Hi folks,
I am conducting a project on the value of using celebrity names in newspaper headlines. I
am seeking your help to see if it is possible to get historical page view data for
biographies between he years 2013 to 2015. I’ve been experimenting with this legacy API
that looked promising:
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Pageviews%20data/get_metrics_pageviews_…
<https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Pageviews
data/get_metrics_pageviews_per_article__project___access___agent___article___granularity___start___end_>
However, I receive the error “the date(s) you used are valid, but we either do not have
data for those date(s), or the project you asked for is not loaded yet” whenever I execute
a search for a biography for dates preceding summer 2015. I get the same message for
searching for something like “Brad Pitt” as for “Isaac Newton.” Does anyone know of any
way to get this page view information? I would be very grateful, and do let me know if you
need more information from me.
Thank you,
Marianne
(Cornell Phd Student in Information Science)