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Description edit

mwimport is a Perl script to import WikiMedia XML dumps. Its purpose in life is to be faster than mwdumper. It is however much less general than mwdumper, specifically:

  • It is not an XML parser -- it can simply parse XML dumps available on download (tested with pages-articles.xml of enwiki/2006-11-30, enwikibooks/2006-12-23, enwiktionary/2006-12-24, dewiki/2007-01-24)
  • Minor variations in the dump format will break it.
  • It can not read compressed data: an unzipping tool must be specified in the pipe.
  • It can only output SQL statements according to MediaWiki schema version 1.5 (that was in 2005).
  • It is written in Perl, which you may have to install first.
  • So far only tested on Linux. (Update: It performs on Windows_2000 as well ! See discussion page.) Also tested and working on Mac OS X 10.5.2.
  • It is unmaintained since 2007.

Secondary benefits over mwdumper:

  • You can interrupt it, and it will report the number of successfully written pages.
  • In subsequent runs you can instruct it to skip this many pages.
  • Takes much less (about a ninth) memory, which may well be a major contribution to its speediness.

If the limitations do not bother you, here is some backing for the "it's faster" claim. All results are elapsed seconds (smaller is better), averaged from five runs on the same machine on an uncompressed XML dump. mwdumper was started with --quiet --format=sql:1.5. The first two columns were from throwing the resulting SQL code away (>/dev/null) while the "& mysql" columns are from "real-world" usage, i.e. piping the result into a mysql process, which is obviously slower.

dump size [MB] pages mwdumper mwimport mwdumper & mysql mwimport & mysql
enwikibooks-20061223 153 50255 207.113 37.879 232.358 55.012
enwiktionary-20061224 317 401519 623.063 203.191 863.120 342.529
dewiki-20070124 2832 1090612 4163.042 735.641 7408.999 2974.708

So it seems that mwimport alone is about 5.5 times faster on large pages and about 3.2 times faster on small pages. Adding mysql to the mix closes the gap somewhat, but mwimport is still 2.5 times faster in the worst case (dewiki), and always faster than mwdumper without mysql.

Example usage: 

 bzcat enwiki-20120104-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | perl mwimport.pl | gzip -c > /media/wikipedia/enwiki.sql.gz

NOTE: You may be required on some MediaWiki installations to use the -f switch with mysql when using mwimport. mwimport works very well with most XML dumps provided by the Foundation. If you get an error from mysql complaining about duplicate index keys (key 1 is typically the one encountered), then use the following syntax with mwimport to get around the problem: 

  cat enwiki-<date>.xml | perl mwimport.pl | mysql -f -u<admin name> -p<admin password> --default-character-set=utf8 <database name>

The -f (force) flag will not overwrite the duplicate record in the database, but will allow the remaining articles to be imported without interrupting the import process.

To skip a particular number of pages, use -s number_of_pages_to_skip , as documented in the head of the code.

Source edit

NOTE: Copy the rendered text of this program during cut and paste. Do not copy the wikitext as the quot;, lt;, and gt; XML markup tags will be improperly formatted if you use the wikitext version and will result in perl processing errors. Cut and paste the rendered page content instead.

If you are importing content in a particular language you will want to add the localized forms of the word "REDIRECT" to the two lines that begin

$page{redirect} = $page{latest_start}....

For both lines you will want to add both the upper and lower case forms of the word, because this script is not utf-8 aware and so case conversion will not work properly in the second line. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
=head1 NAME

mwimport -- quick and dirty mediawiki importer

=head1 SYNOPSIS

cat pages.xml | mwimport [-s N|--skip=N]

=cut

use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

my ($cnt_page, $cnt_rev, %namespace, $ns_pattern);
my $committed = 0;
my $skip = 0;

