Feeds and metrics

The featured feed

Wikipedia curates a daily feed: today's featured article, the most-read pages, the picture of the day, in-the-news stories, and on-this-day highlights.

wiki featured                 # today
wiki featured 2020-07-20      # a specific date
wiki featured -o jsonl        # the whole feed as structured data

On this day

Historical events for a calendar day, across all years:

wiki onthisday                       # today
wiki onthisday 07-20                 # July 20
wiki onthisday 07-20 --type births   # births only
wiki onthisday --type deaths -o jsonl

The --type slices are all, selected, births, deaths, holidays, and events.

Most-viewed articles

The top articles for a day or a whole month. It defaults to yesterday, the most recent complete day:

wiki top                       # yesterday
wiki top 2024-01-01 -n 25      # a specific day
wiki top 2024-01 -o jsonl      # a whole month

Pageviews over time

A daily or monthly time series for one article. Defaults to the last 30 days:

wiki pageviews "Alan Turing"
wiki pageviews "Pi" --from 2024-01-01 --to 2024-03-31 --granularity monthly
wiki pageviews "Cat" --days 90 -o csv

Filter by access method or agent type when you need to:

wiki pageviews "Wikipedia" --access mobile-web --agent user

CSV output drops straight into a spreadsheet or a plotting script:

wiki pageviews "ChatGPT" --days 180 -o csv > views.csv