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Cache Google AppEngine documentation locally for offline use

The biggest problem when developing offline is the unavailability of documentation.

Google AppEngine used to provide a downloadable tar ball of its documentation, but doesn't seem to do so any more. So how do I get a local version of the AppEngine documentation, along with the ability to update it when required?

Solution

  • The solution to my problem turned out to be to use wget to create a local mirror of GAE/J's documentation.

    pushd ~/Docs
wget --mirror -nH -np --page-requisites --convert-links --cut-dirs=3 \
    -P GAEJ \
    https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/

    Since the Q&A format of StackOverflow favours to-the-point answers, I wrote up a blog post with some more details (and for a more general use case): Downloading or Caching (Technical) Documentation.