Fix handling of '--collection' parameter + add '--tmp' + enhance logging

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Added
+
+- `--tmp` parameter (optional)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- `--collection` parameter was not working (#252)
+
 ## [1.6.2] - 2023-11-17
 
 ### Changed

zimit.py

@@ -308,8 +308,12 @@ def zimit(args=None):
         action="store_true",
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument("--output", help="Output directory for ZIM", default="/output")
+
     parser.add_argument(
-        "--output", help="Output directory for ZIM and WARC files", default="/output"
+        "--tmp",
+        help="Temporary directory for WARC files (if not set, will be created"
+        "as a temporary subdir of output directory)",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument("--adminEmail", help="Admin Email for Zimit crawler")
@@ -377,8 +381,11 @@ def zimit(args=None):
         print("Exiting, invalid warc2zim params")
         return 2
 
-    # make temp dir for this crawl
+    if zimit_args.tmp:
-    temp_root_dir = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(dir=zimit_args.output, prefix=".tmp"))
+        temp_root_dir = Path(zimit_args.tmp)
+    else:
+        # make temp dir for this crawl
+        temp_root_dir = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(dir=zimit_args.output, prefix=".tmp"))
 
     if not zimit_args.keep:
 
@@ -430,14 +437,29 @@ def zimit(args=None):
     elif crawl.returncode != 0:
         raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(crawl.returncode, cmd_args)
 
-    warc_files = list(temp_root_dir.rglob("collections/crawl-*/archive/"))[-1]
+    if zimit_args.collection:
-    warc2zim_args.append(str(warc_files))
+        warc_files = temp_root_dir.joinpath(
-
+            f"collections/{zimit_args.collection}/archive/"
-    num_files = sum(1 for e in warc_files.iterdir())
+        )
+    else:
+        warc_files = list(temp_root_dir.rglob("collections/crawl-*/archive/"))
+        if len(warc_files) == 0:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "Failed to find directory where WARC files have been created"
+            )
+        elif len(warc_files) > 1:
+            print("Found many WARC files directories, only last one will be used")
+            for directory in warc_files:
+                print(f"- {directory}")
+        warc_files = warc_files[-1]
 
     print("")
     print("----------")
-    print(f"Processing {num_files} WARC files to ZIM", flush=True)
+    print(f"Processing WARC files in {warc_files}")
+    warc2zim_args.append(str(warc_files))
+
+    num_files = sum(1 for _ in warc_files.iterdir())
+    print(f"{num_files} WARC files found", flush=True)
 
     return warc2zim(warc2zim_args)