Finding subcategories of a wikipedia category using category and categorylinks table

Question

I downloaded the category and categorylinks table sql.gz files from mediawiki and generated the required tables:

category and categorylinks

Manual for the ta

Answer 1

Categories alone have no hierachy. It’s the category pages that make the subcategorization work. So you will also have to get the page_id from the page table to be able to resolve this relation.

It essentially works like this:

1. Category’s cat_title is a page title.
2. Find that page_title in the page table, get the page_id
3. Use the page_id to get the category link in cl_from
4. Get the parent category title from cl_to
5. Repeat from 2