Skip to content

Project metrics

This page includes examples of API requests for metrics about Wikimedia projects.

Aggregated views

Get the time series of numbers of monthly automated page views for all Wikimedia projects in 2023.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/aggregate/all-projects/all-access/automated/monthly/2023010100/2023123100" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Unique devices

Daily, Spanish Wikipedia

Get the time series of numbers of unique devices that visited Spanish Wikipedia in February 2021.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/es.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20210201/20210228" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Monthly, all Wikipedias

Get the time series of numbers of unique devices that visited all Wikipedias in the first three months of 2020.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/all-wikipedia-projects/all-sites/monthly/20200101/20200331" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Editors

Get the time series of numbers of editors who edited entries in Polish Wiktionary between 5 and 24 times in the months between January and August 2021.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/editors/aggregate/pl.wiktionary.org/all-editor-types/all-page-types/5..24-edits/monthly/20210101/20210901" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Most-viewed pages

Get the list of top 1000 most-viewed articles on English Wikipedia in March 2023.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/en.wikipedia.org/all-access/2023/03/all-days" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

New pages

Get the time series of numbers of non-content pages created by all editor types on Spanish Wikipedia between January 10 and January 30, 2020.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edited-pages/new/es.wikipedia.org/all-editor-types/non-content/daily/20200110/20200130" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Most-edited pages

Get the list of top 100 content pages with the most edits on Russian Wikipedia in January 2019.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edited-pages/top-by-edits/ru.wikipedia.org/all-editor-types/content/2019/01/all-days" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Files

Most-requested files

Get the list of most-requested media files in September 2023.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/mediarequests/top/all-referers/all-media-types/2023/09/all-days" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY

Numbers of file requests

Get the time series of numbers of media file requests in every month of 2022.

sh
curl -X GET \
"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/mediarequests/aggregate/all-referers/all-media-types/all-agents/monthly/20220101/20230101" \
 -H "accept: application/json"
TRY