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Add a way to easily download Evopedia archives #19

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mossroy opened this issue Jul 1, 2013 · 3 comments
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Add a way to easily download Evopedia archives #19

mossroy opened this issue Jul 1, 2013 · 3 comments

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mossroy commented Jul 1, 2013

It's a bit complicated for the end-user to download an archive separately (with a bittorrent client), then to put it on the sdcard of its phone. It might be a blocker for some.

An idea would be to put a bittorrent client inside Evopedia (as in the original application). The archive could be downloaded directly from it.
Maybe using http://btappjs.com/ or a similar library.

In any case, downloading all these GBytes will take numerous hours, and should be done through an unlimited internet connection (i.e. usually WiFi instead of 3G/4G)

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mossroy commented Jul 28, 2013

I was told that btappjs would not enable me to download with Bittorrent in pure javascript.

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mossroy commented Sep 22, 2013

https://github.com/kzahel/jstorrent is a pure javascript bittorrent implementation.
It currently only works on Chrome but might be ported to Firefox with DeviceStorage API.
I suggested the idea to the main contributor. He liked the idea : kzahel/jstorrent#15 (comment)
But, since then, all the code/issues have disappeared from Github, "due to licensing issues". I hope this is only temporary.

It would have been a way to delegate the downloading (through WebActivities), or to integrate it in the application (if the license permits it)

@mossroy mossroy modified the milestones: v1.2, v1.3 Aug 19, 2014
@mossroy mossroy changed the title Add a way to easily download archives Add a way to easily download Evopedia archives May 4, 2015
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mossroy commented Jan 16, 2016

I close this issue as "wontfix" : the Evopedia archive format is now deprecated.
ZIM files can be downloaded through HTTP (and also via Bittorrent, but it would be easier with HTTP when downloading from a device). See #114

@mossroy mossroy closed this as completed Jan 16, 2016
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