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Wikipedia Pageviews - Daily Top Articles & Trends

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Wikipedia Pageviews - Daily Top Articles & Trends

Wikipedia Pageviews - Daily Top Articles & Trends

What the world is actually reading. Daily top-viewed Wikipedia articles for any language edition, or the view history of specific articles. Reads Wikimedia's official metrics API, so the numbers come from the source.

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Wikipedia Pageviews

What the world is actually reading, day by day.

Two modes:

  • Daily top articles - the most-viewed articles in any Wikipedia edition, for each day in a date range
  • History of specific articles - the daily view count of articles you name, so you can watch attention rise and fall

The numbers come from Wikimedia's own metrics API, not from a scraped page.

The raw ranking is topped by the main page and the search page in every language. Those are navigation, not reading. They are removed by default.

Ranks are Wikimedia's own numbering, kept as-is for traceability, so after filtering you will see gaps such as 2, 3, 5. That is the source rank preserved, not missing data. Turn the filter off to see the unfiltered list.

What you get

FieldDescription
dateThe day the views were counted
rankWikimedia's rank for that day (top mode)
articleReadable title
articleRawRaw title, for linking and joins
viewsView count
projectWhich language edition
accessAll devices, desktop, mobile web or mobile app
agentHumans only, everything, or bots
urlLink to the article

Example input

{
"projects": ["ko.wikipedia", "en.wikipedia"],
"mode": "top",
"startDate": "2026-08-01",
"endDate": "2026-08-11",
"maxArticlesPerDay": 100
}

Watching specific subjects instead:

{
"projects": ["en.wikipedia"],
"mode": "per-article",
"articles": ["Artificial intelligence", "Seoul"],
"startDate": "2026-07-01",
"endDate": "2026-08-11",
"agent": "user"
}

What people use it for

  • Trend and attention research - what a country was reading on a given day
  • Cross-language comparison - the same subject in ko, en and ja side by side
  • Event impact - what a launch, a film or a news story did to page traffic
  • Content planning - subjects with rising attention before they peak

Pricing

Pay per result. You are charged only for rows actually returned.

Notes

  • Wikimedia publishes with a short lag, so the default end date is yesterday.
  • Days with no published data are reported and skipped rather than failing the run.
  • Data is published by the Wikimedia Foundation under CC BY-SA.