Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages(3) Object capable of processing dump files with a single revision per article

ABOUT

This object is used to access the metadata associated with a MediaWiki instance and provide an iterative interface for extracting the individual articles out of the same. This module does not allow more than one revision for each specific article; to parse a comprehensive dump file use the Parse::MediaWikiDump::Revisions object.

SYNOPSIS


use MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat;

$pmwd = Parse::MediaWikiDump->new;

$input = 'pages-articles.xml';
$input = \*FILEHANDLE;

$pages = $pmwd->pages();
$pages = $pmwd->pages();
$pages = $pmwd->pages(input => $input, fast_mode => 0);

#print the title and id of each article inside the dump file
while(defined($page = $pages->next)) {
print "title '", $page->title, "' id ", $page->id, "\n";
}

METHODS

$pages->new
Open the specified MediaWiki dump file. If the single argument to this method is a string it will be used as the path to the file to open. If the argument is a reference to a filehandle the contents will be read from the filehandle as specified.

If more than one argument is supplied the arguments must be a hash of configuration options. The input option is required and is the same as previously described. The fast_mode option is optional, defaults to being off, and if set to a true value will cause the parser to run in a mode that is much faster but only provides access to the title and text contents of a page. See the MediaWiki::DumpFile::Pages for details about fast mode.

$pages->next
Returns an instance of the next available Parse::MediaWikiDump::page object or returns undef if there are no more articles left.
$pages->version
Returns a plain text string of the dump file format revision number
$pages->sitename
Returns a plain text string that is the name of the MediaWiki instance.
$pages->base
Returns the URL to the instances main article in the form of a string.
$pages->generator
Returns a string containing 'MediaWiki' and a version number of the instance that dumped this file. Example: 'MediaWiki 1.14alpha'
$pages->case
Returns a string describing the case sensitivity configured in the instance.
$pages->namespaces
Returns a reference to an array of references. Each reference is to another array with the first item being the unique identifier of the namespace and the second element containing a string that is the name of the namespace.
$pages->namespaces_names
Returns an array reference the array contains strings of all the namespaces each as an element.
$pages->current_byte
Returns the number of bytes that has been processed so far
$pages->size
Returns the total size of the dump file in bytes.

Scan an article dump file for double redirects that exist in the most recent article revision

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  #progress information goes to STDERR, a list of double redirects found
  #goes to STDOUT
  
  binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
  binmode(STDERR, ":utf8");
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat;
  
  my $file = shift(@ARGV);
  my $pmwd = Parse::MediaWikiDump->new;
  my $pages;
  my $page;
  my %redirs;
  my $artcount = 0;
  my $file_size;
  my $start = time;
  
  if (defined($file)) {
        $file_size = (stat($file))[7];
        $pages = $pmwd->pages($file);
  } else {
        print STDERR "No file specified, using standard input\n";
        $pages = $pmwd->pages(\*STDIN);
  }
  
  #the case of the first letter of titles is ignored - force this option
  #because the other values of the case setting are unknown
  die 'this program only supports the first-letter case setting' unless
        $pages->case eq 'first-letter';
  
  print STDERR "Analyzing articles:\n";
  
  while(defined($page = $pages->next)) {
    update_ui() if ++$artcount % 500 == 0;
  
    #main namespace only
    next unless $page->namespace eq '';
    next unless defined($page->redirect);
  
    my $title = case_fixer($page->title);
    #create a list of redirects indexed by their original name
    $redirs{$title} = case_fixer($page->redirect);
  }
  
  my $redir_count = scalar(keys(%redirs));
  print STDERR "done; searching $redir_count redirects:\n";
  
  my $count = 0;
  
  #if a redirect location is also a key to the index we have a double redirect
  foreach my $key (keys(%redirs)) {
    my $redirect = $redirs{$key};
  
    if (defined($redirs{$redirect})) {
      print "$key\n";
      $count++;
    }
  }
  
  print STDERR "discovered $count double redirects\n";
  
  #removes any case sensativity from the very first letter of the title
  #but not from the optional namespace name
  sub case_fixer {
    my $title = shift;
  
    #check for namespace
    if ($title =~ /^(.+?):(.+)/) {
      $title = $1 . ':' . ucfirst($2);
    } else {
      $title = ucfirst($title);
    }
  
    return $title;
  }
  
  sub pretty_bytes {
    my $bytes = shift;
    my $pretty = int($bytes) . ' bytes';
  
    if (($bytes = $bytes / 1024) > 1) {
      $pretty = int($bytes) . ' kilobytes';
    }
  
    if (($bytes = $bytes / 1024) > 1) {
      $pretty = sprintf("%0.2f", $bytes) . ' megabytes';
    }
  
    if (($bytes = $bytes / 1024) > 1) {
      $pretty = sprintf("%0.4f", $bytes) . ' gigabytes';
    }
  
    return $pretty;
  }
  
  sub pretty_number {
    my $number = reverse(shift);
    $number =~ s/(...)/$1,/g;
    $number = reverse($number);
    $number =~ s/^,//;
  
    return $number;
  }
  
  sub update_ui {
    my $seconds = time - $start;
    my $bytes = $pages->current_byte;
  
    print STDERR "  ", pretty_number($artcount),  " articles; "; 
    print STDERR pretty_bytes($bytes), " processed; ";
  
    if (defined($file_size)) {
      my $percent = int($bytes / $file_size * 100);
  
      print STDERR "$percent% completed\n"; 
    } else {
      my $bytes_per_second = int($bytes / $seconds);
      print STDERR pretty_bytes($bytes_per_second), " per second\n";
    }
  }

Version 0.4

This class was updated to support version 0.4 dump files from a MediaWiki instance but it does not currently support any of the new information available in those files.

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