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A parser for wikipedia citation templates

Project description

This Python library wraps Wikipedia’s citation processing code (written in Lua) to parse citation templates. For instance, there are many different ways to specify the authors of a citation: this codes maps all of them to the same representation.

Distributed under the MIT license.

Dependencies: lupa, mwparserfromhell

Example

Let’s parse the reference section of this article:

import mwparserfromhell
import wikiciteparser

mwtext = """
===Articles===
 * {{Citation | last1=Lambek | first1=Joachim | author1-link=Joachim Lambek | last2=Moser | first2=L. | title=Inverse and Complementary Sequences of Natural Numbers| doi=10.2307/2308078 | mr=0062777  | journal=[[American Mathematical Monthly|The American Mathematical Monthly]] | issn=0002-9890 | volume=61 | issue=7 | pages=454–458 | year=1954 | jstor=2308078 | publisher=The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 61, No. 7}}
 * {{Citation | last1=Lambek | first1=J. | author1-link=Joachim Lambek | title=The Mathematics of Sentence Structure | year=1958 | journal=[[American Mathematical Monthly|The American Mathematical Monthly]] | issn=0002-9890 | volume=65 | pages=154–170 | doi=10.2307/2310058 | issue=3 | publisher=The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 65, No. 3 | jstor=1480361}}
 *{{Citation | last1=Lambek | first1=Joachim | author1-link=Joachim Lambek | title=Bicommutators of nice injectives | doi=10.1016/0021-8693(72)90034-8 | mr=0301052  | year=1972 | journal=Journal of Algebra | issn=0021-8693 | volume=21 | pages=60–73}}
 *{{Citation | last1=Lambek | first1=Joachim | author1-link=Joachim Lambek | title=Localization and completion | doi=10.1016/0022-4049(72)90011-4 | mr=0320047  | year=1972 | journal=Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra | issn=0022-4049 | volume=2 | pages=343–370 | issue=4}}
 *{{Citation | last1=Lambek | first1=Joachim | author1-link=Joachim Lambek | title=A mathematician looks at Latin conjugation | mr=589163  | year=1979 | journal=Theoretical Linguistics | issn=0301-4428 | volume=6 | issue=2 | pages=221–234 | doi=10.1515/thli.1979.6.1-3.221}}
"""

wikicode = mwparserfromhell.parse(mwtext)
for tpl in wikicode.filter_templates():
   parsed = parse_citation_template(tpl)
   print parsed

Here is what you get:

{u'PublisherName': u'The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 61, No. 7', u'Title': u'Inverse and Complementary Sequences of Natural Numbers', u'ID_list': {u'DOI': u'10.2307/2308078', u'ISSN': u'0002-9890', u'MR': u'0062777', u'JSTOR': u'2308078'}, u'Periodical': u'The American Mathematical Monthly', u'Authors': [{u'link': u'Joachim Lambek', u'last': u'Lambek', u'first': u'Joachim'}, {u'last': u'Moser', u'first': u'L.'}], u'Date': u'1954', u'Pages': u'454-458'}
{u'PublisherName': u'The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 65, No. 3', u'Title': u'The Mathematics of Sentence Structure', u'ID_list': {u'DOI': u'10.2307/2310058', u'ISSN': u'0002-9890', u'JSTOR': u'1480361'}, u'Periodical': u'The American Mathematical Monthly', u'Authors': [{u'link': u'Joachim Lambek', u'last': u'Lambek', u'first': u'J.'}], u'Date': u'1958', u'Pages': u'154-170'}
{u'Title': u'Bicommutators of nice injectives', u'ID_list': {u'DOI': u'10.1016/0021-8693(72)90034-8', u'ISSN': u'0021-8693', u'MR': u'0301052'}, u'Periodical': u'Journal of Algebra', u'Authors': [{u'link': u'Joachim Lambek', u'last': u'Lambek', u'first': u'Joachim'}], u'Date': u'1972', u'Pages': u'60-73'}
{u'Title': u'Localization and completion', u'ID_list': {u'DOI': u'10.1016/0022-4049(72)90011-4', u'ISSN': u'0022-4049', u'MR': u'0320047'}, u'Periodical': u'Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra', u'Authors': [{u'link': u'Joachim Lambek', u'last': u'Lambek', u'first': u'Joachim'}], u'Date': u'1972', u'Pages': u'343-370'}
{u'Title': u'A mathematician looks at Latin conjugation', u'ID_list': {u'DOI': u'10.1515/thli.1979.6.1-3.221', u'ISSN': u'0301-4428', u'MR': u'589163'}, u'Periodical': u'Theoretical Linguistics', u'Authors': [{u'link': u'Joachim Lambek', u'last': u'Lambek', u'first': u'Joachim'}], u'Date': u'1979', u'Pages': u'221-234'}

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