diff --git a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildpdf.py b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildpdf.py
index 24d65a2158..8469886268 100755
--- a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildpdf.py
+++ b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildpdf.py
@@ -70,9 +70,8 @@ Embedding_FreeCAD
 Embedding_FreeCADGui
 Code_snippets"""
 
-import sys, os, re, tempfile, getopt, shutil, time
+import sys, os, shutil, time
 from urllib.request import urlopen
-from urllib.error import HTTPError
 
 #    CONFIGURATION       #################################################
 
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ def crawl():
     if PDFCONVERTOR == 'pisa':
         try:
             import ho.pisa as pisa
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             "Error: Python-pisa not installed, exiting."
             return 1
     elif PDFCONVERTOR == 'htmldoc':
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ def crawl():
             return 1
     try:
         from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader,PdfFileWriter
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         print("Error: Python-pypdf2 not installed, exiting.")
 
     # run ########################################################
@@ -229,7 +228,7 @@ def joinpdf():
             if page == "end":
                 parent = False
                 continue
-            if VERBOSE: print('Appending',page, "at position",count)
+            if VERBOSE: print('Appending ',page, " at position ",count)
             title = page.replace("_"," ")
             pdffile = page + ".pdf"
             if exists(pdffile,True):
@@ -245,7 +244,7 @@ def joinpdf():
                     result.addBookmark(title,count,parent)
                 count += numpages
             else:
-                print("page",pdffile,"not found, aborting.")
+                print("page ",pdffile," not found, aborting.")
                 sys.exit()
 
     if VERBOSE: print("Writing...")
diff --git a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildqhelp.py b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildqhelp.py
index de90461b5d..5608154d7b 100755
--- a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildqhelp.py
+++ b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildqhelp.py
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ __url__ = "http://www.freecadweb.org"
 This script builds qhrlp files from a local copy of the wiki
 """
 
-import sys, os, re, tempfile, getopt, shutil
-from urllib.request import urlopen, HTTPError
+import os, re, shutil
 
 #    CONFIGURATION       #################################################
 
diff --git a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildwikiindex.py b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildwikiindex.py
index 5af78f0fa4..34f7730110 100755
--- a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildwikiindex.py
+++ b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/buildwikiindex.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ This script parses the contents of a wiki site and saves a file containing
 names of pages and images to be downloaded.
 """
 
-import sys, os, re, tempfile, getopt
+import sys, os, re
 from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError
 
 #    CONFIGURATION       #################################################
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def getlinks(html):
         if not rg:
             rg = re.findall('href="\/wiki\/(.*?)"',l)
             if not rg:
-                rg = re.findall('href=".*?wiki.freecadweb.org\/(.*?)"',l)
+                rg = re.findall('href=".*?wiki\\.freecadweb\\.org\/(.*?)"',l)
                 if not rg:
                     rg = re.findall('href="\/(.*?)"',l)
         if "images" in rg:
diff --git a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/downloadwiki.py b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/downloadwiki.py
index 727445ff42..f6e20bec55 100755
--- a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/downloadwiki.py
+++ b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/downloadwiki.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ __url__ = "http://www.freecadweb.org"
 This script retrieves the contents of a wiki site from a pages list
 """
 
-import sys, os, re, tempfile, getopt
+import os, re
 from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError
 
 #    CONFIGURATION       #################################################
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ def crawl():
     for l in lfile: locallist.append(l.replace("\n",""))
     lfile.close()
     todolist = locallist[:]
-    print ("getting",len(todolist),"files...")
+    print ("getting ",len(todolist)," files...")
     count = 1
-    indexpages = get(INDEX)
+    get(INDEX)
     while todolist:
         targetpage = todolist.pop()
         if VERBOSE: print (count,(3-len(str(count)))*" ", ": Fetching ", targetpage)
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def crawl():
     return 0
 
 def get(page):
-    "downloads a single page, returns the other pages it links to"
+    "downloads a single page"
     localpage = page
     if "Command_Reference" in localpage:
         localpage = localpage.replace("Category:","")
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def get(page):
         html = cleanimagelinks(html)
         output(html,page)
     else:
-        if VERBOSE: print ("       skipping",page)
+        if VERBOSE: print ("       skipping ",page)
 
 def getlinks(html):
     "returns a list of wikipage links in html file"
@@ -302,15 +302,15 @@ def fetchimage(imagelink):
                 file = open(path,'wb')
                 file.write(data)
                 file.close()
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 failcount += 1
             else:
                 processed.append(filename)
-                if VERBOSE: print ("       saving",local(filename,image=True))
+                if VERBOSE: print ("       saving ",local(filename,image=True))
                 return
         print ('Error: unable to fetch file ' + filename)
     else:
-        if VERBOSE: print ("       skipping",filename)
+        if VERBOSE: print ("       skipping ",filename)
 
 def local(page,image=False):
     "returns a local path for a given page/image"
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ def output(html,page):
         filename = filename.replace("&pagefrom=","+")
         filename = filename.replace("#mw-pages","")
         filename = filename.replace(".html.html",".html")
-    print ("       saving",filename)
+    print ("       saving ",filename)
     file = open(filename,'wb')
     file.write(html)
     file.close()
diff --git a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/update.py b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/update.py
index fd3b8ac729..0ff3eae205 100755
--- a/src/Tools/offlinedoc/update.py
+++ b/src/Tools/offlinedoc/update.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ This script needs to be run after the wiki has been fully downloaded. It has thr
    files downloaded. Revision.txt and wikifiles.txt get also updated.
 """
 
-import sys, os, re, tempfile, getopt
+import sys, os, re
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 from urllib.error import HTTPError