Countless MediaWikis are still waiting to be archived.
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wikiteam3 is a fork of mediawiki-scraper.
Originally, mediawiki-scraper was named wikiteam3, but wikiteam upstream (py2 version) suggested that the name should be changed to avoid confusion with the original wikiteam.
Half a year later, we didn't see any py3 porting progress in the original wikiteam, and mediawiki-scraper lacks "code" reviewers.
So, we decided to break that suggestion, fork and named it back to wikiteam3, put the code here, and release it to pypi wildly.
Everything still under GPLv3 license.
We archive every MediaWiki site yearly and upload to the Internet Archive.
We crawl sites with 1.5s crawl-delay by default, and we respect Retry-After header.
If you don’t want your wiki to be archived, add the following to your <domain>/robots.txt:
User-agent: wikiteam3
Disallow: /Our bots are running on the following IPs: wikiteam3.txt (ips+info) | wikiteam3.ips.txt (ips)
pip install wikiteam3 --upgradeNote
For public MediaWiki, you don't need to install wikiteam3 locally. You can send an archive request (include the reason for the archive request, e.g. wiki is about to shutdown, need a wikidump to migrate to another wikifarm, etc.) to the wikiteam IRC channel. An online member will run a wikibot job for your request.
Even more, we also accept DokuWiki and PukiWiki archive requests.
- wikiteam IRC (webirc): https://chat.hackint.org/?join=%23wikiteam
- wikiteam IRC logs: https://irclogs.archivete.am/wikiteam
usage: wikiteam3dumpgenerator [-h] [-v] [--cookies cookies.txt] [--delay 1.5]
[--retries 5] [--hard-retries 3] [--path PATH]
[--resume] [--force] [--user USER]
[--pass PASSWORD] [--http-user HTTP_USER]
[--http-pass HTTP_PASSWORD] [--insecure]
[--verbose] [--api_chunksize 50] [--api API]
[--index INDEX] [--index-check-threshold 0.80]
[--xml] [--curonly] [--xmlapiexport]
[--xmlrevisions] [--xmlrevisions_page]
[--redirects] [--namespaces 1,2,3]
[--exnamespaces 1,2,3] [--images]
[--bypass-cdn-image-compression]
[--image-timestamp-interval 2019-01-02T01:36:06Z/2023-08-12T10:36:06Z]
[--ia-wbm-booster {0,1,2,3}]
[--assert-max-pages 123]
[--assert-max-edits 123]
[--assert-max-images 123]
[--assert-max-images-bytes 123]
[--get-wiki-engine] [--failfast] [--upload]
[-g UPLOADER_ARGS]
[wiki]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
--cookies cookies.txt
path to a cookies.txt file
--delay 1.5 adds a delay (in seconds) [NOTE: most HTTP servers
have a 5s HTTP/1.1 keep-alive timeout, you should
consider it if you wanna reuse the connection]
--retries 5 Maximum number of retries for each request before
failing.
--hard-retries 3 Maximum number of hard retries for each request before
failing. (for now, this only controls the hard retries
during images downloading)
--path PATH path to store wiki dump at
--resume resumes previous incomplete dump (requires --path)
--force download it even if Wikimedia site or a recent dump
exists in the Internet Archive
--user USER Username if MediaWiki authentication is required.
--pass PASSWORD Password if MediaWiki authentication is required.
--http-user HTTP_USER
Username if HTTP authentication is required.
--http-pass HTTP_PASSWORD
Password if HTTP authentication is required.
--insecure Disable SSL certificate verification
--verbose
--api_chunksize 50 Chunk size for MediaWiki API (arvlimit, ailimit, etc.)
wiki URL to wiki (e.g. http://wiki.domain.org), auto
detects API and index.php
--api API URL to API (e.g. http://wiki.domain.org/w/api.php)
--index INDEX URL to index.php (e.g.
http://wiki.domain.org/w/index.php), (not supported
with --images on newer(?) MediaWiki without --api)
--index-check-threshold 0.80
pass index.php check if result is greater than (>)
this value (default: 0.80)
Data to download:
What info download from the wiki
--xml Export XML dump using Special:Export (index.php).
