Although functionally limited, the small Wiktionary parser I developed a few years ago has served its purpose. It was meant to provide a fast and easy way to extract specific information for a given word, which would then be included in a separate database. Its output is crude; its abilities meagre. I may, in the future, work on expanding its functionality, but given that I have other projects to work on, I can’t be sure if this will in fact ever happen.
What follows are links to other similar resources for those of you who require more functionality from a Wiktionary parser. My thanks to Gyuri at ProofreadBot for many of these links.
- Java Wiktionary Library (English and German Wiktionaries)
- Perl Wiktionary Parser (multilingual)
- Wiki Tool Kit (English and Russian)
- Wiktionary RDF Extraction (DBpedia; English, German, French, Russian)
- SemWiktionary (French)
- Python Wiktionary Parser (German)
- Python Wikipedia Robot Framework (not exactly a parser, but contains a number of useful scripts)
I would also like to emphasize that all MediaWiki projects offer a very robust API with output in a number of different formats, though JSON seems to be the only future proof structure.
