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I needed to get a list of MediaWiki page names of pages that contained a certain string (“needle”) from a MediaWiki XML dump. This is how I got it, using XMLStarlet<\/a>:<\/p>\n Here comes one of those “I’ve got to write that down somewhere, and maybe it will be useful for someone else, too” posts: I needed to get a list of MediaWiki page names of pages that contained a certain string (“needle”) from a MediaWiki XML dump. This is how I got it, using XMLStarlet: xml … Continue reading “How to extract a list of pages containing a string from a MediaWiki XML dump”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}xml sel -N mw=http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/xml\/export-0.3\/ \\\r\n -t \\\r\n -m \"\/mw:mediawiki\/mw:page\/mw:revision\/mw:text[contains(string(.), 'needle')]\" \\\r\n -n \\\r\n -v \"..\/..\/mw:title\" wikiexport.xml \\\r\n| xml unesc<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"