On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello together,
in the framework of a GLAM project, we are looking for ways to (1) identify the number of pages in a given category - including via subcategories - on a given wiki
You can get the list of subcategories of a category with list=categorymembers&cmtype=subcat. You'd have to make calls to this for each individual (sub)category you're interested in, and be sure to detect cycles properly.
You can get the number of pages in a category with prop=categoryinfo. You can batch this by specifying up to 50 titles per query (500 if your account has the "apihighlimits" userright).
If you're going to be doing a lot of this, it might be better to perform queries directly against the database, either by downloading the database dumps or using Tool Labs.
(2) get the pageview stats for all these pages, including on aggregate
The raw pageview stat data may also be available on Tool Labs. I see some data in /shared/viewstats/, but it doesn't seem to be up to date.