Hi, When I tested the api it seemed to work with redirects (e.g. https://mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=pageviews&titles=MediaWiki%7CMain_Page&pvipmetric=pageviews&pvipdays=60&pvipcontinue= Where Main_Page redirects to the page MediaWiki )
> Then we attempted to use the redirects of a page and using the old page ids to grab the pageview data Just to be clear, when a page is moved, it keeps its page_id. So redirects may have historically had the page_id that the target page has now. If all else fails, you can look at the big dataset files at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/analytics/ . They should be available (in some form or another) going back to 2007, and I believe they are the source of the data that the api and all other tools return. -- Brian On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:17 AM James Gardner via Wikitech-l < wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are a group of undergraduates working on a project using the MediaWiki > API. While working on this project, we ran into a unique issue involving > pageviews. When trying to pull pageview data for a particular page, the > redirects of a page would not be counted along with the original pageviews. > For example, the Hong Kong protests page only has direct views, and not > views from previous titles. > > We attempted to use the wmflabs.org tool, but it only shows data from a > certain date. (Example link: > > https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests|China > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests%7CChina> > < > https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests%7CChina > > > ) > > Then we attempted to use the redirects of a page and using the old page ids > to grab the pageview data, but there was no data returned. When we > attempted to grab data for a page that we knew would have a long past, but > the parameter of "pvipcontinue" did not appear ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageviews > ). > (Example: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=pageviews&titles=MediaWiki&pvipmetric=pageviews&pvipdays=60&pvipcontinue= > ) > > In the end, we are trying to get an accurate count of view for a certain > page no matter the source. > > Any guidance or assistance is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jackie, James, Junyi, Kirby > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
