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The stats.grok.se tool provides the pageview statistics of a particular page in wikipedia. Is there a method to use the wikipedia api to get the same information? What does the page views counter property actually mean?
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The pageview stats tool is available from any page, in two ways: 1) Click "Page information" under "Tools" in the sidebar and then "Page view statistics" at the bottom. 2) Click the history tab and then "Pageviews" near the top.
A web-based free encyclopedia, Wikipedia is available in many languages and is among the top 5 websites on the internet. The largest general reference body of work on the internet, its uses in applications offer countless possibilities.
Using the Wikipedia API. Let's say that you wanted your web application to pull in data from a source like Wikipedia. With an API, we can programatically pull the information right from Wikipedia, and format it to fit our project, app, or website nicely - only showing the information that we want.
The Pageview API was released a few days ago: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/{project}/{access}/{agent}/{article}/{granularity}/{start}/{end}
For example https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/all-agents/Foo/daily/20151010/20151012 will give you
{
"items": [
{
"project": "en.wikipedia",
"article": "Foo",
"granularity": "daily",
"timestamp": "2015101000",
"access": "all-access",
"agent": "all-agents",
"views": 79
},
{
"project": "en.wikipedia",
"article": "Foo",
"granularity": "daily",
"timestamp": "2015101100",
"access": "all-access",
"agent": "all-agents",
"views": 81
}
]
}
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