How is wiki-to-print made?

Technically seen, wiki-to-print is a web application made with Flask, that can be installed on the same server as where the MediaWiki is installed.

In practice, it's a DIY configuration that glues different things together: it takes a wiki page and a CSS stylesheet as input sources and renders them into a HTML page and a PDF preview page.

Code

The source code can be found at: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/wiki-to-print/.

The git repository contains the following files and folders:

├── Makefile
├── api.py
├── plugins
├── readme.md
├── requirements.txt
├── static
├── templates
├── update.py
└── web-interface.py

• web-interface.py: the flask application
• api.py: script with all the functions that are used by the flask application

To install wiki-to-print

• make setup: makes a virtual environment and installs all the requirements
• edit config.json

To run wiki-to-print

• make local: runs the Flask application locally
• make server: runs the Flask application remotely with Gunicorn, which we used to work with a subdirectory (we use https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki-to-print/ as the root of this Flask application)

Flask application

The Flask application is based around the following URLs/routes:

button	URL/route	Flask action
CSS	https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki-to-print/static/Test.css	renders PdfCSS:Test as CSS stylesheet
HTML	https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki-to-print/html/Test	renders Pdf:Test as HTML page, using PdfCSS:Test as CSS stylesheet
PDF	https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki-to-print/pdf/Test	renders Pdf:Test as PDF preview page (using Paged.js), using PdfCSS:Test as CSS stylesheet
Update text	https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki-to-print/update/Test	downloads all the text from Pdf:Test using the Mediawiki API and saves it to Test.json (in HTML)
Update Media	https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki-to-print/update/Test?full=true	downloads all the text + images from Pdf:Test using the Mediawiki API and saves them to ./static/images/