Does anyone know if there is any way to download the entire Keyboard Maestro wiki for offline use, such as in HTML or PDF form?
A large part of the wiki is the User Manual. You can get the entire User Manual on a single page here:
https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/manual/Single_Page_Version
Since it's on a single page, you can get any browser to "save" that page locally on your Mac.
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Using Terminal, it's relatively easy to download the entire wiki, but I'm not sure how @peternlewis would feel about my sharing the command, so I'm not going to post it. Why? Because the complete wiki is over 250MB in size, and consists of over 8,000 separate files.
If I post the command and everyone decides to download the wiki, it might affect the server and/or Peter's bandwidth bill. However, there's a bigger issue: Even after downloading, you'd have a bunch of search and replacing to do to make it truly an offline resource.
Every link that goes to the wiki must be edited to go to your local disk copy of the wiki instead. BBEdit and similar make this easier, but you still have to make sure you get the format right, otherwise you'll mess up several hundred thousand links with the click of a button :).
In short, I don't know that downloading the wiki is worth the effort involved ... but if Peter says he's OK with people doing it, I can post the command I used. Personally, I'd stick with @Airy's suggestion to just grab the user manual.
-rob.
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There is a PDF of the manual linked from the wiki User Manual.
But yeah, please don't download the entire wiki (there are enough issues with bots and LLM crap doing that already), and its hard to imagine any good reason to want the entire thing available offline.
Also note you can search the wiki from within Keyboard Maestro in the Help menu.
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