Wikipedia Trends: pageviews, growth and top articles

An open-data way to track public attention to topics. Note: Wikipedia pageviews measure reading of Wikipedia articles, not Google search interest, so treat it as a related signal, not a Google Trends replacement. It reads the official Wikimedia Pageviews API (open data, no scraping, no login) and returns, for each Wikipedia article you list, the daily or monthly pageview history plus ready-made statistics: total, average, peak day and the percentage change between the first and the second half of the period. A second mode returns the most viewed articles of any day or month.

Wikipedia attention is a good proxy for public interest in a person, company, product, technology, disease or event, and it works in every language edition.

What you get

Mode articles (one row per article, charged as article-trend):

{
  "article": "ChatGPT",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "granularity": "daily",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT",
  "from": "2026-09-18",
  "to": "2026-10-17",
  "totalViews": 1234567,
  "avgViews": 41152.2,
  "peakDate": "2026-10-02",
  "peakViews": 60211,
  "changePct": 4.8,
  "series": [{"date": "2026-09-18", "views": 39000}, "..."]
}

Mode top (one row per article, charged as top-article): rank and views of the most viewed articles for a day (granularity: daily) or a month (granularity: monthly). Meta pages such as Main Page and Special pages are removed.

Input examples

Compare three topics over the last 30 days:

{"articles": ["Bitcoin", "Ethereum", "Solana"]}

Monthly history for a full year, any language:

{"articles": ["https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektroauto"], "granularity": "monthly",
 "startDate": "2025-10-01", "endDate": "2026-09-30"}

Top 100 articles of a day:

{"mode": "top", "startDate": "2026-10-15", "maxTop": 100}

Options

• project: language edition such as en.wikipedia, de.wikipedia. A full article URL overrides it.
• access: all-access, desktop, mobile-web, mobile-app.
• agent: user (default, excludes spiders and automated traffic), all-agents, spider, automated.
• includeSeries: set to false to get only the summary statistics.
• Data starts in July 2015 and lags by one to three days (top mode falls back to the latest published day if you give no date).

Pricing (pay per event)

• article-trend: 0.004 USD per article returned.
• top-article: 0.0005 USD per top-list entry returned.

Notes

Data comes from wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews under Wikimedia's open data terms, requested politely with an identifying User-Agent and a short delay between requests. Articles with no data in the range (typo, page did not exist yet) are skipped with a log warning and are not charged. The data counts page requests, not unique people.