#!/usr/bin/env python3 ############################################################################### # # This script assumes the presence of the COVID-19 repo. # # It (1) reads in the article list and then (2) calls the Wikimedia API to # fetch view information for each article. Output is to a (3) TSV file. # # ############################################################################### #1 Load up the list of article names #2 Repeatedly call the API with that list of names #3 Save results as a TSV import requests import argparse import json import csv import time import os.path import datetime def parse_args(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Call the views API repeatedly.') parser.add_argument('-o', '--output_folder', help='Where to save output', default="", type=str) parser.add_argument('-i', '--article_file', help='File listing article names', default="../resources/articles.txt", type=str) parser.add_argument('-d', '--query_date', help='Date if not yesterday, in YYYYMMDD format please.', type=str) args = parser.parse_args() return(args) def main(): args = parse_args() outputPath = args.output_folder articleFile = args.article_file if (query_date): queryDate = args.query_date else: queryDate = datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%Y%m%d") with open(articleFile, 'r') as infileHandle: theInfile = csv.reader(infileHandle, quotechar='"') for currentLine in theInfile: articleList.append(currentLine["Article"]) with open(outputPath, 'w') as outfile: outfile.write("[") i = 0 #iterator to deal with end of file for a in articleList: i = i+1 url= "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/all-agents/" url= url + a + "/daily/" + queryDate + "/" + queryDate #for now, single date at a time response = requests.get(url) if raw_response.ok: with open(outputPath, 'a') as outfile: json.dump(json.loads(ident_response.content), outfile) if i < len(revList): outfile.write(",\n") else: #at end of file outfile.write("\n") time.sleep(1) with open(outputPath, 'a') as outfile: outfile.write("]") if __name__ == "__main__": main()