(supported with --curonly)
--curonly store only the latest revision of pages
--xmlapiexport Export XML dump using API:revisions instead of
Special:Export, use this when Special:Export fails and
xmlrevisions not supported. (supported with --curonly)
--xmlrevisions Export all revisions from an API generator
(API:Allrevisions). MediaWiki 1.27+ only. (not
supported with --curonly)
--xmlrevisions_page [[! Development only !]] Export all revisions from an
API generator, but query page by page MediaWiki 1.27+
only. (default: --curonly)
--redirects Dump page redirects via API:Allredirects
--namespaces 1,2,3 comma-separated value of namespaces to include (all by
default)
--exnamespaces 1,2,3 [lack maintenance] comma-separated value of namespaces
to exclude
--images Generates an image dump
Image dump options:
Options for image dump (--images)
--bypass-cdn-image-compression
Bypass CDN image compression. (CloudFlare Polish,
etc.) [WARNING: This will increase CDN origin traffic,
and not effective for all HTTP Server/CDN, please
don't use this blindly.]
--image-timestamp-interval 2019-01-02T01:36:06Z/2023-08-12T10:36:06Z
Only download images uploaded in the given time
interval. [format: ISO 8601 UTC interval] (only works
with api)
--ia-wbm-booster {0,1,2,3}
Download images from Internet Archive Wayback Machine
if possible, reduce the bandwidth usage of the wiki.
[0: disabled (default), 1: use earliest snapshot, 2:
use latest snapshot, 3: the closest snapshot to the
image's upload time]
Assertions:
What assertions to check before actually downloading, if any assertion
fails, program will exit with exit code 45. [NOTE: This feature requires
correct siteinfo API response from the wiki, and not working properly with
some wikis. But it's useful for mass automated archiving, so you can
schedule a re-run
8000
for HUGE wiki that may run out of your disk]
--assert-max-pages 123
Maximum number of pages to download
--assert-max-edits 123
Maximum number of edits to download
--assert-max-images 123
Maximum number of images to download
--assert-max-images-bytes 123
Maximum number of bytes to download for images [NOTE:
this assert happens after downloading images list]
Meta info:
What meta info to retrieve from the wiki
--get-wiki-engine returns the wiki engine
--failfast [lack maintenance] Avoid resuming, discard failing
wikis quickly. Useful only for mass downloads.
wikiteam3uploader params:
--upload (run `wikiteam3uplaoder` for you) Upload wikidump to
Internet Archive after successfully dumped
-g, --uploader-arg UPLOADER_ARGS
Arguments for uploader.
wikiteam3dumpgenerator http://wiki.domain.org --xml --imagesWarning
NTFS/Windows users please note: When using --images, because NTFS does not allow characters such as :*?"<>| in filenames, some files may not be downloaded, please pay attention to the XXXXX could not be created by OS error in your errors.log.
We will not make special treatment for NTFS/EncFS "path too long/illegal filename", highly recommend you to use ext4/xfs/btrfs, etc.
If the script can't find itself the api.php and/or index.php paths, then you can provide them:
wikiteam3dumpgenerator --api http://wiki.domain.org/w/api.php --xml --imageswikiteam3dumpgenerator --api http://wiki.domain.org/w/api.php --index http://wiki.domain.org/w/index.php \
--xml --imagesIf you only want the XML histories, just use --xml. For only the images, just --images. For only the current version of every page, --xml --curonly.
wikiteam3dumpgenerator \
--api http://wiki.domain.org/w/api.php --xml --images --resume --path /path/to/incomplete-dumpIn the above example, --path is only necessary if the download path (wikidump dir) is not the default.
