html2Dash

html2Dash is an Documentation Set generator intended to be used with the Dash.app API browser for OS X or one of its many clones. Which is folk from selfboot, but updated to python3 and support utf-8. html2Dash is just like doc2dash but generating docset from any HTML documentations.

If you’ve never heard of Dash.app, you’re missing out: together with html2Dash it’s all your API documentation at your fingertips!

Third part library required:

beautifulsoup4==4.3.2

It’s tested on Python 3.9.13, Win 10.

How to Use

The usage is as simple as:

$ html2Dash <htmldir>

html2dash will create a new directory called <htmldir>.docset in ~/Library/Application Support/html2dash/DocSets containing a Dash.app-compatible docset. When finished, the docset is automatically added to Dash.app.

Options and Arguments

The full usage is:

$ doc2dash [OPTIONS] SOURCE

The SOURCE is a directory containing the HTML documents you would like to convert.

Valid OPTIONS are the following:

• -n, --name

  Name the docset explicitly instead of letting doc2dash guess the correct name from the directory name of the source.

• -d PATH, --destination PATH

  Put the resulting docset into PATH. Default is the directory ~/Library/Application Support/html2dash/DocSets

• -i FILENAME, --icon FILENAME

  Add PNG icon FILENAME to docset that is used within Dash.app to represent the docset.

• -p INDEX_PAGE, --index-page INDEX_PAGE

  Set the file that is shown when the docset is clicked within Dash.app.

• -h, --help

  Show a brief usage summary and exit.

DEPENDENCIES:

• BeautifulSoup HTML parsing library

Demo

Generate the Docset for requests: requests.docset. Command：

$ ./html2dash.py -n requests -i ~/Documents/requests-sidebar.png ~/Documents/requests
Create the Docset Folder!
Copy the HTML Documentation!
Create the SQLite Index
Create the Info.plist File
Create the Icon for the Docset!
Generate Docset Successfully!