Wikipedia pageviews API

Daily Wikipedia view counts for an article over a date range (Wikimedia REST API), with total and daily average — a topic-popularity / attention signal. Answers 'how many views does X get', 'is interest in Y rising', 'Wikipedia traffic for Z over time'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/wiki-pageviews

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/wiki-pageviews

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "article": "Ethereum",
  "start": "2025-01-01",
  "end": "2025-01-07"
}

Example response

{
  "article": "Ethereum",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "start": "2025-01-01",
  "end": "2025-01-07",
  "totalViews": 15400,
  "dayCount": 7,
  "dailyAverage": 2200,
  "daily": [
    {
      "date": "2025-01-01",
      "views": 2196
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "article",
    "start",
    "end"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "article": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Ethereum"
      ]
    },
    "start": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "2025-01-01"
      ]
    },
    "end": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "2025-01-31"
      ]
    },
    "project": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "en.wikipedia"
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}