[!NOTE]
en: When resuming an incomplete dump, the configuration in
config.jsonwill override the CLI parameters. (But not all CLI parameters will be ignored, checkconfig.jsonfor details)
wikiteam3dumpgenerator will also ask you if you want to resume if it finds an incomplete dump in the path where it is downloading.
usage: Upload wikidump to the Internet Archive. [-h] [-kf KEYS_FILE]
[-c COLLECTION] [--dry-run]
[-u] [--bin-zstd BIN_ZSTD]
[--zstd-level {17,18,19,20,21,22}]
[--rezstd]
[--rezstd-endpoint URL]
[--bin-7z BIN_7Z]
[--parallel]
wikidump_dir
positional arguments:
wikidump_dir
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-kf, --keys_file KEYS_FILE
Path to the IA S3 keys file. (first line: access key,
second line: secret key) [default:
~/.wikiteam3_ia_keys.txt]
-c, --collection COLLECTION
--dry-run Dry run, do not upload anything.
-u, --update Update existing item. [!! not implemented yet !!]
--bin-zstd BIN_ZSTD Path to zstd binary. [default: zstd]
--zstd-level {17,18,19,20,21,22}
Zstd compression level. [default: 17] If you have a
lot of RAM, recommend to use max level (22).
--rezstd [server-side recompression] Upload pre-compressed zstd
files to rezstd server for recompression with best
settings (which may eat 10GB+ RAM), then download
back. (This feature saves your lowend machine, lol)
--rezstd-endpoint URL
Rezstd server endpoint. [default: http://pool-
rezstd.saveweb.org/rezstd/] (source code:
https://github.com/yzqzss/rezstd)
--bin-7z BIN_7Z Path to 7z binary. [default: 7z]
--parallel Parallelize compression tasks
Note
Please make sure you have the following requirements before using wikiteam3uploader, and you don't need to install them if you don't wanna upload the dump to IA.
-
unbinded localhost port 62954 (for multiple processes compressing queue)
-
3GB+ RAM (~2.56GB for commpressing)
-
64-bit OS (required by 2G
wlogsize) -
7z(binary)Debian/Ubuntu: install
p7zip-full[!NOTE]
Windows: install https://7-zip.org and add
7z.exeto PATH -
zstd(binary)1.5.5+ (recommended), v1.5.0-v1.5.4(DO NOT USE), 1.4.8 (minimum)
install from https://github.com/facebook/zstd[!NOTE]
Windows: add
zstd.exeto PATH
Note
Read wikiteam3uploader --help and do not forget ~/.wikiteam3_ia_keys.txt before using wikiteam3uploader.
wikiteam3uploader {YOUR_WIKI_DUMP_PATH}TODO: xml2titles.py
If you want to check the XML dump integrity, type this into your command line to count title, page and revision XML tags:
grep -E '<title(.*?)>' *.xml -c; grep -E '<page(.*?)>' *.xml -c; grep \
"</page>" *.xml -c;grep -E '<revision(.*?)>' *.xml -c;grep "</revision>" *.xml -cYou should see something similar to this (not the actual numbers) - the first three numbers should be the same and the last two should be the same as each other:
580
580
580
5677
5677If your first three numbers or your last two numbers are different, then, your XML dump is corrupt (it contains one or more unfinished </page> or </revision>). This is not common in small wikis, but large or very large wikis may fail at this due to truncated XML pages while exporting and merging. The solution is to remove the XML dump and re-download, a bit boring, and it can fail again.
Important
In the article name, spaces and underscores are treated as equivalent and each is converted to the other in the appropriate context (underscore in URL and database keys, spaces in plain text). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Title.php#Article_name
Note
WikiTeam3 uses zstd to compress .xml and .txt files, and 7z to pack images (media files).
zstd is a very fast stream compression algorithm, you can use zstd -d to decompress .zst file/steam.
WikiTeam is the Archive Team [GitHub] subcommittee on wikis. It was founded and originally developed by Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, a Wikipedia veteran editor and amateur archivist. Thanks to people who have helped, especially to: Federico Leva, Alex Buie, Scott Boyd, Hydriz, Platonides, Ian McEwen, Mike Dupont, balr0g and PiRSquared17.
Mediawiki-Scraper The Python 3 initiative is currently being led by Elsie Hupp, with contributions from Victor Gambier, Thomas Karcher, Janet Cobb, yzqzss, NyaMisty and Rob Kam
WikiTeam3 Every archivist who has uploaded a wikidump to the Internet Archive.