Wiki-Search-Engine

Getting the output

• Make three empty folders for indexed_blocks, merged_blocks and id2title

1. First run indexer.py with following arguments. First argument:- /path/to/xml/dump Second argument:- /path/to/folder/of/indexed_blocks/ It will create index blocks of a particular maximum size with file name format " .txt"

   example usage:- python3 indexer.py /path/to/xml/dump /path/to/folder/of/indexed_blocks/

2. Second run merger.py with following arguments. First argument:- /path/to/folder/of/indexed_blocks/ Second argument:- /path/to/folder/of/merged_blocks/ It will create merged blocks of a particular maximum size with same file name format as before.

   example usage:- python3 merger.py /path/to/folder/of/indexed_blocks/ /path/to/folder/of/merged_blocks/

3. Third run id2title.py with following arguments. First argument:- /path/to/xml/dump Second argument:- /path/to/folder/of/docid2title/

   example usage:- python3 id2title.py /path/to/xml/dump /path/to/folder/of/docid2title dict/

4. Last run search.py with following arguments: First argument:- /path/to/folder/of/indexed_blocks/ Second argument:- /path/to/folder/of/docid2title dict/ Third argument:- /path/to/folder/of/merged_blocks/

   example usage:- python3 search.py /path/to/folder/of/indexed_blocks/ /path/to/folder/of/docid2title dict/ /path/to/folder/of/merged_blocks/