wp2git vs mwparserfromhell

wp2git

Downloads and imports Wikipedia page histories to a git repository (by dlenski)

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mwparserfromhell

A Python parser for MediaWiki wikicode (by earwig)

Python Parser Mediawiki Wikipedia

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mwparserfromhell.readthedocs.io

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wp2git		mwparserfromhell
	Project
3	Mentions	4
33	Stars	698
-	Growth	-
3.6	Activity	7.2
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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wp2git

Posts with mentions or reviews of wp2git. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.

Wp2git: Wikipedia page history –> Git repository
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023

(OP but not author: the original seems to only have releases for windows, there's a python fork here: https://github.com/dlenski/wp2git )
dlenski/wp2git
1 project | /r/devopsish | 8 Mar 2021
Wp2git: Downloads and imports Wikipedia page histories to a Git repository
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2021

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 2021-10-10.

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wp2git and mwparserfromhell you can also consider the following projects:

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.

wikitextparser - A Python library to parse MediaWiki WikiText

wp2git - Downloads and imports Wikipedia page histories to a git repository

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

witokit - A Python toolkit to generate a tokenized dump of Wikipedia for NLP

WiktionaryParser - A Python Wiktionary Parser

wiki_dump - A library that assists in traversing and downloading from Wikimedia Data Dumps and their mirrors.

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...

pastevents - A structured, searchable archive of Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal