libzim 0.1

A python-facing API for creating and interacting with ZIM files

python-libzim

The Python bindings for libzim.

This library allows you to interact with .zim files via Python.

It just provides a shallow Python interface on top of the libzim C++ library (maintained by OpenZIM).

It is primarily used by sotoki.

Installation

# Install from PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/libzim/
pip3 install libzim

Quickstart

Reader API

from libzim.reader import File

f = File("test.zim")
article = f.get_article("article/url.html")
print(article.url, article.title)
if not article.is_redirect():
    print(article.content)

Write API

See example for a basic usage of the writer API.

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User Documentation

Setup: Ubuntu/Debian and macOS x86_64 (Recommended)

Install the python libzim package from PyPI.

pip3 install libzim

The x86_64 linux and macOS wheels automatically includes the libzim.(so|dylib) dylib and headers, but other platforms may need to install libzim and its headers manually.

Installing the libzim dylib and headers manually

If you are not on a linux or macOS x86_64 platform, you will have to install libzim manually.

Either by get a prebuilt binary at https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim or compile libzim from source.

If you have not installed libzim in standard directory, you will have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to allow python to find the library :

Assuming you have extracted (or installed) the library if LIBZIM_DIR:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LIBZIM_DIR}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

Setup: Docker (Optional)

docker build . --tag openzim:python-libzim

# Run a custom script inside the container
docker run -it openzim:python-libzim ./some_example_script.py

# Or use the python repl interactively
docker run -it openzim:python-libzim
>>> import libzim

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Developer Documentation

These instructions are for developers working on the python-libzim source code itself. If you are simply a user of the library and you don't intend to change its internal source code, follow the User Documentation instructions above instead.

Setup: Ubuntu/Debian

Note: Make sure you've installed libzim dylib + headers first (see above).

apt install coreutils wget git ca-certificates \
        g++ pkg-config libtool automake autoconf make meson ninja-build \
        liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libicu-dev libgumbo-dev libmagic-dev

pip3 install --upgrade pip pipenv

export CFLAGS="-I${LIBZIM_DIR}/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L${LIBZIM_DIR}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
git clone https://github.com/openzim/python-libzim
cd python-libzim
python setup.py build_ext
pipenv install --dev
pipenv run pip install -e .

Setup: Docker

docker build . -f Dockerfile.dev --tag openzim:python-libzim-dev

docker run -it openzim:python-libzim-dev ./some_example_script.py

docker run -it openzim:python-libzim-dev
$ black . && flake8 . && pytest .
$ pipenv install --dev <newpackagehere>
$ python setup.py build_ext
$ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
$ python setup.py install
$ python -c "import libzim"

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Common Tasks

Run Linters & Tests

# Autoformat code with black
black --exclude=setup.py .
# Lint and check for errors with flake8
flake8 --exclude=setup.py .
# Typecheck with mypy (optional)
mypy .
# Run tests
pytest .

Rebuild Cython extension during development

rm libzim/libzim.cpp
rm -Rf build
rm -Rf *.so
python setup.py build_ext
python setup.py install

Build package sdist and bdist_wheels for PyPI

python setup.py build_ext
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

# upload to PyPI (caution: this is done automatically via Github Actions)
twine upload dist/*

Use a specific libzim dylib and headers when compiling python-libzim

export CFLAGS="-I${LIBZIM_DIR}/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L${LIBZIM_DIR}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LIBZIM_DIR}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
python setup.py build_ext
python setup.py install

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Further Reading

Related Projects

• https://github.com/openzim/sotoki
• https://framagit.org/mgautierfr/pyzim
• https://github.com/pediapress/pyzim
• https://github.com/jarondl/pyzimmer/blob/master/pyzimmer/zim_writer.py

Research

• https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/AutoPxd
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YReJ3pSnNDo
• https://github.com/openzim/zim-tools/blob/master/src/zimrecreate.cpp
• https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/enchancements-inherit_CPP_classes
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cython-users/vAB9hbLMxRg

Debugging

• https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/userguide/debugging.html
• https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/DebuggingTechniques
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2663841/python-tracing-a-segmentation-fault
• https://cython-devel.python.narkive.com/cW3Cn1th/debugging-a-segfault-in-a-cython-generated-module
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cython-users/B_Sxj2NV1PE

Packaging

• https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/
• https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq/
• https://github.com/pypa/manylinux
• https://github.com/RalfG/python-wheels-manylinux-build/blob/master/full_workflow_example.yml
• https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-binary-extensions/#publishing-binary-extensions

License

GPLv3 or later, see LICENSE for more details.