Wikipedia Pageviews Tracker

Wikipedia Pageviews Tracker retrieves daily or monthly pageview counts for any Wikipedia article or surfaces the top-viewed pages for any date range — using the Wikimedia REST API. Monitor public interest trends for people, companies, events, products, and technologies across all 60+ Wikipedia language editions. No API key required.

Wikipedia pageviews are a high-quality proxy for real-world public interest. Unlike social media metrics, they're unaffected by bots, advertising, or algorithmic amplification — they reflect genuine information-seeking behavior.

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Why use Wikipedia Pageviews Tracker?

1. Real-world interest measurement — Track how public interest in a company, person, or topic changes over time. A CEO's Wikipedia page spiking often precedes news coverage, not follows it.
2. Event impact measurement — Compare pageviews before, during, and after a product launch, earnings release, or PR crisis to quantify attention impact.
3. Trend discovery — Pull the top-100 most-viewed pages for any day to discover what the world is paying attention to — without social media noise.
4. Brand monitoring — Track pageviews for your company, competitors, and key executives. A sudden spike often signals news coverage before it appears in media databases.
5. Research and journalism — Measure public awareness of scientific topics, diseases, political figures, or historical events with reliable, unbiased data.

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How to use

1. Open the actor on Apify Store and click Try for free.
2. Choose mode: article for specific article pageviews, or top for daily top-viewed pages.
3. In article mode, paste article titles (exact Wikipedia page title format, underscores for spaces).
4. Set startDate and endDate for your date range.
5. Click Start. Returns daily pageview records per article or daily top-article lists.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"article"	article (specific articles) or top (top-viewed pages per day)
articles	string[]	["Python_(programming_language)","ChatGPT"]	Article titles to track (use Wikipedia URL format with underscores)
project	string	"en.wikipedia"	Wikipedia language edition ("en.wikipedia", "de.wikipedia", "ja.wikipedia")
startDate	string	"2026-08-01"	Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format
endDate	string	"2026-08-31"	End date in YYYY-MM-DD format
topCount	integer	50	Number of top articles per day in top mode (max 1000)

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Output

Article mode:

{
  "article": "ChatGPT",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "date": "2026-08-15",
  "views": 187420
}

Top mode:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "article": "Main_Page",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "date": "2026-08-15",
  "views": 18234012
}

{
  "rank": 7,
  "article": "Kamala_Harris",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "date": "2026-08-15",
  "views": 892341
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
article	string	Wikipedia article title (underscored)
project	string	Wikipedia language edition
date	string	Date of pageview count (YYYY-MM-DD)
views	integer	Number of pageviews on that date
rank	integer	Daily rank (top mode only)

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Cost estimation

Pay-Per-Event: $0.005 per actor start + $0.001 per pageview record returned.

Use case	Records	Estimated cost
5 articles × 30 days	150	~$0.15/run
Daily top-100 for 7 days	700	~$0.70/run
10 articles × 365 days	3650	~$3.65/run
Daily top-50 monitoring	50/day	~$0.05/day

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FAQ

How do I find the correct article title format? Use the Wikipedia URL slug: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI → article title is OpenAI. For titles with spaces, use underscores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence → Artificial_intelligence. Special characters in the URL are URL-encoded; the actor handles decoding automatically.

Does it support non-English Wikipedia? Yes — set project to any Wikimedia project: "de.wikipedia" (German), "ja.wikipedia" (Japanese), "fr.wikipedia" (French), "zh.wikipedia" (Chinese), etc. The same article may have different views in different language editions.

How far back does the data go? The Wikimedia Pageviews API has data from July 1, 2015 onward. Daily granularity is available for the entire period.

Are bots included in the view count? The actor uses the user access type by default, which excludes known bot traffic. Total views including all traffic can be significantly higher.

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Keywords: Wikipedia pageviews tracker, Wikimedia REST API, Wikipedia traffic data, article popularity tracker, Wikipedia trending topics, public interest measurement, Wikipedia view count, top viewed Wikipedia pages, Wikipedia analytics, multilingual Wikipedia stats, page traffic monitoring, Wikipedia engagement metrics, topic popularity tracker, no API key required