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import-wikidata-dump-to-couchdb

A tool to transfer an extract of a wikidata dump into a CouchDB database

2024 archive note

This tool was a bit of a naive implementation; if I wanted to do that today, I would do it differently, and make sure to use CouchDB bulk mode:

Get a wikidata json dump

Optionally, filter to get the desired subset. In any case, turn the dump into valid NDJSON (drop the first and last lines and the comma at the end of each lines).

Pass each entity through a function to move the "id" attribute to "_id", using https://github.com/maxlath/ndjson-apply, to match CouchDB requirements.

Bulk upload the result to CouchDB using https://github.com/maxlath/couchdb-bulk2

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Dependency

NodeJS >= v6. If your distribution doesn't provide an recent version of NodeJS, you might want to uninstall NodeJS and reinstall it using NVM

Installation

git clone https://github.com/maxlath/import-wikidata-dump-to-couchdb
cd import-wikidata-dump-to-couchdb
npm install

Now you can customize ./config/default.js to your needs.

How to

Download dump

Download Wikidata latest dump

Extract subset

Extract the subset of the dump fitting your needs, as you might not want to throw ~40Go at your database's face.

For instance, for the needs of the authors-birthday bot, I wanted to keep only Wikidata entities of writers:

As each line of the dump is an entity, you could do something like this with grep

cat dump.json | grep '36180\,' > isWriter.json

Here the trick is that every entity with occupation-> writer (P106->Q36180) will have 36180 somewhere in the line (as a claim numeric-id). And tadaa, you went from a 39Go dump to a way nicer 384Mo subset.

But now, we can do something cleaner using wikidata-filter:

cat dump.json | wikidata-filter --claim P106:Q36180 > isWriter.json

Import

This new file isnt valid json (it's line-delimited JSON), but every new line is, once you remove the coma at the end of the line, so here is the plan: take every line, remove the coma, PUT it in your database:

./import.js ./isWriter.json

Specify start and end line numbers:

startline=5
# the line 10 will be included
endline=10
./import.js ./isWriter.json $startline $endline

Behavior on conflict

In the config file (./config/default.js), you can set the behavior on conflict, that is, when the importers tries to add an entity that was already previously added to CouchDB:

update (default): update document if there is a change, otherwise pass.
pass: always pass
exit: exit process at first conflict

License

MIT