mediawiki

Tool for exporting the entire contents of a mediawiki site in XML format. This tool needs python3.

This tool finds all wiki namespaces ( such as User, Talk, etc ), and for each namespace then proceeds to download all pages. wikiexport can also download all binary files found on the wiki.

OPTIONS

• --history include history in the export.
• --savedir DIR save binary files to directory DIR.
• --limit NUM specify maximum simultaneous downloads.
• --batchsize NUM specify the number of pages to download in one batch.

EXAMPLE

python3 mediawiki.py  https://yourwiki.com/Mainpage

BUGS

This does not work with all mediawiki sites, variation between sites can be quite large. Also some sites implement some kind of rate limiting, which causes the site to reject requests from this tool.

AUTHOR

Willem Hengeveld itsme@xs4all.nl