## set this to 1 to match "mwdumper --format=sql:1.5" as close as possible
sub Compat() { 0 }

# 512kB is what mwdumper uses, but 4MB gives much better performance here
my $Buffer_Size = Compat ? 512*1024 : 4*1024*1024;

sub textify($)
{
  my $l;
  for ($_[0]) {
    if (defined $_) {
      s/&quot;/"/ig;
      s/&lt;/</ig;
      s/&gt;/>/ig;
      /&(?!amp;)(.*?;)/ and die "textify: does not know &$1";
      s/&amp;/&/ig;
      $l = length $_;
      s/\\/\\\\/g;
      s/\n/\\n/g;
      s/'/\\'/ig;
      Compat and s/"/\\"/ig;
      $_ = "'$_'";
    } else {
      $l = 0;
      $_ = "''";
    }
  }
  return $l;
}

sub getline()
{
  $_ = <>;
  defined $_ or die "eof at line $.\n";
}

sub ignore_elt($)
{
  m|^\s*<$_[0]>.*?</$_[0]>\n$| or die "expected $_[0] element in line $.\n";
  getline;
}

sub simple_elt($$)
{
  if (m|^\s*<$_[0]\s*/>\n$|) {
    $_[1]{$_[0]} = '';
  } elsif (m|^\s*<$_[0]>(.*?)</$_[0]>\n$|) {
    $_[1]{$_[0]} = $1;
  } else {
    die "expected $_[0] element in line $.\n";
  }
  getline;
}

sub simple_opt_elt($$)
{
  if (m|^\s*<$_[0]\s*/>\n$|) {
    $_[1]{$_[0]} = '';
  } elsif (m|^\s*<$_[0]>(.*?)</$_[0]>\n$|) {
    $_[1]{$_[0]} = $1;
  } else {
    return;
  }
  getline;
}

sub redirect_elt($)
{
  if (m|^\s*<redirect\s*title="([^"]*)"\s*/>\n$|) { # " -- GeSHI syntax highlighting breaks on this line
    $_[0]{redirect} = $1;
  } else {
    simple_opt_elt redirect => $_[0];
    return;
  }
  getline;
}

sub opening_tag($)
{
  m|^\s*<$_[0]>\n$| or die "expected $_[0] element in line $.\n";
  getline;
}

sub closing_tag($)
{
  m|^\s*</$_[0]>\n$| or die "$_[0]: expected closing tag in line $.\n";
  getline;
}

sub si_nss_namespace()
{
  m|^\s*<namespace key="(-?\d+)"[^/]*?/>()\n|
    or m|^\s*<namespace key="(-?\d+)"[^>]*?>(.*?)</namespace>\n|
    or die "expected namespace element in line $.\n";
  $namespace{$2} = $1;
  getline;
}

sub si_namespaces()
{
  opening_tag("namespaces");
  eval {
    while (1) {
      si_nss_namespace;
    }
  };
  # note: $@ is always defined
  $@ =~ /^expected namespace element / or die "namespaces: $@";
  $ns_pattern = '^('.join('|',map { quotemeta } keys %namespace).'):';
  closing_tag("namespaces");
}

sub siteinfo()
{
  opening_tag("siteinfo");
  eval {
    my %site;
    simple_elt sitename => \%site;
    simple_elt dbname => \%site;
    simple_elt base => \%site;
    simple_elt generator => \%site;
    $site{generator} =~ /^MediaWiki 1.20wmf1$/
      or warn("siteinfo: untested generator '$site{generator}',",
	      " expect trouble ahead\n");
    simple_elt case => \%site;
    si_namespaces;
    print "-- MediaWiki XML dump converted to SQL by mwimport
BEGIN;

-- Site: $site{sitename}
-- DBName: $site{dbname}
-- URL: $site{base}
-- Generator: $site{generator}
-- Case: $site{case}
--
-- Namespaces:
",map { "-- $namespace{$_}: $_\n" }
  sort { $namespace{$a} <=> $namespace{$b} } keys %namespace;
  };
  $@ and die "siteinfo: $@";
  closing_tag("siteinfo");
}

