mwparserfromhell vs MediaWiki-Tools

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mwparserfromhell		MediaWiki-Tools
	Project
5	Mentions	4
710	Stars	4
-	Growth	-
6.6	Activity	3.5
27 days ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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mwparserfromhell

Posts with mentions or reviews of mwparserfromhell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.

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44 projects | dev.to | 29 Apr 2024
Processing Wikipedia Dumps With Python
1 project | /r/programming | 18 May 2023

There's also https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell, if you don't want to roll your own.
[Python] How can I clean up Wikipedia's XML backup dump to create dictionaries of commonly used words for multiple languages?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 12 Oct 2021

In particular what you're looking at is not XML but wikitext. I found a discussion on stackoverflow about solving the same problem of getting text from wikitext. Seems like the most promising solution in Python since you already have the dump is to run each page through mwparserfromhell. According to the top stackoverflow answer you could use something like
How can I clean up Wikipedia's XML backup dump to create dictionaries of commonly used words for multiple languages?
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 10 Oct 2021

Thank you so much! I was actually talking about the markup language within the text. Turns out it's proprietary to WikiMedia and user lowerthansound kindly suggested I use this: https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell

MediaWiki-Tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of MediaWiki-Tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

MediaWiki-Tools—An open source python package I made for arbitrary sub-setting based on MediaWiki categories.
1 project | /r/opensource | 16 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/wikipedia | 16 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/selfhosted | 16 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/wikipedia | 14 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mwparserfromhell and MediaWiki-Tools you can also consider the following projects:

wikitextparser - A Python library to parse MediaWiki WikiText

mwclient - Python client library to interface with the MediaWiki API

archwiki - MediaWiki used on Arch Linux websites (read-only mirror)

WiktionaryParser - A Python Wiktionary Parser

Wiki-scripts - Scripts used on the official factorio wiki

wikiteam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis. As of 2023, WikiTeam has preserved more than 350,000 wikis.

pywikibot - A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.

isbntools - python app/framework for 'all things ISBN' including metadata, descriptions, covers...