Download or build offline MDN JavaScript docs

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MDN javascript docs

for offline use
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 ?
Asked By: Pierre || Source
Answer #1:
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
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And others : don't mirror with wget & co, this

is putting un-needed pressure on the website
PY4U.NET and hinders other users. At least make sure BOO
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 ).
Answered By: Pierre
Answer #2:
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.
Answered By: zerodeux
Answer #3:
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 .
Answered By: Thibaut
Answer #4:
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.
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PY4U.NET Answer #5: BOO
download wget and use it to mirror the doc :
wget -m -p
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Ref
erence
Answered By: user4815162342
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29/11/2021 12:34 MDN javascript docs for offline use

MDN javascript docs

I am not the website's owner nor developer, and

My first thought was to inject an HTML5

Then I've tried pointing to my local manifest

After googling a bit, I stumbled upon their

I have considered saving the HTML

pages using the browser's Save As

Where can I find an offline version of MDN Docs

Asked By: Pierre || Source

The "Downloading content" section of About MDN

access the MDN content, both as single pages Book now

and via third-party tools.

And others : don't mirror with wget & co, this

Answered By: Pierre

The app is open source and can be run offline:

It's easy to set up and doesn't require

Answered By: zerodeux

Answered By: Thibaut

It's an all-in-one documentation site which can

Answered By: bogdansrc

Book your action-

PY4U.NET Answer #5: BOO

download wget and use it to mirror the doc :

Answered By: user4815162342

The answers/resolutions are collected from

Are fluid websites worth making anymore? [closed]

How to test a webpage meant for Retina display?

How to force vim to syntax-highlight a file as html?

What are best practices to order elements in <head>?

Inspect hovered element in Chrome?

How to position two divs horizontally within another div

How to change the text of a label?

How do you turn off auto-capitalisation in HTML form

jquery get all input from specific form

Bootstrap table without stripe / borders

Find closing HTML tag in Sublime Text

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