How to Parse Wikipedia dumps to create links graph?

Question

I am looking for a way to parse wikipedia dumps and retrieve the hyper-links found in each page. My main objective is create a directed-graph on possible paths for going from one wikipedia page to another.

For example: The page definition of "Dog" has a link to "Canis lupus". So I would have a Dog-> Canis Lupus as output.

PS: I would prefer python libraries if there are any.

Answer 1

The simplest way would be to use the dump that already contains information about links between pages: pagelinks.sql. To use it, you would import it into a MySQL database and then you can access that database from any language. To make sense of the data in that dump, you will also need to import page.sql.