A repository for downloading wikipedia revisions. Used in Fundamentals of Social Data Science for the MSc Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute
The dependencies can be installed using pip:
pip install .NB: Remember to use some kind of virtual environment to avoid a world of pain!
The script download_wiki_revisions.py will download xml-files for the last n revisions of a given wikipedia page. It has the following usage:
usage: download_wiki_revisions.py [-h] [--limit LIMIT] page
Download Wikipedia page revisions
positional arguments:
page Title of the Wikipedia page
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--limit LIMIT Number of revisions to download (default: 10)
--update Instruct whether to update the current revisions (default:False)