WikiExtractor.py is a Python script that extracts and cleans text from a Wikipedia database backup dump, e.g. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 for English.
The tool is written in Python and requires Python 3 but no additional library.
Warning: problems have been reported on Windows due to poor support for StringIO in the Python implementation on Windows.
For further information, see the Wiki.
cirrus-extractor.py is a version of the script that performs extraction from a Wikipedia Cirrus dump.
Cirrus dumps contain text with already expanded templates.
Cirrus dumps are available at: cirrussearch.
WikiExtractor performs template expansion by preprocessing the whole dump and extracting template definitions.
In order to speed up processing:
- multiprocessing is used for dealing with articles in parallel
- a cache is kept of parsed templates (only useful for repeated extractions).
The script may be invoked directly:
python -m wikiextractor.WikiExtractor <Wikipedia dump file>
It can also be installed from PyPi by doing:
pip install wikiextractor
or locally with:
(sudo) python setup.py install
The installer also installs two scripts for direct invocation:
wikiextractor (equivalent to python -m wikiextractor.WikiExtractor)
extractPage (to extract a single page from a dump)
The script is invoked with a Wikipedia dump file as an argument:
python -m wikiextractor.WikiExtractor <Wikipedia dump file> [--templates <extracted template file>]
The option --templates extracts the templates to a local file, which can be reloaded to reduce the time to perform extraction.
The output is stored in several files of similar size in a given directory. Each file will contains several documents in this document format.
usage: wikiextractor [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-b n[KMG]] [-c] [--json] [--html] [-l] [-ns ns1,ns2]
[--templates TEMPLATES] [--no-templates] [--html-safe HTML_SAFE] [--processes PROCESSES]
[-q] [--debug] [-a] [-v]
input
Wikipedia Extractor:
Extracts and cleans text from a Wikipedia database dump and stores output in a
number of files of similar size in a given directory.
Each file will contain several documents in the format:
<doc id="" url="" title="">
...
</doc>
If the program is invoked with the --json flag, then each file will contain several documents formatted as json ojects, one per line, with the following structure
{"id": "", "revid": "", "url": "", "title": "", "text": "..."}
The program performs template expansion by preprocesssng the whole dump and
collecting template definitions.
positional arguments:
input XML wiki dump file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--processes PROCESSES
Number of processes to use (default 79)
Output:
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
directory for extracted files (or '-' for dumping to stdout)
-b n[KMG], --bytes n[KMG]
maximum bytes per output file (default 1M)
-c, --compress compress output files using bzip
--json write output in json format instead of the default <doc> format
Processing:
--html produce HTML output, subsumes --links
-l, --links preserve links
-ns ns1,ns2, --namespaces ns1,ns2
accepted namespaces
--templates TEMPLATES
use or create file containing templates
--no-templates Do not expand templates
--html-safe HTML_SAFE
use to produce HTML safe output within <doc>...</doc>
Special:
-q, --quiet suppress reporting progress info
--debug print debug info
-a, --article analyze a file containing a single article (debug option)
-v, --version print program version
Saving templates to a file will speed up performing extraction the next time, assuming template definitions have not changed.
Option --no-templates significantly speeds up the extractor, avoiding the cost
of expanding MediaWiki templates.
For further information, visit the documentation.
usage: cirrus-extract.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-b n[KMG]] [-c] [-ns ns1,ns2] [-q]
[-v]
input
Wikipedia Cirrus Extractor:
Extracts and cleans text from a Wikipedia Cirrus dump and stores output in a
number of files of similar size in a given directory.
Each file will contain several documents in the format:
<doc id="" url="" title="" language="" revision="">
...
</doc>
positional arguments:
input Cirrus Json wiki dump file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Output:
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
directory for extracted files (or '-' for dumping to
stdin)
-b n[KMG], --bytes n[KMG]
maximum bytes per output file (default 1M)
-c, --compress compress output files using bzip
Processing:
-ns ns1,ns2, --namespaces ns1,ns2
accepted namespaces
Special:
-q, --quiet suppress reporting progress info
-v, --version print program version
Extract a single page from a Wikipedia dump file.
usage: extractPage [-h] [--id ID] [--template] [-v] input
Wikipedia Page Extractor:
Extracts a single page from a Wikipedia dump file.
positional arguments:
input XML wiki dump file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--id ID article number
--template template number
-v, --version print program version
The code is made available under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
If you find this code useful, please refer it in publications as:
@misc{Wikiextractor2015,
author = {Giuseppe Attardi},
title = {WikiExtractor},
year = {2015},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor}}
}