Hi Chris, On 21 February 2012 02:00, Chris Watkins <[email protected]>wrote:
> Is there a way to get a bot to list pageviews for all pages in a category? > I found mentions of self.counter has to do with pageviews, but I can't find > a script that uses it. > > I cannot find any reference to a counter that has to do with pageviews in the framework; they seem all related to counting something else (e.g. the number of categories, or the number of edits). The API does expose a 'counter' item, however: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties I was asked: "Do you have a bot that can report the page view counts for > the pages in the > http://www.appropedia.org/Category:JMC330_International_Mass_Communicationcategory?"; > > You can call the API directly from the framework, for example: >>> import wikipedia >>> site = wikipedia.getSite('en', 'appropedia') >>> p = wikipedia.Page(site, 'Category:JMC330_International_Mass_Communication') >>> import query >>> query.GetData({'action': 'query', 'prop': 'info', 'titles': p.title()}, site)['query']['pages'].values()[0]['counter'] 4230 Hope this helps. Best, Merlijn
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