SingleFile/maff2html

Convert MAFF to HTML with SingleFile

Introduction

SingleFile can be launched from the command line to convert MAFF files to HTML files by running it into Firefox. It runs through Node.js as a standalone script injected into the web page instead of being embedded into a WebExtension. It uses Selenium WebDriver to connect Node.js to Firefox.

This is a work in progress.

Install

• Install Firefox version 56.0.2

• Make sure the executable of Firefox can be found through the PATH environment variable. Otherwise you will need to set the --browser-executable-path option to help SingleFile locating it.

• Install Node.js

• Unzip the master archive somewhere on your disk in an empty folder.

$ unzip master.zip .

• Go into the maff2html folder.

$ cd maff2html

• Install dependencies with npm (installed with Node.js).

$ npm install

• Make single-file executable (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.).

$ chmod +x single-file

• Extract and copy the Mozilla geckodriver version 0.20.1 executable in the maff2html folder.

Run

• Syntax

$ ./single-file <url> [output] [options ...] (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.)

> single-file <url> [output] [options ...] (Windows)

• Display help

$ ./single-file --help (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.)

> single-file --help (Windows)

• Examples

  • Convert wikipedia.maff (located in the user folder) to wikipedia.html

$ ./single-file file:///home/gildas/wikipedia.maff wikipedia.html (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.)

> single-file file:///C:/Users/Gildas/wikipedia.maff wikipedia.html (Windows)

• Convert wikipedia.maff to wikipedia.html with Firefox installed in the folder "~/firefox-56.0.2/" (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.) or "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 56.0.2\" (Windows)

$ ./single-file file:///home/gildas/wikipedia.maff wikipedia.html --browser-executable-path=~/firefox-56.0.2/firefox (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.)

> single-file file:///C:/Users/Gildas/wikipedia.maff wikipedia.html --browser-executable-path="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 56.0.2\firefox" (Windows)

License

SingleFile is licensed under AGPL and GPL. Code derived from third-party projects is licensed under MIT. Please contact me at gildas.lormeau <at> gmail.com if you are interested in licensing the SingleFile code for a commercial service or product.