paper-pedia

A lightweight wrapper for wikipedia written in Python and Go (and plain JS) optimized for e-book readers. These optimizations include:

• replacing continuous scrolling with discrete pages (swipe or use </> buttons)
• a button controlled zoom setting
• a simple search function

Disclaimer: Probably !! not secure !! as content (html) is pulled from wikipedia and blindly injected into the page w/o sanity checks! Written in a day :)

Article Reader

Search Page

Deployment

• run either the backend.py in a venv (requirements provided, not dockerized yet)
• or run the backend.go (on parity, no dependencies):
  • as a systemd service (in /etc/systemd/system/paper-pedia.service):

  • [Unit]
    Description=paper-pedia
    After=network.target
    
    [Service]
    ExecStart=<your path>/paper-pedia
    Restart=always
    RestartSec=5