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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ Each file will contains several documents in this [document format](https://gith

```
usage: wikiextractor [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-b n[KMG]] [-c] [--json] [--html] [-l] [-ns ns1,ns2]
[--templates TEMPLATES] [--no-templates] [--html-safe HTML_SAFE] [--processes PROCESSES]
[-q] [--debug] [-a] [-v]
[--preserve-unicode] [--templates TEMPLATES] [--no-templates] [--html-safe HTML_SAFE] [--processes PROCESSES] [-q] [--debug] [-a] [-v]
input

Wikipedia Extractor:
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maximum bytes per output file (default 1M)
-c, --compress compress output files using bzip
--json write output in json format instead of the default <doc> format
--preserve-unicode
Do not convert unicode characters to ascii characters when using JSON output

Processing:
--html produce HTML output, subsumes --links
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions wikiextractor/WikiExtractor.py
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Expand Up @@ -548,6 +548,8 @@ def main():
help="compress output files using bzip")
groupO.add_argument("--json", action="store_true",
help="write output in json format instead of the default <doc> format")
groupO.add_argument("--preserve-unicode", action="store_true",
help="Do not convert unicode characters to ascii characters when using JSON output")

groupP = parser.add_argument_group('Processing')
groupP.add_argument("--html", action="store_true",
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if args.html:
Extractor.keepLinks = True
Extractor.to_json = args.json
Extractor.preserve_unicode = args.preserve_unicode

try:
power = 'kmg'.find(args.bytes[-1].lower()) + 1
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion wikiextractor/extract.py
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Expand Up @@ -982,7 +982,10 @@ def extract(self, out, html_safe=True):
'title': self.title,
'text': "\n".join(text)
}
out_str = json.dumps(json_data)
if self.preserve_unicode:
out_str = json.dumps(json_data, ensure_ascii=False)
else:
out_str = json.dumps(json_data)
out.write(out_str)
out.write('\n')
else:
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