Hello there,

I'm a beginner programmer and am working on a project using Wikipedia views, trying to reproduce a paper. I was pulling json from http://stats.grok.se but the last month isn't updated.  I'm trying to get the last 30 days of wikipedia views for several pages, but the hourly files are 70mb compressed. Is it possible for me to query the specific data directly through some kind of Wikipedia database directly?

Otherwise in regards to the files (located at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2016/2016-01/), should they be  opened/accessed in some way? I'm using a high level language so working with these things sounds like it will break my computer.

Like I said, I'm fairly new to this all so I apologize in advance if these questions seem silly.

Thank you for any help,

Dominic Della Sera