Re: offline documentation package

All,

Sorry about the multiple postings on this.

Dave Brown pointed out that TJ's solution seems to be a good one:

    wget -r -l0 -p -np -nH -k http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/

I just tried this on my Mac and it worked well. It looks like
it removes the beginning "/" from the path names, thus removing
the absolute links.

Any links that are outside of "Document" are turned into
full "http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/" links.

--Mary

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, TJ wrote:

> Assuming you have wget installed on your system, wget works nicely to
> pull down the documentation.
> Unfortunately, the ncl server doesn't provide timestamp information, so
> updating at a later time will require a complete new download.
>
> To use it go to the directory on your machine where you want the
> documentation, then issue the command
>
> wget -r -l0 -p -np -nH -k http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/
>
> These options mean:
> -r recursive
> -l0 all available levels
> -p page requisites (images, css files, javascript etc)
> -np don't take things from parent directories
> -nH don't create a new directory www.ncl.ucar.edu
> -k convert all links to relative links on your local machine
> -nc (don't over write existing files)
>
> If timestamping were available, substitute -T for -nc and newer versions
> will overwrite existing files.
>
> If done as above, the output will be put into a subdirectory called
> Document.
> You can then stay in the same directory and issue the same command for
> the URL
> wget -r -l0 -p -np -nH -k http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/
> to download all the examples and their explanations.
>
> TJ Olney
>
>
>
>
>
> Mary Haley wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> We've gotten a few requests like this in the past, but not really
>> enough to warrant doing something like this on a regular basis.
>>
>> I don't know much about using wget to pull down web documentation,
>> but it seems like you could automate this somehow? (Maybe somebody
>> else can jump in here.)
>>
>> Our website depends on styles sheets, so you would need to
>> have this set up at your end to work, I think.
>>
>> You can try it:
>>
>> ftp ftp.ucar.edu
>> <log in as "anonymous">
>> <Use email address as password>
>> cd /pub/scd/haley
>> get NclDocument.tar.gz
>> quit
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Mary Haley
>> haley _at_ ucar.edu
>> NCAR/CISL/VETS
>> 1850 Table Mesa Dr
>> Boulder, CO 80305
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Rob Nicholas wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hey NCL developers,
>>>
>>> Would you consider providing an "offline" version of the web-based NCL
>>> documentation? I often find myself working somewhere with sketchy or
>>> non-existent internet access (thanks to the fact that NCL works so
>>> well on my Mac laptop) but wanting to look up things like function
>>> syntax or a plotting example.
>>>
>>> Something as simple as a regularly-updated tarball containing
>>> everything under http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/ (excluding the
>>> external NCAR Graphics, PyNGL, and PyNIO stuff) would do the trick. I
>>> know I could accomplish this myself by pulling everything down with
>>> wget, but this is less than ideal.
>>>
>>> [If other NCL users would also find an offline version of the
>>> documentation useful, please weigh in here (or contact the developers
>>> directly) to indicate your support.]
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rob
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