Wikipedia Pageviews: daily and monthly views per article

$1 per 1,000 rows. Platform usage included. No rental, no minimum.

Read page view counts from the official Wikimedia pageviews API. Give a list of article titles (or article links) and get one row per article and day, or one row per article and month. Or switch to the most viewed articles of a day or month, ranked. It works for any language edition (en.wikipedia, de.wikipedia, fr.wikipedia and so on) and for Wikimedia Commons, and you can count all visits or only desktop, mobile web or the mobile app. No API key and no account with Wikimedia.

Open it in Apify Console

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What it costs

Rows	This actor
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00
100,000	$100.00

Plus $0.001 per run. One flat price, platform usage included, so there is no separate compute or proxy bill. One row is one article on one day (or one month), or one ranked article in the most viewed list. A run returns at most 10,000 rows. A daily check of yesterday's views for 50 articles is 50 rows, about $0.051 a run, or about $1.53 a month. A year of daily views for one article is 365 rows, about $0.37.

Why use it

• Official numbers, no key. The rows come straight from the Wikimedia pageviews API. Nothing to sign up for on the Wikimedia side.
• Titles or links, any language. Paste Alan Turing, or https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel. A link sets the language edition for that line, so one list can mix editions.
• Daily or monthly, by device. Count everything, or only desktop, mobile web or the mobile app. The default counts people only. Crawlers and automated traffic can be counted separately.
• A ranked top list too. One switch gives the most viewed articles of a day or month, with the main page, search pages and other non article pages left out by default.
• Safe for scheduled jobs. A title that does not exist ends cleanly with zero rows and a line in the log that names it. A wrong date ends with a short message, not a crash.

Quick start

1. Open the actor, keep the example values, press Start.
2. Or paste this input, which returns 30 days of daily views for three articles (90 rows):

{
  "mode": "article-views",
  "articles": ["Albert Einstein", "Marie Curie", "Alan Turing"],
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "granularity": "daily",
  "days": 30,
  "maxItems": 100
}

3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

For the 50 most viewed English articles of yesterday, use { "mode": "top-articles", "maxItems": 50 }.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/one_dollar_store~wikipedia-pageviews-stats/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "article-views", "articles": ["Albert Einstein", "Marie Curie"], "days": 30, "maxItems": 100}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("one_dollar_store/wikipedia-pageviews-stats").call(
    run_input={"mode": "article-views", "articles": ["Albert Einstein", "Marie Curie"], "days": 30, "maxItems": 100}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["date"], item["title"], item["views"])

Use it from an AI assistant

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants can call this actor through Apify's MCP server. Add it with this server address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=one_dollar_store/wikipedia-pageviews-stats

Then ask, for example: "How many people viewed the English Wikipedia articles on Albert Einstein and Marie Curie each day over the last 30 days?" or "What were the 20 most viewed English Wikipedia articles yesterday?"

Switching from another Wikipedia pageviews actor

Articles go in articles, as titles or full links, one per line. The edition is project (for example en.wikipedia). The period is days, or startDate and endDate as YYYY-MM-DD. Day or month rows are granularity. Device is access, and visitor type is agent. The core output fields are project, article, date, views, access and agent. The most viewed list adds rank. One row is one article on one day or month.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
mode	choice	article-views	article-views reads the articles you list. top-articles reads the most viewed articles of one day or month.
articles	list of text	none	Titles or full links, one per line. Needed for article-views.
project	text	en.wikipedia	Language edition and site, for example de.wikipedia, fr.wikipedia, es.wikipedia or commons.wikimedia. A pasted link overrides this for its own line.
granularity	choice	daily	One row per day, or one row per calendar month.
days	number	30	How many days back, counted from the end date. Ignored when a start date is set. From 1 to 3,650.
startDate	text	none	First day to include, YYYY-MM-DD. Earliest possible day is 2015-07-01.
endDate	text	yesterday	Last day to include, YYYY-MM-DD (UTC). For the top list this is the day or month to read.
access	choice	all-access	all-access, desktop, mobile-web or mobile-app.
agent	choice	user	user (people), all-agents, spider or automated. Used for article views.
articlesOnly	true or false	true	Top list only: leave out the main page, search pages and pages in other namespaces such as Special: or Wikipedia:.
maxItems	number	100	Most rows in the run. Minimum 10, maximum 10,000.

Rows are articles times days. Three articles for 30 days is 90 rows. If the total is above maxItems, the last articles in your list may be cut off, and the log says which.

