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How to Solve wikiextractor Extract Wikipedia Corpus Error

When I extracted Wikipedia corpus, I first used the wikiextractor. Later, I found that it was always wrong, so it was useless. Since many people asked me how to extract the corpus, I now publish the code

I didn’t write the code, but I found it from a website. Because it took too long and I forgot the address of the website, I can’t post the original URL. If the author sees it, please send a private letter to my original URL

The author’s email address is: [email protected]

How to use: enter the command at the command line:

python data_pre_process.py zhwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2(Wikipedia Corpus) wiki.zh.text(Saved files)

Source code:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author: Pan Yang ([email protected])
# Copyrigh 2017
from __future__ import print_function

import logging
import os.path
import six
import sys

from IPython.core.page import page
from gensim.corpora import WikiCorpus

page.encoding = 'utf-8'

# Wrapping the Wikipedia xml corpus into txt format
# python data_pre_process.py zhwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 wiki.zh.text
if __name__ == '__main__':
    program = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
    logger = logging.getLogger(program)

    logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
    logging.root.setLevel(level=logging.INFO)
    logger.info("running %s" % ' '.join(sys.argv))

    # check and process input arguments
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print("Using: python process_wiki.py enwiki.xxx.xml.bz2 wiki.en.text")
        sys.exit(1)
    inp, outp = sys.argv[1:3]
    space = " "
    i = 0

    output = open(outp, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
    wiki = WikiCorpus(inp, dictionary={})
    for text in wiki.get_texts():
        if six.PY3:
            output.write(bytes(' '.join(text), 'utf-8').decode('utf-8') + '\n')
            #   ###another method
            #   output.write(space.join(map(lambda x: x.decode("utf-8"), str(text))) + '\n')
        else:
            output.write(space.join(text) + "\n")
        i = i + 1
        if i % 10000 == 0:
            logger.info("Saved " + str(i) + " articles")

    output.close()
    logger.info("Finished Saved " + str(i) + " articles")