MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat::Links(3pm)

Usage

  use MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat;
  
  $pmwd = Parse::MediaWikiDump->new;
  $links = $pmwd->links('pagelinks.sql');
  $links = $pmwd->links(\*FILEHANDLE);
  
  #print the links between articles 
  while(defined($link = $links->next)) {
    print 'from ', $link->from, ' to ', $link->namespace, ':', $link->to, "\n";
  }

About

This object is used to access content of the SQL based category dump files by providing an iterative interface for extracting the individual article links to the same. Objects returned are an instance of Parse::MediaWikiDump::link.

Methods

Parse::MediaWikiDump::Links->new: Create a new instance of a page links dump file parser

$links->next: Return the next available Parse::MediaWikiDump::link object or undef if there is no more data left

Examples

List all links between articles in a friendly way

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  use MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat;
  
  my $pmwd = Parse::MediaWikiDump->new;
  my $links = $pmwd->links(shift) or die "must specify a pagelinks dump file";
  my $dump = $pmwd->pages(shift) or die "must specify an article dump file";
  my %id_to_namespace;
  my %id_to_pagename;
  
  binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8');
  
  #build a map between namespace ids to namespace names
  foreach (@{$dump->namespaces}) {
        my $id = $_->[0];
        my $name = $_->[1];     
  
        $id_to_namespace{$id} = $name;
  }
  
  #build a map between article ids and article titles
  while(my $page = $dump->next) {
        my $id = $page->id;
        my $title = $page->title;
  
        $id_to_pagename{$id} = $title;
  }
  
  $dump = undef; #cleanup since we don't need it anymore
  
  while(my $link = $links->next) {
        my $namespace = $link->namespace;
        my $from = $link->from;
        my $to = $link->to;
        my $namespace_name = $id_to_namespace{$namespace};      
        my $fully_qualified;
        my $from_name = $id_to_pagename{$from};
  
        if ($namespace_name eq '') {
                #default namespace
                $fully_qualified = $to;
        } else {
                $fully_qualified = "$namespace_name:$to";
        }
  
        print "Article \"$from_name\" links to \"$fully_qualified\"\n";
  }

Releases

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