m_Pageviews {wikiTools}

Get number of views of a Wikipedia article

Description

Use the Wikimedia REST API (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) to get the number of views one article has in a Wikimedia project in a date interval (see granularity). If redirect=TRUE, then get the number of views of all articles that redirects to the article which is the destiny of actual page.

Usage

m_Pageviews(
  article,
  start,
  end,
  project = "en.wikipedia.org",
  access = "all-access",
  agent = "user",
  granularity = "monthly",
  redirects = FALSE
)

Arguments

article

The title of the article to search. Only one article is allowed.

start, end

First and last day to include (format YYYYMMDD or YYYYMMDDHH)

project

The Wikimedia project, defaults en.wikipedia.org

access

Filter by access method: all-access (default), desktop, mobile-app, mobile-web

agent

Filter by agent type: all-agents, user (default), spider, automated

granularity

Time unit for the response data: daily, monthly (default)

redirects

Boolean to include the views of all redirections of the page (defaults: False). If redirects=TRUE then the "normalized" element of the returned vector contains the destiny of the redirection, and the "original" element contains the original title of the article. If a page is just a destiny of other pages, and you want to know the total number of views that page have (including views of redirections), it is also necessary set redirects=TRUE, otherwise only you have the views of that page.

Value

A vector with the number of visits by granularity.

Author(s)

Angel Zazo, Department of Computer Science and Automatics, University of Salamanca

Examples

v <-  m_Pageviews(article="Cervantes", start="20230101", end="20230501",
                   project="es.wikipedia.org", granularity="monthly")
vv <- m_Pageviews(article="Cervantes", start="20230101", end="20230501",
                   project="es.wikipedia.org", granularity="monthly",
                   redirects=TRUE)