Hi Anandroid,

We don't publish pageviews per country via APIs yet.  We have to take care
to sanitize the data properly before doing so, and that's something we're
tackling in the next fiscal year (starting in 3 months at the earliest).
We will announce it to this list, so do subscribe if you're interested in
updates.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Anandroid Inc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi team,
>
> Can you help here?
> Is there any api to fetch most viewed wiki pages countrywise?
> For instance, most viewed pages in India, USA, UK etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Anand
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Michael Holloway <[email protected]>
> *Date:* 7 April 2017 at 9:58:22 PM IST
> *To:* Anandroid Inc <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" <mediawiki-api@lists.
> wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* *Re: [Mediawiki-api] Wikipedia most viewed pages data*
>
> Anand,
>
> I don't believe we track per-article pageview counts by country.  However,
> it might be worth asking on [email protected] to be sure, as
> they're the experts on our analytics infrastructure.
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Anandroid Inc <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Michael, this clears it.
>> One last question is there a way to get the most viewed pages countrywise.
>> For instance, most viewed pages in India, USA, UK etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anand
>>
>> On 07-Apr-2017, at 8:58 PM, Michael Holloway <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Whoops!  Meant to reply to list.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Michael Holloway <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anand,
>>>
>>> It looks like the results from those two queries are from different
>>> days.  The first set is from April 5 and the second is from April 6.  For
>>> the results from April 5 in the REST API, you'll want
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2017/04/06.
>>>
>>> Also please note that the results from the Action API (api.php) aren't
>>> sorted in decreasing pageview order as the REST API's are.  You'll need to
>>> sort them yourself.  (Depending on the number of results you need, you
>>> should also familiarize yourself with query continuation
>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries> as well
>>> as the result limits per request on the various modules you're using (for
>>> instance, 20 for TextExtracts and 50 for PageImages as indicated at the
>>> bottom of the results of your query)).
>>>
>>> After ensuring you have the same date and sorting the Action API
>>> results, you should have the same or very similar results.  For instance,
>>> looking at the results from April 5, it looks like "Lake Nyos Disaster" is
>>> on top with 497638 pageviews in both sets.  You still might see slight
>>> discrepancies between the two sources due to implementation details,
>>> however; for instance, in the REST API endpoint we use a heuristic to
>>> attempt to filter out pages with pageview counts likely inflated by bot
>>> traffic, and so a few pages here and there that appear in the Action API
>>> results wouldn't appear in the REST API list.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Anandroid Inc <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for your support and quick responses.
>>>> As per all the suggestions you gave for my query, I found below two
>>>> apis which solves my purpose,
>>>> But I see both queries ask for todays most viewed pages on wikipedia
>>>> but they are returning different results.
>>>> Request you to please help me on this.
>>>>
>>>> 1)
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&;
>>>> prop=extracts%7Cinfo%7Cpageimages%7Cpageviews%7Cpageterms%7C
>>>> pageprops%7Crevisions&generator=mostviewed&exchars=512&exlim
>>>> it=max&exintro=1&explaintext=1&exsectionformat=plain&inprop
>>>> =url&pithumbsize=640&pilimit=max&wbptterms=description%
>>>> 7Calias%7Clabel&gpvimlimit=50&pvipdays=1
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts%7Cinfo%7Cpageimages%7Cpageviews%7Cpageterms%7Cpageprops%7Crevisions&generator=mostviewed&exchars=512&exlimit=max&exintro=1&explaintext=1&exsectionformat=plain&inprop=url&pithumbsize=640&pilimit=max&wbptterms=description%7Calias%7Clabel&gpvimlimit=100&pvipdays=1>
>>>>
>>>> 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2017/04/07
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07-Apr-2017, at 3:43 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For the action API I think you're looking for an extra property,
>>>> *pageviews*. Maybe something like this:
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=quer
>>>> y&format=json&prop=extracts%7Cinfo%7Cpageimages%7Cpageviews%
>>>> 7Cpageterms%7Cpageprops%7Crevisions&generator=mostviewed&exc
>>>> hars=512&exlimit=max&exintro=1&explaintext=1&exsectionforma
>>>> t=plain&inprop=url&pithumbsize=640&pilimit=max&
>>>> pvipdays=8&wbptterms=description%7Calias%7Clabel&gpvimlimit=20
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Anandroid Inc <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ++Michael
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07-Apr-2017, at 3:09 AM, Anandroid Inc <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your quick response.
>>>>> This is very helpful, exactly what I was looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Anand
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07-Apr-2017, at 12:08 AM, Michael Holloway <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Anand,
>>>>>
>>>>> It sounds like the REST API's featured feed endpoint
>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/aggregatedFeed>
>>>>> provides what you're looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>> For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/r
>>>>> est_v1/feed/featured/2017/04/06 (see the content under the "mostread"
>>>>> key).
>>>>>
>>>>> Under the hood, titles are obtained from the Pageview API
>>>>> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI> and then
>>>>> supplementary information for our desired titles is obtained from the REST
>>>>> API's page summary endpoint
>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_page_summary_title>.
>>>>> That would be the easiest way to go if you'd like to go in a slightly
>>>>> different direction from what's provided in our featured feed endpoint.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you'd like, you can view the implementation for the "mostread"
>>>>> section of our aggregated feed endpoint here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GMOA/browse/mast
>>>>> er/lib/feed/most-read.js
>>>>>
>>>>> Please note that as of now the REST API endpoints are officially
>>>>> designated as unstable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Anandroid Inc <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the great api provided for all the wiki info.
>>>>>> I am looking for a combination of right parameters which will return
>>>>>> me most viewed pages with the page url, article snippet, thumbnail image
>>>>>> url.
>>>>>> Hope you can help with this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Anand
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