about the use of pywikibot:

is it possible to use to parse the xml dump?

I am interested in extracting links from pages (internal, external, with distinction from ones belonging to category).

I also would like to handle transitive redirect.

I would like to process the dump, without accessing wiki, either access wiki with proper limits in butch.

Is there maybe something in the package already taking care of this ?

I 've seen in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Scripts

there is a "ghost" extracting_links.py" script,

I wonted to ask before re-inventing the wheel, and if pywikibot is suitable tool for the purpose.

Thank you,

L.