wikiadownloader.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright (C) 2011 WikiTeam
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# using a list of wikia subdomains, it downloads all dumps available in Special:Statistics pages
# you can use the list available at the "listofwikis" directory, the file is called wikia.com and it contains +200k wikis

import datetime
import os
import re
import sys
import urllib

""" 
instructions: 

it requires a list of wikia wikis
there is one in the repository (listofwikis directory)

run it: python wikiadownloader.py

it you want to resume: python wikiadownloader.py wikitostartfrom

where wikitostartfrom is the last downloaded wiki in the previous session

"""

f = open('wikia.com', 'r')
wikia = f.read().strip().split('\n')
f.close()

print >>sys.stderr, len(wikia), 'wikis in Wikia'

start = '!'
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    start = sys.argv[1]

for wiki in wikia:
    wiki = wiki.lower()
    prefix = wiki.split('http://')[1]
    if prefix < start:
        continue
    print >>sys.stderr, "Starting:", wiki
    
    f = urllib.urlopen('%s/wiki/Special:Statistics' % (wiki))
    html = f.read()
    f.close()
    
    m = re.compile(r'(?i)<a href="(?P<urldump>http://[^<>]+pages_(?P<dump>current|full)\.xml\.(?P<compression>gz|7z|bz2))">(?P<year>\d{4})-(?P<month>\d{2})-(?P<day>\d{2}) (?P<time>\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)')

    for i in m.finditer(html):
        urldump = i.group("urldump")
        dump = i.group("dump")
        date = "%s-%s-%s" % (i.group("year"), i.group("month"), i.group("day"))
        compression = i.group("compression")

        print >>sys.stderr, 'Downloading', wiki, dump.lower()
        
        #{"name":"pages_full.xml.gz","timestamp":1273755409,"mwtimestamp":"20100513125649"}
        #{"name":"pages_current.xml.gz","timestamp":1270731925,"mwtimestamp":"20100408130525"}
        
        #-q, turn off verbose
        os.system('wget -q -c "%s" -O %s-%s-pages-meta-%s.%s' % (urldump, prefix, date, dump.lower() == 'current' and 'current' or 'history', compression))

    if not m.search(html):
        print >>sys.stderr, 'Failed to download:', wiki
        print >>sys.stderr, wiki

fail_file.close()