htmldump

htmldumper

HTML dump script for RESTBase APIs like https://rest.wikimedia.org/.

Installation

npm install

Usage: Dumping a single wiki

Usage: node ./bin/dump_wiki
Example: node ./bin/dump_wiki --domain en.wikipedia.org \
  --ns 0 --apiURL http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php \
  --saveDir /tmp

Options:
  --apiURL       [required]
  --domain       [required]
  --ns           [required]
  --host         [required] [default: "http://rest.wikimedia.org"]
  -d, --saveDir  Directory to store a dump in (named by domain) [default: no saving]
  --db, --dataBase  SQLite database name [default: no saving]

Filesystem output

With --saveDir as specified in the example above, a directory structure like this will be created:

/tmp/
  en.wikikpedia.org/
    Aaa/
      123456
    Bbbb/
      456768

The directory names for articles are percent-encoded using JavaScript's encodeURIComponent(). On a repeat run with the same --saveDir path, only updated articles are downloaded. Outdated revisions are deleted. These incremental dumps speed up the process significantly, and reduce the load on the servers.

SQLite database output

With --dataBase set to someSQLiteDB.db, a database will be created / updated. The schema currently looks like this:

REATE TABLE data(
    title TEXT,
    revision INTEGER,
    tid TEXT,
    body TEXT,
    page_id INTEGER,
    namespace INTEGER,
    timestamp TEXT,
    comment TEXT,
    user_name TEXT,
    user_id INTEGER,
    PRIMARY KEY(title ASC, revision DESC)
);

Usage: dumping all RESTBase wikis

You need to install pixz, which is used for parallel lzma / xz compression:

apt-get install pixz

With this in place, follow the instructions:

# node bin/dump_restbase --help 
 
Create HTML dumps in a directoy
 
Example usage:
node ./bin/dump_restbase --workDir /tmp --dumpDir /tmp
 
Options:
  -h, --help     Show help and exit.
  -v, --verbose  Verbose logging
  --workDir      Directory to use for in-progress dump files  [default: "/tmp"]
  --dumpDir      Directory to use for finished dump files     [default: "/tmp"]