kiwix-hotspot vs wi-page

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kiwix-hotspot		wi-page
	Project
6	Mentions	2
69	Stars	1
-	Growth	-
4.7	Activity	0.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Jinja	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

kiwix-hotspot

Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwix-hotspot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-17.

Installing hotspot installer on Windows
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 9 Dec 2023

OK, I found this in the CHANGELOG:
Can I pull the power on a headless Zero 2 W running Kiwix Hotspot?
3 projects | /r/Kiwix | 17 Feb 2022

But since you've found the repo and are not the first one to ask, feel free to open a feature request at https://github.com/offspot/kiwix-hotspot/issues
Using screen for kiwis
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 13 Feb 2022

Edit: it actually is a feature request and has been scheduled for the next milestone.
Hotspot installer 2.4 is out!
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 19 May 2021

This update is fairly important as it corrects a number of limitations that were on Raspberry Hotspots. The full changelog is here but here's what really matters:
Kiwix pi hotspot not working.
2 projects | /r/Kiwix | 22 Apr 2021

The FAQ indicates that RPi 4 manufactured from late 2020 on are not supported, but I also see that this ticket has been closed last week, so the upcoming 2.4 release should fix that.

wi-page

Posts with mentions or reviews of wi-page. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-10.

Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2022

[4] https://github.com/altilunium/wi-page (Scrap wikipedia to get most active contributors that contribute to a certain article)
Show HN: Wi-Page – Rank Wikipedia Article's Contributors by Byte Counts
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kiwix-hotspot and wi-page you can also consider the following projects:

kiwix-js-pwa - Kiwix JS Offline Browser implemented as a Progressive Web App (PWA), and packaged as Electron, NWJS and UWP apps for Windows and Linux.

estela - estela, an elastic web scraping cluster 🕸

kiwix-android - Kiwix for Android

danker - Compute PageRank on >3 billion Wikipedia links on off-the-shelf hardware.

sherlock - 🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

scrapy-redis - Redis-based components for Scrapy.

kiwix-desktop - Kiwix for Windows and GNU/Linux desktops

polite - Be nice on the web

kiwix-tools - Command line Kiwix tools: kiwix-serve, kiwix-manage, ...

curl-impersonate - curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox

Mediawiker - A plugin for Sublime Text editor that adds possibility to use it as Wiki Editor on MediaWiki-based sites like Wikipedia and many other.

chrome-aws-lambda - Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions