# \[Nix@NGI\] MWOffliner packaged for NGI Forge

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-mwoffliner-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79511
**Category:** NGI Zero
**Created:** [August 10, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-mwoffliner-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79511 "2026-08-10T21:37:51Z")
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### Author: ![AhmedAmrNabil](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/ahmedamrnabil/32/37985_2.png) [@AhmedAmrNabil](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/AhmedAmrNabil)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-mwoffliner-packaged-for-ngi-forge/79511/1 "2026-08-10T21:37:51Z")

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[**MWOffliner**](https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner) is a tool that crawls any recent MediaWiki wiki and packages it into an offline ZIM snapshot for local browsing.

### Features

- Scrape with or without image thumbnails

- Scrape with or without audio/video multimedia content

- Image size optimization and WebP conversion

- Scrape all pages in namespaces or title list based

- Specify additional/non-main namespaces to scrape

Run `mwoffliner --help` to see all available options.

### Try it out

Visit the [application page](https://ngi.nixos.org/app/mwoffliner), launch MWOffliner in a shell environment and follow the usage instructions.

### Links

- Project Details

- [NGI Forge Tracking Issue](https://github.com/ngi-nix/projects/issues/595)

### Share your feedback

We’d like to hear from you, so please leave your feedback using this [short survey](https://cryptpad.ngi.nixos.org/form/#/2/form/view/3X1lzb3+XxsLUq-TygwGn-R3aHcvwuNo3L7Ya8Z1VWo/).

Alternatively, you can join the:

- [office hours on Jitsi](https://jitsi.lassul.us/ngi-nix-office-hours) every [Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00–16:00 CET/CEST](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=b9o52fobqjak8oq8lfkhg3t0qg@group.calendar.google.com)

- [NGIpkgs Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#ngipkgs:matrix.org)

for any further comments or questions.

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This work has been done by @AhmedAmrNabil as part of the [Nix@NGI packaging effort](https://nixos.org/community/teams/ngi), funded by [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) under the NGI0 Core grant(s).