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test: hold the frontend fixtures to the API's own OpenAPI spec
The React specs stub API responses with app/src/test-fixtures.js, and nothing
connected those to the API.  They were a snapshot of whatever each endpoint
returned when someone last wrote one out by hand, and they had drifted.

The chain is now guarded in two links, because the spec was not trustworthy
either:

    handler  <->  OpenAPI spec  <->  test-fixtures.js

What the guards found on their first run:

/api/settings publishes a spec declaring hotspot_status and throttle_status,
which moved to the Controller and which the handler had long stopped returning --
/docs was promising callers two fields the endpoint never sends -- while omitting
four it does send.  settingsFixture was missing seven real fields, so any spec
intercepting that endpoint handed the app a body with seven holes in it and every
assertion about the rest still passed.

/api/status was further gone: the spec declared seven fields the handler does not
return and omitted seven it does.  statusFixture was missing seventeen and
invented two -- cpu_percent and memory_percent, which no endpoint has ever
returned and no component has ever read.  They came from a hand-written cypress
body and had been copied onwards from there, including by me last week.

Both response dataclasses now describe what the handlers actually return.  Half
of /api/status is assembled from shared_ctx.status, which is what made it look
undeclarable, but that dict is seeded with a fixed set of keys in contexts.py and
the worker only ever updates those -- so it is declarable, and now declared.

Uncoverable fixtures are listed rather than left looking covered: domainFixture
and tagFixture stand in for endpoints whose @openapi.definition carries a
description and no response=, so the spec promises nothing about their bodies,
and fileWorkerStatusFixture has no declared shape at either end because that
context's default is null by design (useFileWorkerStatus relies on it to detect a
missing provider).  Declaring a response on one of those endpoints is how its
line comes off the list.

Both links were verified by adding a field to the handler and watching them fire
in sequence: first the spec check, then -- once the schema was updated -- the
fixture check.  The fixture reader itself had a bug the guards caught: its regex
excluded digits, so it reported is_rpi4 and is_rpi5 as missing from a fixture
that had them.  Its own guard now covers that.

1706 pytest, 986 jest, 46 e2e.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.circleci Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
.github Splitting dependabot PRs to avoid massive breaking PRs. 2026-05-03 12:18:39 -06:00
.run Video downloads have many more options. Downloads are migrated. 2024-11-28 09:48:57 -07:00
alembic SQLite: make the browse pages index-only. 2026-07-14 07:46:29 -06:00
app test: hold the frontend fixtures to the API's own OpenAPI spec 2026-07-30 17:00:56 -06:00
controller controller: de-duplicate the hardware toggles 2026-07-29 19:48:08 -06:00
debian-live-config zim: ship a default fallback Zim and honor the configured Zim directory 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
docker zim: ship a default fallback Zim and honor the configured Zim directory 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
etc install: always install serve; resolve it via PATH in wrolpi-app 2026-07-23 18:21:58 -06:00
modules zim: address PR review — config race, YAML null, path traversal, pinned build 2026-07-20 19:10:09 -06:00
pi-gen zim: ship a default fallback Zim and honor the configured Zim directory 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
release Retrying build image uploads multiple times before failing release attempt. 2026-06-11 19:46:31 -06:00
scripts install: always install serve; resolve it via PATH in wrolpi-app 2026-07-23 18:21:58 -06:00
test Modifying Video/Channel/RSS Downloaders so that they can download videos, but audio only. These audio files are grouped under their channel directories. 2026-04-14 15:33:01 -06:00
wrolpi test: hold the frontend fixtures to the API's own OpenAPI spec 2026-07-30 17:00:56 -06:00
.coveragerc Adding coverage config which ignores non-API directories. 2024-10-16 18:56:03 -06:00
.dockerignore A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
.gitignore Remove stale Postgres references after SQLite cutover. 2026-07-18 13:28:54 -06:00
.gitmodules Adding FileGroup.published_date/author/etc. Creating script which converts a Singlefile to an Archive FileGroup files. 2023-10-23 18:09:08 -06:00
.gitpod.yml Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
.mcp.json.example Removing WROLPi admin functionality that is now in Controller. 2025-12-19 18:41:27 -07:00
alembic.ini Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
conftest.py Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
demo_link.jpg Replacing demo image. 2023-01-30 13:27:26 -07:00
docker-compose.yml Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
help.sh help.sh: move DB integrity scan out of startup diagnostics 2026-07-22 19:47:35 -06:00
icon.ico A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
icon.png Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
INSTALL.md Docs: recommend Raspberry Pi Imager instead of Etcher. 2026-07-03 18:58:54 -06:00
install.sh Disambiguate 'git checkout release' in install.sh 2026-06-27 13:57:27 -06:00
join_discord.png A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
LICENSE A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
main.py Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
pytest.ini FileGroups in Collections can be reorganized in the Collection's directory. 2026-01-31 18:08:41 -07:00
README.md Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
repair.sh repair: copy wrolpi/blobs into /opt/wrolpi-blobs on install and upgrade 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
requirements.txt Bump safe dependencies (combined Dependabot updates) 2026-07-15 20:07:21 -06:00
test_all.sh Creating test_all.sh script to run all frontend and backend tests. 2025-12-17 15:11:57 -07:00
UPGRADE.md Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
upgrade.sh Upgrade: mark the pinned GPG key trusted in the throwaway keyring. 2026-07-06 20:57:01 -06:00

