Wiki dump extractor

A python library to extract and analyze pages from a wiki dump.

This library is used in particular in the Landnotes project to extract and analyze pages from the Wikipedia dump.

The project is hosted on GitHub an the HTML documentation is available here.

Scope

Make the wikipedia dumps easier to work with:

• Extract pages from a wiki dump

• Be easy to install and run

• Be fast (can iterate over 50,000 pages / secong using Avro)

• Be memory efficient

• Allow for batch processing and parallel processing

Provide utilities for page analysis:

• Date parsing

• Section extraction

• Text cleaning

• and more.

Usage

To simply iterate over the pages in the dump:

from wiki_dump_extractor import WikiDumpExtractor

dump_file = "enwiki-20220301-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2"
extractor = WikiDumpExtractor(file_path=dump_file)
for page in extractor.iter_pages(limit=1000):
    print(page.title)

To extract the pages by batches (here we save the pages separate CSV files):

from wiki_dump_extractor import WikiDumpExtractor

dump_file = "enwiki-20220301-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2"
extractor = WikiDumpExtractor(file_path=dump_file)
batches = extractor.iter_page_batches(batch_size=1000, limit=10)
for i, batch in enumerate(batches):
    df = pandas.DataFrame([page.to_dict() for page in batch])
    df.to_csv(f"batch_{i}.csv")

Converting the dump to Avro

There are many reasons why you might want to convert the dump to Avro. The original xml.bz2 dump is 22Gb but very slow to read from (250/s), the uncompressed dump is 107Gb, relatively fast to read (this library uses lxml which reads thousands of pages per second), however 50% of the pages in there are empty redirect pages.

The following code converts the batch to a 28G avro dump that only contains the 12 million real pages, stores redirects in a fast LMDB database, and creates an index for quick page lookups. The operation takes ~40 minutes depending on your machine.

from wiki_dump_extractor import WikiXmlDumpExtractor

file_path = "enwiki-20250201-pages-articles-multistream.xml"
extractor = WikiXmlDumpExtractor(file_path=file_path)
ignored_fields = ["timestamp", "page_id", "revision_id", "redirect_title"]
extractor.extract_pages_to_avro(
    output_file="wiki_dump.avro",
    redirects_db_path="redirects.lmdb",  # LMDB database for fast redirect lookups
    ignored_fields=ignored_fields,
)

Then index the pages for fast lookups:

from wiki_dump_extractor import WikiAvroDumpExtractor

extractor = WikiAvroDumpExtractor(file_path="wiki_dump.avro")
extractor.index_pages(page_index_db="page_index.lmdb")

Later on, read the Avro file and use redirects and index as follows (reads the 12 million pages in ~3-4 minutes depending on your machine):

from wiki_dump_extractor import WikiAvroDumpExtractor

# Create extractor
extractor = WikiAvroDumpExtractor(
    file_path="wiki_dump.avro",
    index_dir="page_index.lmdb"  # Use the index for faster lookups
)

# Get pages with automatic redirect resolution
pages = extractor.get_page_batch_by_title(
    ["Page Title 1", "Page Title 2"]
)

Installation

pip install wiki-dump-extractor

Or from the source in development mode:

pip install -e .

To use the LLM-specific module (that would be mostly if you are on a project like Landnotes), use

pip install wiki-dump-extractor[llm]

Or locally:

pip install -e ".[llm]"

To install with tests, use pip install -e ".[dev]" then run the tests with pytest in the root directory.

Requirements for running the LLM utils

# Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

# Import the Google Cloud public key
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -

# Update the package list and install the Cloud SDK
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

Contents:

• Wiki Dump Extractor Reference