mdn-local

download localized mozilla developer docs to local device

Summary

mdn-local is a project focusing to download the all the accessible docs and examples on MDN Web Docs for a specified locale, and resources required for running and viewing this in local device, or local-area network, making it (mostly) work without any external network access (meaning the internet).

For locales other than en-US, en-US docs would be fetched for pages not localized (not found on mdn).

Quick start

Goto releases, download a package (not the source code), extract it to some path of your drive, double-click index.html and enjoy your docs.

Usage

mdn-local is based on website-scrap-engine, the main entry in mdn-downloader.ts. Below is an example of using it to download mdn docs:

import createDownloader from './mdn-downloader.js';

createDownloader({
  // The path to download docs to
  localRoot: '/home/user1000/developer.mozilla.org_20230409_zh-CN',
  meta: {
    // The locale of MDN docs to get
    locale: 'zh-CN',
    // Configure if http2 is enabled for http connection
    http2: false,
    // Configure if ipv6 is prefered on dns lookuping
    preferIpv6: true
  }
}).then(d => d.onIdle().then(() => d.dispose()))
  .catch(console.error);

Large video handling

A set of large videos have been replaced into much smaller alternatives for faster download and smaller size of the package, see issue #1118 for more details. Check here for a full list of videos that are replaced.