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authorRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2019-03-19 15:38:44 +0000
committerRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2019-03-19 15:38:44 +0000
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@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ fetching the HTML:
wget -r --user=sra@hactrn.net --ask-password https://permatrac.noc.ietf.org/wiki/
+Slightly better recipe:
+
+ wget -m -R '*[?]*' --user=sra@hactrn.net --ask-password https://permatrac.noc.ietf.org/wiki/
+
+But either way, `wget` seems to be non-terminating when walking this
+site, even if it throws away .999 of what it retrieves. In theory,
+adding `-np` would have fixed this; in practice doing so causes it not
+to recurse at all. Grrr.
+
Scripts from rpki.net/doc/*/*.{sh,py,xsl}, included here under tools/.
The other approach is converting Trac wiki directly to markdown.
@@ -15,3 +24,7 @@ There are hacks for this, in Ruby:
But there are also Python versions, which are a bit more tractible.
Several of them included in tools/ too.
+
+
+The most promising approach looks to be `tools/trac2md.py`, which is a
+bit crude but is written in a relatively sane style so should be fixable.