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[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

I'm trying to find or build an application that can do the following:

• Display HTML pages stored on my computer
• Open links from one page to another

If HTML is infeasible, then something that does the above with plaintext would be almost as good.

(I am essentially trying to build my own offline wiki. It's for a competition that allows use of my computer but not the internet.)

[ChairmanPoo]

Any web browser will do that. The onus lies on making sure the html files are properly linked

[Caz]

I'm pretty sure you can download wikipedia, if that's what you are trying to do...? It's unclear.

Are you taking about putting a website on a local server instead of online? 

[wierd]

As CP stated, ANY browser can do this.

the thing is that you will need either relative path based links (easiest to move around, these are in the form of say-- (a href="/help.html")Example(/a)), or the links will need to be updated to fit their new location.

You can clone just about any website using wget. (you can tell it to ignore robot.txt, among other things, that normally prevent automated crawling of a site.)

[Trekkin]

I'm trying to find or build an application that can do the following:

• Display HTML pages stored on my computer
• Open links from one page to another

If HTML is infeasible, then something that does the above with plaintext would be almost as good.

(I am essentially trying to build my own offline wiki. It's for a competition that allows use of my computer but not the internet.)

If you'll permit me to do that annoying geeky "are you sure you want to do that" thing, this is going to be a lot of overhead for very little gain over a single large text document if all you want to do is look things up during a competition. Is there a reason you can't just search the plaintext for what you need?

[wierd]

Again, he can just clone wikipedia.

It already has a search function, and uses relative link syntax.

I am fairly sure that would be considered "cheating" though.

[George_Chickens]

You can use HTtrack to download whole websites, if that is what you are looking for.

[wierd]

wget as well.

https://fosswire.com/post/2008/04/create-a-mirror-of-a-website-with-wget/

[TWO CATATA]

1. Create text file, save as whatever.html instead of whatever.txt (to check you are doing this properly open any folder on your computer, at the top-left go to ''Organise'' ''> Folder and Search Options'', then the ''View'' tab, then untick the box that says ''Hide extensions for known file types'')

3. Open in Notepad or Notepad++ (better)

4. Write whatever you want, type

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<br> for line breaks, and

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<a href="whatever2.html">link like this</a>
5. If you can use "BB code" on forums you can write HTML and just did, "BB code" is mostly just replacing <> signs with [],

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<b>for bold</b> etc Open your new page in web browser



Or just use https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/web-scrapbook