elasticsearch downloadable manual

Question

Does anyone know where I can find a downloadable manual (any format) for elasticsearch? http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/ is OK, but sometimes the site is not reachable, and searching for content is not practical.

Answer 1

Not that I am aware of. You can fork and run the site locally if you have problems with it not being reachable which btw never happens for me. It is available on github: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/docs

Answer 2

Cloning the repo is useless. You cannot build their docs since the asciidoc files for the build --all command are access protected.

The only solution is to crawl their site, for example with wget:

wget -r -l1 --page-requisites -N --convert-links -E robots=off "https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/index.html"

the index.html contains all the links of the doc subdirectories, so you can specify -l1 which will make wget crawl only one level deep

note that you cannot use the search function on crawled docs since there is no server running in the background