Manual:MWDumper

MWDumper is a quick little tool for extracting sets of pages from a MediaWiki dump file.

An old JAR can be downloaded from download.wikimedia.org. To import current XML export dumps, you will probably have to build MWDumper from source or use the JAR referenced in bug 18328.

It can read MediaWiki XML export dumps (version 0.3, minus uploads), perform optional filtering, and output back to XML or to SQL statements to add things directly to a database in 1.4 or 1.5 schema.

It is still very much under construction.

While this can be used to import XML dumps into a MediaWiki database, it may not always be the best choice for this task. See Manual:Importing XML dumps for an overview.

Usage
Sample command line for a direct database import: java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 pages_full.xml.bz2 | mysql -u -p  because MySQL fails to distinguish certain characters.

You can also do complex filtering to produce multiple output files: java -jar mwdumper.jar \ --output=bzip2:pages_public.xml.bz2 \ --format=xml \ --filter=notalk \ --filter=namespace:\!NS_USER \ --filter=latest \ --output=bzip2:pages_current.xml.bz2 \ --format=xml \ --filter=latest \ --output=gzip:pages_full_1.5.sql.gz \ --format=sql:1.5 \ --output=gzip:pages_full_1.4.sql.gz \ --format=sql:1.4 \ pages_full.xml.gz

A bare parameter will be interpreted as a file to read XML input from; if "-" or none is given, input will be read from stdin. Input files with ".gz" or ".bz2" extensions will be decompressed as gzip and bzip2 streams, respectively.

Internal decompression of 7-zip .7z files is not yet supported; you can pipe such files through p7zip's 7za:

7za e -so pages_full.xml.7z | java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 | mysql -u -p

Defaults if no parameters are given:
 * read uncompressed XML from stdin
 * write uncompressed XML to stdout
 * no filtering

Output sinks
--output=stdout Send uncompressed XML or SQL output to stdout for piping. (May have charset issues.) This is the default if no output is specified. --output=file: Write uncompressed output to a file. --output=gzip: Write compressed output to a file. --output=bzip2: Write compressed output to a file. --output=mysql: Valid only for SQL format output; opens a connection to the MySQL server and sends commands to it directly. This will look something like: mysql://localhost/databasename?user= &password=

Output formats
--format=xml Output back to MediaWiki's XML export format; use this for filtering dumps for limited import. Output should be idempotent. --format=sql:1.4 SQL statements formatted for bulk import in MediaWiki 1.4's schema. --format=sql:1.5 SQL statements formatted for bulk import in MediaWiki 1.5's schema. Both SQL schema versions currently require that the table structure be already set up in an empty database; use maintenance/tables.sql from the MediaWiki distribution.

Filter actions
--filter=latest Skips all but the last revision listed for each page. FIXME: currently this pays no attention to the timestamp or     revision number, but simply the order of items in the dump. This may or may not be strictly correct. --filter=list: Excludes all pages whose titles do not appear in the given file. Use one title per line; blanks and lines starting with # are ignored. Talk and subject pages of given titles are both matched. --filter=exactlist: As above, but does not try to match associated talk/subject pages. --filter=namespace:[!] Includes only pages in (or not in, with "!") the given namespaces. You can use the NS_* constant names or the raw numeric keys. --filter=notalk Excludes all talk pages from output (including custom namespaces) --filter=titlematch: Excludes all pages whose titles do not match the regex.

Misc options
--progress= Change progress reporting interval from the default 1000 revisions. --quiet Don't send any progress output to stderr.

Example of using mwdumper with a direct connection to MySQL
java -server -classpath mysql-connector-java-3.1.11/mysql-connector-java-3.1.11-bin.jar:mwdumper.jar \ org.mediawiki.dumper.Dumper --output=mysql://127.0.0.1/testwiki?user=wiki\&password=wiki \ --format=sql:1.5 20051020_pages_articles.xml.bz2

Notes:
 * You will need the mysql-connector JDBC driver.
 * The JRE does not allow you to mix the -jar and -classpath arguments (hence the different command structure).
 * The --output argument must before the --format argument.
 * The ampersand in the MySQL URI must be escaped on Unix-like systems.

Example of using mwdumper with a direct connection to MySQL on WindowsXP
Had problems with the example above... this following example works better on XP....

1.Create a batch file with the following text.

set class=mwdumper.jar;mysql-connector-java-3.1.12/mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar set data="C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Documents\en.wiki\enwiki-20060207-pages-articles.xml.bz2" java -client -classpath %class% org.mediawiki.dumper.Dumper "--output=mysql://127.0.0.1/wikidb?user= &password= " "--format=sql:1.5" %data%

pause

2.Download the mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar and mwdumper.jar

3.Run the batch file.

Note


 * 1) It still reports a problem with the import files, "duplicate key"...
 * 2) The class path separator is a ; (semi-colon) in this example; different from the example above.

The "duplicate key" error may result from the page, revision and text tables in the database not being empty, or from character encoding problems. See A note on character encoding.

Trouble shooting
If strange XML errors are encountered under Java 1.4, try 1.5:
 * http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
 * http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/java2se50release1.html

If mwdumper gives java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid contributor exception, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18328

Progamming
Contains code from the Apache Commons Compress project for cross-platform bzip2 input/output support (Apache License 2.0).

Performance Tips
To speed up importing into a database, you might try:


 * Temporarily remove all indexes and auto_increment fields from the following tables: page, revision and text. This gives a tremendous speed bump, because MySQL will otherwise be updating these indexes after each insert. Don't forget to recreate the indexes afterwards.
 * Java's -server option may significantly increase performance on some versions of Sun's JVM for large files. (Not all installations will have this available.)
 * Increase MySQL's innodb_log_file_size. The default is as little as 5mb, but you can improve performance dramatically by increasing this to reduce the number of disk writes. (See the my-huge.cnf sample config.)
 * If you don't need it, disable the binary log (log-bin option) during the import. On a standalone machine this is just wasteful, writing a second copy of every query that you'll never use.
 * Various other wacky tips in the MySQL reference manual.

Reporting bugs
Bugs can be reported to the mwdumper product in the MediaWiki Bugzilla.

Todo

 * Add some more junit tests
 * Include table initialization in SQL output
 * Allow use of table prefixes in SQL output
 * Ensure that titles and other bits are validated correctly.
 * Test XML input for robustness
 * Provide filter to strip ID numbers
 * &lt;siteinfo&gt; is technically optional; live without it and use default namespaces
 * GUI frontend(s)
 * Port to Python? ;)

Change history (abbreviated)

 * 2005-10-25: Switched SqlWriter.sqlEscape back to less memory-hungry StringBuffer
 * 2005-10-24: Fixed SQL output in non-UTF-8 locales
 * 2005-10-21: Applied more speedup patches from Folke
 * 2005-10-11: SQL direct connection, GUI work begins
 * 2005-10-10: Applied speedup patches from Folke Behrens
 * 2005-10-05: Use bulk inserts in SQL mode
 * 2005-09-29: Converted from C# to Java
 * 2005-08-27: Initial extraction code