Wikidata:Pywikibot - Python 3 Tutorial/Page views
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Get the page views from items
[edit]# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import pywikibot
import pywikibot.data.api as api
import pprint #Only for structuring the JSON file
"""
Using API calls to get pageviews
"""
site = pywikibot.Site("wikidata", "wikidata")
item = pywikibot.Page(site, "Q42")
req = api.Request(site=site, parameters={'action': 'query', #https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Q42&prop=pageviews
'titles': item.title(),
'prop': 'pageviews'})
pprint.pprint(req.submit()['query']['pages'][str(item.pageid)]['pageviews']) #Can also use print
Result: Page view for each day.
{'2019-09-20': 132, '2019-09-21': 104, . . . '2019-11-02': 116, '2019-11-03': 122, '2019-11-04': 178, '2019-11-05': 167, '2019-11-06': 173, '2019-11-07': 170, '2019-11-08': 196, '2019-11-09': 146, '2019-11-10': 141, '2019-11-11': 143, '2019-11-12': 180, '2019-11-13': 185, '2019-11-14': 217, '2019-11-15': 167, '2019-11-16': 157, '2019-11-17': 117, '2019-11-18': 175}