Hello,

I am in the middle of dumping all DMOZ categories for people to import into their own databases. This will mean you DON'T have to spend hours or even days imporing the data from the 700MB rdf file.

The dumps are gzipped and are of varying size depending obviously on the category (ie Business is larger than Adult).

To give you an idea, I just gzipped 200,000 links at compression 9 and the resulting file was only 13MB. Before gzipping it was 70MB.

The dumps can be imported using MySQLMan or phpMyAdmin and should only take a few minutes to import.

The dumps aren't free because they are taking a huge amount of time to do, for example I am doing the Regional category at the moment and it has taken 3 days so far and is not yet finished.

To obtain the gzipped file you will need to login to your telnet account and issue the following command:

wget ftp://ftp.myurl.com/DMOZ_Dumps/categoryname.tar.gz
(You will be given the proper URL after paying)

This will put the dump on your server. You then need to unzip it....

Please reply to this thread if you are interested or email pwilson@wiredon.net, or send me a pm.

Thanks.

PS. Currently I only have the earlier categories plus Regional but I am working my way through them but it will be a week or two before they are all done.

Paul Wilson.
http://www.wiredon.net/gt/
http://www.perlmad.com/