Hi Chris,
On 21 February 2012 02:00, Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy(a)appropedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Is there a way to get a bot to list pageviews for all
pages in a category?
I found mentions of self.counter has to do with pageviews, but I can't find
a script that uses it.
I cannot find any reference to a counter that has to do with pageviews in
the
framework; they seem all related to counting something else (e.g. the
number of categories, or the number of edits).
The API does expose a 'counter' item, however:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties
I was asked: "Do you have a bot that can report the page view counts for
You can call the API directly from the framework, for example:
>> import wikipedia
>> site = wikipedia.getSite('en', 'appropedia')
>> p = wikipedia.Page(site,
'Category:JMC330_International_Mass_Communication')
>> import query
>> query.GetData({'action': 'query', 'prop': 'info',
'titles': p.title()},
site)['query']['pages'].values()[0]['counter']
4230
Hope this helps.
Best,
Merlijn