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Get data from the Wikimedia REST API
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wikirest

Lifecycle: experimental CRAN status R-CMD-check Codecov test coverage

The goal of wikirest is to get data from the Wikimedia REST API.

Installation

You can install the development version of wikirest from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("clessn/wikirest")

Example

library("wikirest")

get_most_viewed_per_country(
  country = "CA",
  access = "all-access",
  date = "2022-01-01",
  tidy = TRUE
) |>
  utils::head()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 9
#>   country access     year  month day   article          project views_ceil  rank
#>   <chr>   <chr>      <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>            <chr>        <int> <int>
#> 1 CA      all-access 2022  01    01    Main_Page        en.wik…     212200     1
#> 2 CA      all-access 2022  01    01    Betty_White      en.wik…     156900     2
#> 3 CA      all-access 2022  01    01    Special:Search   en.wik…      57900     3
#> 4 CA      all-access 2022  01    01    Journey_(band)   en.wik…      36300     4
#> 5 CA      all-access 2022  01    01    Wikipédia:Accue… fr.wik…      27900     5
#> 6 CA      all-access 2022  01    01    Arnel_Pineda     en.wik…      26000     6

Usage

For API documentation, terms of service and licensing information, see wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/.