ZIMWRITERFS(1)

NAME
zimwriterfs - creates ZIM files from a locally-stored directory

SYNOPSIS
zimwriterfs [mandatory arguments] [optional arguments] HTML_DIRECTORY ZIM_FILE

DESCRIPTION

  Mandatory arguments:

-w, --welcome
    path of default/main HTML page. The path must be relative to HTML_DIRECTORY.

-f, --favicon
    path of ZIM file favicon. The path must be relative to HTML_DIRECTORY and the image a 48x48 PNG.

-l, --language
    language code of the content in ISO639-3

-t, --title
    title of the ZIM file

-d, --description
    short description of the content

-c, --creator
    creator(s) of the content

-p, --publisher
    creator of the ZIM file itself

HTML_DIRECTORY
    is the path of the directory containing the HTML pages you want to put in the ZIM file,

ZIM_FILE
    is the path of the ZIM file you want to obtain.

  Optional arguments:

-v, --verbose
    print processing details on STDOUT

-h, --help
    print this help

-m, --minChunkSize
    number of bytes per ZIM cluster (default: 2048)

-x, --inflateHtml
    try to inflate HTML files before packing (*.html, *.htm, ...)

-u, --uniqueNamespace
    put everything in the same namespace 'A'. Might be necessary to avoid problems with dynamic/javascript data loading.

-r, --redirects
    path to the TSV file with the list of redirects (url, title, target_url tab separated).

-i, --withFullTextIndex index the content and add it to the ZIM.

-a, --tags
    tags - semicolon separated

-n, --name
    custom (version independent) identifier for the content

EXAMPLE

zimwriterfs --welcome=index.html --favicon=m/favicon.png --language=fra --title=foobar --description=mydescription --creator=Wikipedia --publisher=Kiwix ./my_project_html_directory my_project.zim

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <https://github.com/openzim/zim-tools>.