WikiTrafficTabulator

Introduction

A script to retrieve Wikipedia article traffic statistics from stats.grok.se and tabulate them.

Requirements

Requires Python 3. Non standard Python packages used:

• httplib2 (Install with sudo pip install httplib2 or sudo pip3 install httplib2)

Usage

Run the script with python3 run.py, providing following arguments:

• To specify the articles to tabulate
  • use -n to specify the name of one individual article, or
  • use -f to specify the name of a CSV file containing multiple names of all articles to fetch (same format as names.csv)
• To specify the year(s) to retrieve
  • use -y to specify one year
  • use -r to specify a range of years (-r 'yyyy, YYYY', where yyyy is the starting year, and YYYY the end year (both inclusive))
• Optionally, you can specify a language code with -l (e.g. de for german pages)

Wait for the script to complete

Find your results in the out folder

Every year has its own CSV file, where columns represent one article (e.g. Siemens(2017)), and rows represent one day of the year, with the corresponding view count.