covid19/wikipedia/scripts/fetch_enwiki_revisions.py
Benjamin Mako Hill b457cd726b use the type= feature in argparse
- integrated the type= feature in argparse in all three scripts
- removed some redundant code from the third file
2020-04-01 18:13:02 -05:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
###############################################################################
#
# This script assumes the presence of the COVID-19 repo.
#
# It (1) reads in the article list and then (2) calls the Wikimedia API to
# fetch view information for each article. Output is to (3) JSON and TSV.
#
###############################################################################
import argparse
import logging
import os.path
import json
import datetime
from requests import Request
from csv import DictWriter
from mw import api
import digobs
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Call the views API to collect Wikipedia revision data.')
parser.add_argument('-o', '--output_folder', help='Where to save output', default="wikipedia/data", type=str)
parser.add_argument('-i', '--article_file', help='File listing article names', default="wikipedia/resources/enwp_wikiproject_covid19_articles.txt", type=str)
parser.add_argument('-L', '--logging_level', help='Logging level. Options are debug, info, warning, error, critical. Default: info.', default='info', type=digobs.get_loglevel),
parser.add_argument('-W', '--logging_destination', help='Logging destination file. (default: standard error)', type=str),
args = parser.parse_args()
return(args)
def main():
args = parse_args()
output_path = args.output_folder
article_filename = args.article_file
#handle -W
if args.logging_destination:
logging.basicConfig(filename=args.logging_destination, filemode='a', level=args.logging_level)
else:
logging.basicConfig(level=args.logging_level)
export_time = str(datetime.datetime.now())
export_date = datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%Y%m%d")
logging.info(f"Starting run at {export_time}")
logging.info(f"Last commit: {digobs.git_hash()}")
json_output_filename = os.path.join(output_path, f"digobs_covid19-wikipedia-enwiki_revisions-{export_date}.json")
tsv_output_filename = os.path.join(output_path, f"digobs_covid19-wikipedia-enwiki_revisions-{export_date}.tsv")
api_session = api.Session("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php")
# list of properties from the API we want to gather (basically all of
# them supported by mediawik-utilities)
rv_props = {'revid' : 'ids',
'timestamp' : 'timestamp',
'user' : 'user',
'userid' : 'userid',
'size' : 'size',
'sha1' : 'sha1',
'contentmodel' : 'contentmodel',
'tags' : 'tags',
'flags' : 'flags',
'comment' : 'comment',
'content' : 'content' }
exclude_from_tsv = ['tags', 'comment', 'content', 'flags']
# load the list of articles
with open(article_filename, 'r') as infile:
article_list= list(map(str.strip, infile))
def get_revisions_for_page(title):
return api_session.revisions.query(properties=rv_props.values(),
titles={title},
direction="newer")
tsv_fields = ['title', 'pageid', 'namespace']
tsv_fields = tsv_fields + list(rv_props.keys())
# drop fields that we identified for exclusion
tsv_fields = [e for e in tsv_fields if e not in exclude_from_tsv]
# add special export fields
tsv_fields = tsv_fields + ['anon', 'minor', 'url', 'export_timestamp', 'export_commit']
export_info = { 'git_commit' : digobs.git_hash(),
'timestamp' : export_time }
with open(json_output_filename, 'w') as json_output, \
open(tsv_output_filename, 'w') as tsv_output:
tsv_writer = DictWriter(tsv_output, fieldnames=tsv_fields, delimiter="\t")
tsv_writer.writeheader()
for article in article_list:
logging.info(f"pulling revisions for: {article}")
for rev in get_revisions_for_page(article):
logging.debug(f"processing raw revision: {rev}")
# add export metadata
rev['exported'] = export_info
# save the json version of the code
print(json.dumps(rev), file=json_output)
# handle missing data
if "sha1" not in rev:
rev["sha1"] = ""
if "userhidden" in rev:
rev["user"] = ""
rev["userid"] = ""
# recode anon so it's true or false instead of present/missing
if "anon" in rev:
rev["anon"] = True
else:
rev["anon"] = False
# let's recode "minor" in the same way
if "minor" in rev:
rev["minor"] = True
else:
rev["minor"] = False
# add page title information
rev['title'] = rev['page']['title']
rev['pageid'] = rev['page']['pageid']
rev['namespace'] = rev['page']['ns']
# construct a URL
rev['url'] = Request('GET', 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php',
params={'title' : rev['title'].replace(" ", "_"),
'oldid' : rev['revid']}).prepare().url
rev['export_timestamp'] = export_time
rev['export_commit'] = digobs.git_hash(short=True)
tsv_writer.writerow({k: rev[k] for k in tsv_fields})
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()