sempre/tables/wikipedia-scripts/README

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Tools for extracting data from Wikipedia
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See the docstring of each file for descriptions
Extracting categories
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Requires SQL dumps of category data
- dump.py
* Dump a field from an SQL dump
- extract.py
* Extract categories and their members (requires multiple steps)
- format.py
* Reformat Wikipedia article names
Extracting articles
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Requires Wikipedia dump (bz2)
- get-wikipedia-pages.py
* Get wikipedia pages from the dump
- download-wikipedia-pages.py
* Download wikipedia pages using the metadata from get-wikipedia-pages.py
- display.*
* Display the downloaded pages
- find-good-tables.py
* Find pages with information-rich tables
Other utilities
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- decode-html
* Decode HTML entities (&lt; becomes <)
- convert-to-html / convert-all-to-html
* Use pandoc to convert Markup to HTML (not that reliable)
- table-to-csv.py
* Does what it says