I don't need, nor want, access to any data about unique readers/viewers.
Is there a way of sanitizing the data? There is public data about pageviews
so it seems to me that there should also be public data about media
playback.
Alternatively, is there a way that I can file a request with someone who
has the correct permissions to ask them to run the appropriate query?
The task Madhu pointed to is something we hope to get to soon, but we may
find that we don't have enough hardware to host the extra data on the API.
Are the dumps a bad solution for this problem, though? They're not too big
in this case and not to hard to parse through for the small time period
you're talking about. The format is pretty simple too, I think you should
be able to download and do everything you need with grep and awk. Or
python if that's easier.