Hi, all!

Tomorrow night, I have a plane flight. I was planning on writing more of my own fanfiction, but quickly discovered that I would not have internet. Fortunately, wget came to my rescue, and I was able to download all of HP Lexicon (bar the blogs). I'll certainly be using this while I'm on my flight tomorrow!

One great thing about this is that pages will load instantly since it's all locally stored. Nothing will need to be pulled from the internet!

Note: These do NOT violate any sort of copyright or licensing. Essentially, all you are doing is loading the entire website at once and storing it.


Instant Download
If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, I've put together a download here. (Google Drive)




How To Use
Extract the downloaded .zip into a folder. Simply double-click on the index-2.html file, and open it - it should open in your local browser. If not, point your browser to that file manually (e.g. put the file path into your browser's address bar).
If a page doesn't load (404 error), try finding it in the directory manually and opening it from there. For example, if you get a 404 error when you try to load *http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/places/azkaban.html*, manually navigate to the "wizworld" folder in the download, then the "places" folder, and load azkaban.html.
DIY: For the techies or paranoid
Or if you want to do it yourself, the code to download everything is

Code:

wget --recursive --page-requisites --convert-links http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

to download the entire website. Warning: the entire website is 2.1 GB, but a video and the blog directory take up about 2.0 GB! This is because of the MP3 podcasts and video files dating years back. (I've excluded these in my provided download) So I recommend excluding those, since you probably won't need them.

So a better command would be

Code:

wget --recursive --page-requisites --exclude-directories=/blog/,/lumos/ --convert-links http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

This command should work fine on Mac and most Linux distros. I'm using Windows - so you can get Cygwin (don't forget to enable wget in setup, it's disabled by default) or something lightweight, like a wget executable and just run the command from the directory the executable is in.

x-posted from my post on Reddit (/r/HPfanfiction, /r/harrypotter).

 

Alternatively... download the PDF of the HP Lexicon Encyclopaedia that was published by the court as evidence in RDR Books v Warner Brothers & JK Rowling.