Top viewed pages

Lists the 1000 most viewed pages for a given project and timespan (month or day).

wx_top_viewed_pages(
  project,
  access_method = c("all", "desktop", "mobile web", "mobile app"),
  granularity = c("daily", "monthly"),
  start_date = "20191101",
  end_date = "20191231"
)

Arguments

project	The name of any Wikimedia project formatted like {language code}.{project name}, for example en.wikipedia. You may pass en.wikipedia.org and the .org will be stripped off. For projects like Wikimedia Commons (without language codes), use commons.wikimedia. For projects like www.mediawiki.org, you can use that full string, or just use mediawiki or mediawiki.org.
access_method	If you want to filter by access method, use one of: "desktop", "mobile app", or "mobile web". If you are interested in pageviews regardless of access method, use "all" (default).
granularity	The time unit for the response data. As of today, supported values are daily (default) and monthly.
start_date	The date of the first day to include, in YYYYMMDD format. Can also be a Date or a POSIXt object, which will be auto-formatted.
end_date	The date of the last day to include, in YYYYMMDD format. Can also be a Date or a POSIXt object, which will be auto-formatted.

Value

A tibble data frame with the following columns:

date

Date; beginning of each month if granularity = "monthly"

project

project

page_name

page name; NOTE: in wikitext, the first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized

views

number of page-views (see meta:Research:Page view for more information on what is considered a page-view)

rank

views-based ranking

License

Data retrieved from the API endpoint is available under the CC0 1.0 license.

See also

Other traffic data & metrics: wx_page_views(), wx_project_views(), wx_unique_devices()

Examples

wx_top_viewed_pages("en.wikipedia")
#> # A tibble: 60,997 x 5
#>    date       project      page_name                views  rank
#>    <date>     <chr>        <chr>                    <int> <int>
#>  1 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Main Page             14602260     1
#>  2 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Special:Search         1498770     2
#>  3 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Henry V of England      240350     3
#>  4 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Halloween               236076     4
#>  5 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Solar System            177408     5
#>  6 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Terminator: Dark Fate   176920     6
#>  7 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Jimmy Garoppolo         155807     7
#>  8 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Crown Jewel (2019)      153559     8
#>  9 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Bible                   145717     9
#> 10 2019-11-01 en.wikipedia Joker (2019 film)       136562    10
#> # … with 60,987 more rows