WROLPi

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Create your own off-grid library.

WROLPi Logo

WROLPi is a self-contained collection of software to help you survive the world Without Rule of Law.

WROLPi is intended to be run on a Raspberry Pi with an optional external drive attached. It serves up it's own Wi-Fi network so that any user with a laptop/tablet/phone can connect and use the library created by the maintainer.

Table of Contents

Features

  • Videos
  • Web Archives
  • Maps
  • Wikipedia
  • File search
  • eBooks (EPUB / PDFs)
  • Wi-Fi Hotspot
  • Universal search
  • Food Inventory management
  • One-Time pad generator, encrypter/decrypter
  • Synchronizer/duplicator
  • Food storage calculator

Module features matrix

Module View Search Download Project
Videos yes yes yes yt-dlp
Web Archives yes yes yes Singlefile
Wikipedia yes yes yes Kiwix
eBooks yes yes planned EPUB/PDF
Map yes yes yes Protomaps
Podcasts/Audio yes planned planned

Demo

YouTube Demo Video

Download

Images are available at wrolpi.org

Try WROLPi!

You can try out WROLPi by running the docker containers.

  1. Install docker-ce and docker-compose
  2. Copy the latest WROLPi code.
    • git clone https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi.git
  3. Change directory into the code base.
    • cd wrolpi
  4. Initialize git submodules
    • git submodule update --init
  5. Build the containers.
    • docker-compose build --parallel
  6. Create volumes.
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-data
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-rendered-tiles
  7. Initialize the database (SQLite in the media directory).
    • docker-compose run --rm api db upgrade
  8. Start the docker containers.
    • docker-compose up
  9. Browse to WROLPi.

More Docker documentation is available in docker/README.md

Install WROLPi

Full installation instructions are in INSTALL.md. Pick the option that matches your hardware:

  • WROLPi Portable (Live USB) — boot a complete WROLPi from a USB stick on any x86 PC or laptop. Nothing is installed to the computer; the first boot creates a persistence partition on the USB so your library, database, and configuration survive reboots.
  • Debian 12 — install WROLPi onto an x86 PC or laptop.
  • Raspberry Pi — install WROLPi onto a Raspberry Pi with an external drive.
  • Docker — run the WROLPi containers on an existing Linux host.

Charter

Guiding Principals

  1. Storage is cheaper than power.
  2. Two is one, one is none.
  3. Run silently.
  4. Primary, secondary, tertiary.
  5. Secure as a bookshelf in your home.

Physical properties

  1. A WROLPi instance should be capable of running with a minimal of hardware:
    • Raspberry Pi
    • SD card
    • External USB hard drive
    • Power supply and cables
    • Wi-Fi USER device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop.
  2. A WROLPi instance should consume a minimal amount of electricity during WROL event. It is expected power will be scarce when WROLPi is needed most.

User expectations

  1. A WROLPi instance should be run and maintained by a person (MAINTAINER) with a moderate amount of Linux and Raspberry Pi experience. It is expected that they should be able to do this using only the documentation on their WROLPi.

Software properties and capabilities

  1. A WROLPi instance should be able to "factory-reset" itself without any outside services.
  2. WROLPi should function completely without any internet services.
  3. A user should have easy access to their data if WROLPi fails:
    • For example, a user can watch their videos by navigating a short and intuitive directory structure and opening the video in their preferred video player.
  4. WROLPi should be self-documented. The UI should contain a tutorial for USERS as well as the MAINTAINER.
    • If the UI isn't functional, the code should be documented such that a user can restore functionality.
  5. WROLPi should favor pre-processing, rather than processing during a WROL event. Such as re-encoding a video, or processing captions. This is to ensure that when a user adds content during non-WROL time, the processing for optimum performance is already done for a WROL event.

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