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I'm gently surprised SO hasn't done a 6 month torrent of a stand-alone locally searchable SO. They could possibly do a monthly subscription download?

That'd help the people wanting to turn off the Internet.

EDIT: And, if you really need it, you can get Internet on a ship. It's hideously expensive, but that's okay. You just need to think before going online.

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We release an XML data dump every 3 months. It'd only be a bit of work to make it presentable and load it into something searchable. http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...

Could it be converted into a ZIM?

http://www.openzim.org/wiki/Main_Page

In fact, that work has already been done: http://stackapps.com/questions/3610/stackdump-an-offline-bro...

If someone could make this into an Android app with wifi hotspot functionality that would be awesome.

I wouldn't mind doing that, but not what sure you mean with "wifi hotspot functionality"?

I'm not sure what the original poster had in mind, but what I'm guessing (and what I would want) is making it a web UI so access could be shared easily to other people or devices.

I took it to mean "put it on your phone and let the phone serve it"

Yep, this. So I hit a button in the app, fire up the laptop and enter a url like 146.162.0.9:2020 to browse the offline stackoverflow.

An example of similar hotspotting would be the ftp app on f-droid.

Why not just server it on your laptop, locally?

> at least 20-30GB of space

What would be good would be if there was an easy way to filter the local database for specific tags before putting it on the phone.

This actually sounds quite interesting. I might just go and do it. The question is, will SO approve?

Edit: I'm guessing SO probably won't have an issue with it.

Thank you. Stack Overflow is like the wikipedia of tech knowledge.

I have used this iPhone app while programming on the trans-siberian express:

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/stackstash-stackoverflow-off...

It works but the experience is terrible. I'd be happy to throw money at a better app, in case anyone here is bored... :)

I know of at least one shop that does most of their work offline and keeps a local SO cache for exactly this purpose.

It would be really nice to be able to easily download whole (or parts) websites for offline use. One thing is SO, but maybe you also want the API of some specific library or language, some specific Wikipedia articles or whole topics on Wikipedia... does something like this exist?

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