Output fields

Field	Meaning
project	The site the views belong to, for example en.wikipedia.
article	Article title as Wikimedia stores it, with underscores, for example Albert_Einstein.
title	The same title with spaces.
date	The day (YYYY-MM-DD), or the first day of the month for monthly rows.
granularity	daily or monthly.
access	The device filter used: all-access, desktop, mobile-web or mobile-app.
agent	user, all-agents, spider or automated. Not set on top list rows, which count people.
views	Page views for that day or month.
rank	Position in the most viewed list. Only on top list rows.
partialMonth	Monthly rows only. True when the month has not ended yet, so the total covers part of the month.
url	Link to the article on that Wikipedia edition.

Fields that do not apply to a row are left out of it.

Sample results

Real rows from test runs on 20 October 2026: daily views of two articles, two rows of the most viewed list, and a monthly row for the month that was still running (partialMonth is true).

[
  {"project": "en.wikipedia", "article": "Albert_Einstein", "title": "Albert Einstein", "date": "2026-09-20", "granularity": "daily", "access": "all-access", "agent": "user", "views": 10582, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"},
  {"project": "en.wikipedia", "article": "Albert_Einstein", "title": "Albert Einstein", "date": "2026-09-21", "granularity": "daily", "access": "all-access", "agent": "user", "views": 10815, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"},
  {"project": "en.wikipedia", "article": "Marie_Curie", "title": "Marie Curie", "date": "2026-09-20", "granularity": "daily", "access": "all-access", "agent": "user", "views": 4773, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie"},
  {"project": "en.wikipedia", "article": "Jailer_2", "title": "Jailer 2", "date": "2026-10-19", "granularity": "daily", "access": "all-access", "rank": 4, "views": 321853, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailer_2"},
  {"project": "en.wikipedia", "article": "Elizabeth_Holmes", "title": "Elizabeth Holmes", "date": "2026-10-19", "granularity": "daily", "access": "all-access", "rank": 5, "views": 301284, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes"},
  {"partialMonth": true, "project": "de.wikipedia", "article": "Angela_Merkel", "title": "Angela Merkel", "date": "2026-10-01", "granularity": "monthly", "access": "mobile-web", "agent": "user", "views": 948, "url": "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel"}
]

Limits

• 10,000 rows per run. For more, run again with a shorter date range or fewer articles.
• Data runs from 1 July 2015 to yesterday (UTC). That is the range the Wikimedia API holds. Dates outside it are moved to the nearest end.
• Rate limit. Wikimedia asks clients without a login to stay under 5 requests per second. The actor sends one request at a time, at most four per second, with a User-Agent that names the actor and its Apify page, and it tries a failed request up to three times with a pause between tries.
• One request per article. The whole period for one article comes back in one request, so a list of several hundred articles takes a few minutes because of the pacing. The default run timeout is 10 minutes, so raise it for very long lists.
• Whole months only for monthly rows. The start and end dates are rounded to their calendar months. The month that is still running is a partial total, and its row carries partialMonth: true.
• Days without views have no row. The API leaves out days with no data, so a very small article can have fewer rows than days.
• Titles must match. Use the title as it appears in the article's address. A title that does not exist, or that has no views in the period, gives no rows, and the run log names it.
• Most viewed list. The API lists at most 1,000 articles for a day or month. With articlesOnly on, pages such as the main page and search pages are dropped, and ranks keep their original numbers, so the first row can be rank 4.
• Device and visitor type are Wikimedia's classification. The user group is the visits Wikimedia classifies as people. Crawlers and automated traffic are counted in the other groups.

FAQ

How much does it cost to collect 10,000 rows? $10, plus $0.001 for each run.

Do I pay for compute or proxy on top? No. Platform usage is included in the $1 per 1,000 price. No proxy is used.

Do I need an API key or a Wikimedia account? No. The actor reads the public Wikimedia pageviews API.

How do I get views for another language edition? Set project, for example de.wikipedia or fr.wikipedia, or paste article links. A link brings its own language edition, so you can mix several editions in one list.

How do I get one number per month? Set granularity to monthly. You get one row per article and calendar month.

How current is the data? The actor reads the API at the moment you run it and ends at yesterday (UTC). Today's views are not available yet.

Is it legal? The actor reads statistics that Wikimedia publishes openly. The Wikimedia API access policy states that the data is available under the CC0 1.0 license. The actor sends a User-Agent that names itself and stays under the request rate Wikimedia asks for. How you use the data is up to you: follow Wikimedia's policies and the law where you live.

Is this an official Wikimedia or Wikipedia product? No. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Do I need an Apify account? Yes. Actors run from an Apify account, and a free account is enough to start: it includes $5 of platform usage every month. You can sign up here. This is a referral link and it costs you nothing.

Is there a limit on the free plan? Yes. A run started from a free plan account delivers the first 10 results, then ends with a message and a link to the plans. Any paid plan returns everything you ask for, up to your own limit. The price per result is the same on every plan.

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Changelog

• October 2026: first release.