JS/CSS/. It should also work for any Mediawiki instance. MWoffliner is a tool which allows to "dump" a Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary. DevelopersĪn example approach to create a ZIM file MWoffliner
#Kiwix unable to load zim file archive
As of 2022 the ZIM files it produces are incompatible with kiwix-desktop, because the Web ARChive implementation it uses require ServiceWorkers (only kiwix-android, kiwix-serve). Zimit ( online version) is a scraper allowing to create ZIM file from any website. Wget-2-zim is a simple bash script with some nifty tricks that can be used to archive websites on the internet. See Zimwriterfs instructions for an overview and read the section below on zimwriterfs for some additional context.
