Top-viewed Wikipedia articles for a day API

Fetch the most-viewed Wikipedia articles for a given date and project (e.g. en.wikipedia) via the keyless Wikimedia REST API, returning a ranked leaderboard with view counts, canonical links and each article's share of the top-N views. Distinct from data-wiki-pageviews (one article's time series) — this is the daily leaderboard. The MORE: filter pseudo-pages (Main_Page, Special:, Portal:), decode underscored titles, re-rank, and compute each entry's share of total views. Answers 'what is trending on Wikipedia', 'most-read articles on 2026-06-01', 'top pages on German Wikipedia', 'what were people reading about'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/wikipedia-trending

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

datawikipediatrendingpageviewswikimediatoppopularleaderboard

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/wikipedia-trending

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "date": "2026-06-01",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "limit": 3
}

Example response

{
  "date": "2026-06-01",
  "project": "en.wikipedia",
  "totalViews": 1250000,
  "count": 3,
  "articles": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "title": "Albert Einstein",
      "views": 540000,
      "shareOfTopPct": 43.2,
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "2026-06-01"
      ]
    },
    "project": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "en.wikipedia"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        25
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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