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- May 16, 2019
Inspired by the Portable Library of Alexandria idea, I started toying around with the aptly named Kiwix software. This is an archive reader program used to browse offline, packaged archives of popular wikis and websites. The idea is to have offline versions of critical information repositories, available on cheap Wifi hotspots without Internet. It reads compressed "zim" files, offering a pre-packaged library of things like Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, RationalWiki, Linux install wikis, etc.
What does this have to do with KF? Well, you can request a generated zim file of any website, for free, with some limitations. I can't think of a more appropriate and important site to have eternal offline access than Kiwi Farms. But while Zimit accepts KF for scanning, it gets stopped cold by kiwiflare. The resulting zim file only has 1 page to browse.

This is not the only way to create a zim archive, there are several more, but it's the quickest and least complicated route.
So my general question is, has anyone else played around with Kiwix/zim and found a good way to grab KF? And to @Null, can we (when not under active DDOS) get a temporary alternate URL to the site that bypasses Kiwiflare, so we can try this tool? Or maybe allow its user agent to bypass kiwiflare, though that probably requires more work.
I've got my beans bullets and bullion, but I don't want to go through Doomsday without my KF fix too.
What does this have to do with KF? Well, you can request a generated zim file of any website, for free, with some limitations. I can't think of a more appropriate and important site to have eternal offline access than Kiwi Farms. But while Zimit accepts KF for scanning, it gets stopped cold by kiwiflare. The resulting zim file only has 1 page to browse.

This is not the only way to create a zim archive, there are several more, but it's the quickest and least complicated route.
So my general question is, has anyone else played around with Kiwix/zim and found a good way to grab KF? And to @Null, can we (when not under active DDOS) get a temporary alternate URL to the site that bypasses Kiwiflare, so we can try this tool? Or maybe allow its user agent to bypass kiwiflare, though that probably requires more work.
I've got my beans bullets and bullion, but I don't want to go through Doomsday without my KF fix too.