PyMWP (Python MediaWiki Parser) is a simple and robust parser for MediaWiki contents. It is suitable for analyzing or extracting information from Wikipedia articles.

• Requires Python 2.4 or newer. (Python 3 is not supported.)

• Download and unpack the source code.

• Run setup.py to install:

  $ python setup.py install

mwxml2wiki.py

Converts MediaWiki XML dump files into separate text files or CDB.

Examples

$ mwxml2wiki.py -o all.wiki.gz enwiki-20140102-pages-articles.xml.bz2

$ mwxml2wiki.py -Z -o enwiki.wiki.cdb enwiki-20140102-pages-articles.xml.bz2

$ mwxml2wiki.py -P 'article%(pageid)08d.wiki' enwiki-20140102-pages-articles.xml.bz2

Options

-o filename Specifies the output file name. Supported ending suffixes: .gz, .bz2, .cdb

-P pattern Output filename pattern.

-Z Gzip each record in cdb fiile.

mwwiki2txt.py

Removes MediaWiki markup from wiki/CDB to text/CDB. Speed: it took about 4 days to convert all the current articles in English Wikipedia. (enwiki-20140102-pages-articles.xml.bz2)

Examples

$ mwwiki2txt.py article12.wiki > article12.txt

$ mwwiki2txt.py -L article12.wiki > article12.link

$ mwwiki2txt.py -Z -o jawiki.txt.cdb jawiki-20140107-pages-articles.xml.bz2

$ mwwiki2txt.py -Z -o enwiki.txt.cdb enwiki.wiki.cdb

$ mwwiki2txt.py -o all.txt.bz2 jawiki-20140107-pages-articles.xml.bz2

$ mwwiki2txt.py -P 'article%(pageid)08d.txt' jawiki-20140107-pages-articles.xml.bz2

Options

-o filename Specifies the output file name. Supported ending suffixes: .gz, .bz2, .cdb

-P pattern Output filename pattern.

-Z Gzip each record in cdb fiile.

-L Extract keywords and links instead of text.

• PEP-8 and PEP-257 conformance.
• Better documentation.
• More robust syntax recovery.

(This is so-called MIT/X License)

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Yusuke Shinyama

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.