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phetscraper

v2.5.0

Published

Scraper and exporter of PHET simulations

Downloads

7

Readme

PhET Simulations scraper

This scraper creates offline versions in ZIM format of PhET science simulations for Science and Math.

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Requirements

It requires Node.js version 16 or higher.

Quick Start

npm i && npm start

The above will eventually output a ZIM file to dist/

Command line arguments

--withoutLanguageVariants uses to exclude languages with Country variant. For example en_CA will not be present in zim with this argument.

Available only on GET step:

--withoutLanguageVariants ...

Available on GET and EXPORT steps only:

--includeLanguages lang_1 [lang_2] [lang_3] ...
--excludeLanguages lang_1 [lang_2] [lang_3] ...

Available on EXPORT step only:

# Skip ZIM files for individual languages
--mulOnly

Example:

npm run get -- --includeLanguages en ru fr

Config

Another way to configure behaviour is through environment variables. Sample .env file (with default values):

# request per second, affects GET step only
PHET_RPS=8
# async workers on TRANSFORM step (keep it equal to number of CPU cores)
PHET_WORKERS=10
# number of retries on GET step (delay grow with exponential backoff)
PHET_RETRIES=5
# display verbose errors
PHET_VERBOSE_ERRORS=false

About

This project achieves multiple things:

  • Download PhET content
  • Generate an Index for said content
  • Generate ZIM file(s) containing content and index

Things this project does not yet do, but should:

  • Generate Android APK

Usage

The functionality is split into 5 npm scripts:

  • npm run setup - deletes state from previous runs
  • npm run get - downloads PhET simulations in specified languages
  • npm run transform - prepare the content and media files
  • npm run export - generates ZIM file(s)
  • npm start - runs all of the above in sequence

The steps get, transform and export have their own output directories:

  • get outputs HTML and PNG files to state/get
  • transform outputs intermediate files to state/transform
  • export outputs HTML and PNG files to state/export AND a ZIM file(s) to dist/

License

Apache or later, see LICENSE for more details.