sub pg_rv_contributor($)
{
  if (m|^\s*<contributor deleted="deleted"\s*/>\s*\n|) {
    getline;
  } else {
    opening_tag "contributor";
    my %c;
    eval {
      simple_elt username => \%c;
      simple_elt id => \%c;
      $_[0]{contrib_user} = $c{username};
      $_[0]{contrib_id}   = $c{id};
    };
    if ($@) {
      $@ =~ /^expected username element / or die "contributor: $@";
      eval {
        simple_elt ip => \%c;
        $_[0]{contrib_user} = $c{ip};
      };
      $@ and die "contributor: $@";
    }
    closing_tag "contributor";
  }
}

sub pg_rv_comment($)
{
  if (m|^\s*<comment\s*/>\s*\n|) {
    getline;
  } elsif (m|^\s*<comment deleted="deleted"\s*/>\s*\n|) {
    getline;
  } elsif (s|^\s*<comment>([^<]*)||g) {
    while (1) {
      $_[0]{comment} .= $1;
      last if $_;
      getline;
      s|^([^<]*)||;
    }
    closing_tag "comment";
  } else {
    return;
  }
}

sub pg_rv_text($)
{
  if (m|^\s*<text xml:space="preserve"\s*/>\s*\n|) {
    $_[0]{text} = '';
    getline;
  } elsif (m|^\s*<text deleted="deleted"\s*/>\s*\n|) {
    $_[0]{text} = '';
    getline;
  } elsif (s|^\s*<text xml:space="preserve">([^<]*)||g) {
    while (1) {
      $_[0]{text} .= $1;
      last if $_;
      getline;
      s|^([^<]*)||;
    }
    closing_tag "text";
  } else {
    die "expected text element in line $.\n";
  }
}

my $start = time;

sub stats()
{
  my $s = time - $start;
  $s ||= 1;
  printf STDERR "%9d pages (%7.3f/s), %9d revisions (%7.3f/s) in %d seconds\n",
    $cnt_page, $cnt_page/$s, $cnt_rev, $cnt_rev/$s, $s;
}

### flush_rev($text, $rev, $page)
sub flush_rev($$$)
{
  $_[0] or return;
  for my $i (0,1,2) {
    $_[$i] =~ s/,\n?$//;
  }
  print "INSERT INTO text(old_id,old_text,old_flags) VALUES $_[0];\n";
  $_[2] and print "INSERT INTO page(page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_restrictions,page_counter,page_is_redirect,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_latest,page_len) VALUES $_[2];\n";
  print "INSERT INTO revision(rev_id,rev_page,rev_text_id,rev_comment,rev_user,rev_user_text,rev_timestamp,rev_minor_edit,rev_deleted,rev_len,rev_parent_id) VALUES $_[1];\n";
  for my $i (0,1,2) {
    $_[$i] = '';
  }
}

### flush($text, $rev, $page)
sub flush($$$)
{
  flush_rev $_[0], $_[1], $_[2];
  print "COMMIT;\n";
  $committed = $cnt_page;
}

### pg_revision(\%page, $skip, $text, $rev, $page)
sub pg_revision($$$$$)
{
  my $rev = {};
  opening_tag "revision";
  eval {
    my %revision;
    simple_elt id => $rev;
    simple_opt_elt parentid => $rev;
    simple_elt timestamp => $rev;
    pg_rv_contributor $rev;
    simple_opt_elt minor => $rev;
    pg_rv_comment $rev;
    simple_opt_elt model => $rev;
    simple_opt_elt format => $rev;
    pg_rv_text $rev;
    simple_opt_elt sha1 => $rev;
  };
  $@ and die "revision: $@";
  closing_tag "revision";
  $_[1] and return;
  $$rev{id} =~ /^\d+$/ or return
    warn("page '$_[0]{title}': ignoring bogus revision id '$$rev{id}'\n");
  $_[0]{latest_len} = textify $$rev{text};
  for my $f (qw(comment contrib_user)) {
    textify $$rev{$f};
  }
  $$rev{timestamp} =~
    s/^(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)T(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)Z$/'$1$2$3$4$5$6'/
      or return warn("page '$_[0]{title}' rev $$rev{id}: ",
		     "bogus timestamp '$$rev{timestamp}'\n");
  $_[2] .= "($$rev{id},$$rev{text},'utf-8'),\n";
  $$rev{minor} = defined $$rev{minor} ? 1 : 0;
  $_[3] .= "($$rev{id},$_[0]{id},$$rev{id},$$rev{comment},"
    .($$rev{contrib_id}||0)
    .",$$rev{contrib_user},$$rev{timestamp},$$rev{minor},0,$_[0]{latest_len},$_[0]{latest}),\n";
  $_[0]{latest} = $$rev{id};
  $_[0]{latest_start} = substr $$rev{text}, 0, 60;
  if (length $_[2] > $Buffer_Size) {
    flush_rev $_[2], $_[3], $_[4];
    $_[0]{do_commit} = 1;
  }
  ++$cnt_rev % 1000 == 0 and stats;
}

