The Wikipedia page stats API#

Via https://alexgarcia.xyz/dataflow/examples/wiki-pageviews/ I found this API for retrieving daily pageview stats from Wikipedia for any article:

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia.org/all-access/user/Python_(programming_language)/daily/20210101/20210501
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia.org/all-access/user/Simon_Willison/daily/20210101/20210501

Example response:

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{
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  "items": [
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    {
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      "project": "en.wikipedia",
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      "article": "Python_(programming_language)",
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      "granularity": "daily",
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      "timestamp": "2021010100",
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      "access": "all-access",
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      "agent": "user",
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      "views": 7238
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    },
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    {
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      "project": "en.wikipedia",
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      "article": "Python_(programming_language)",
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      "granularity": "daily",
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      "timestamp": "2021010200",
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      "access": "all-access",
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      "agent": "user",
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      "views": 8449
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    },
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    {
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      "project": "en.wikipedia",
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      "article": "Python_(programming_language)",
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      "granularity": "daily",
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      "timestamp": "2021010300",
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      "access": "all-access",
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      "agent": "user",
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      "views": 8669
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    }
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  ]
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}