Wikipedia Pageviews - Daily Top Articles & Trends
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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.
Navigation pages are filtered
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
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
date | The day the views were counted |
rank | Wikimedia's rank for that day (top mode) |
article | Readable title |
articleRaw | Raw title, for linking and joins |
views | View count |
project | Which language edition |
access | All devices, desktop, mobile web or mobile app |
agent | Humans only, everything, or bots |
url | Link 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.