### page($text, $rev, $page)
sub page($$$)
{
  opening_tag "page";
  my %page;
  ++$cnt_page;
  eval {
    simple_elt title => \%page;
    simple_opt_elt ns => \%page;
    simple_elt id => \%page;
    redirect_elt \%page;
    simple_opt_elt restrictions => \%page;
    $page{latest} = 0;
    while (1) {
      pg_revision \%page, $skip, $_[0], $_[1], $_[2];
    }
  };
  # note: $@ is always defined
  $@ =~ /^expected revision element / or die "page: $@";
  closing_tag "page";
  if ($skip) {
    --$skip;
  } else {
    $page{title} or return;
    $page{id} =~ /^\d+$/
      or warn("page '$page{title}': bogus id '$page{id}'\n");
    my $ns;
    if ($page{title} =~ s/$ns_pattern//o) {
      $ns = $namespace{$1};
    } else {
      $ns = 0;
    }
    for my $f (qw(title restrictions)) {
      textify $page{$f};
    }
    if (Compat) {
      $page{redirect} = $page{latest_start} =~ /^'#(?:REDIRECT|redirect) / ?
	1 : 0;
    } else {
      $page{redirect} = $page{latest_start} =~ /^'#REDIRECT /i ? 1 : 0;
    }
    $page{title} =~ y/ /_/;
    if (Compat) {
      $_[2] .= "($page{id},$ns,$page{title},$page{restrictions},0,"
	."$page{redirect},0,RAND(),"
	  ."DATE_ADD('1970-01-01', INTERVAL UNIX_TIMESTAMP() SECOND)+0,"
	    ."$page{latest},$page{latest_len}),\n";
    } else {
      $_[2] .= "($page{id},$ns,$page{title},$page{restrictions},0,"
	."$page{redirect},0,RAND(),NOW()+0,$page{latest},$page{latest_len}),\n";
    }
    if ($page{do_commit}) {
      flush $_[0], $_[1], $_[2];
      print "BEGIN;\n";
    }
  }
}

sub terminate
{
  die "terminated by SIG$_[0]\n";
}

my $SchemaVer = '0.10';
my $SchemaLoc = "http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-$SchemaVer/";
my $Schema    = "http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-$SchemaVer.xsd";

my $help;
GetOptions("skip=i"		=> \$skip,
	   "help"		=> \$help) or pod2usage(2);
$help and pod2usage(1);

getline;
m|^<mediawiki \Qxmlns="$SchemaLoc" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="$SchemaLoc $Schema" version="$SchemaVer"\E xml:lang="..">$|
  or die "unknown schema or invalid first line\n";
getline;
$SIG{TERM} = $SIG{INT} = \&terminate;
siteinfo;
my ($text, $rev, $page) = ('', '', '');
eval {
  while (1) {
    page $text, $rev, $page;
  }
};
$@ =~ /^expected page element / or die "$@ (committed $committed pages)\n";
flush $text, $rev, $page;
stats;
m|</mediawiki>| or die "mediawiki: expected closing tag in line $.\n";

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2007 by Robert Bihlmeyer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

You may also redistribute and/or modify this software under the terms
of the GNU Free Documentation License without invariant sections, and
without front-cover or back-cover texts.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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