--- /dev/null
+#!/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 (3) JSON and TSV.
+#
+###############################################################################
+
+
+import requests
+import argparse
+import json
+import csv
+import time
+import os.path
+import datetime
+#import feather
+
+
+
+def parse_args():
+
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Call the views API repeatedly.')
+ parser.add_argument('-o', '--output_folder', help='Where to save output', default="../data/", 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 (args.query_date):
+ queryDate = args.query_date
+ else:
+ yesterday = datetime.datetime.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
+ queryDate = yesterday.strftime("%Y%m%d")
+
+ queryDate = queryDate + "00" #requires specifying hours
+
+
+ articleList = []
+#1 Load up the list of article names
+
+ with open(articleFile, 'r') as infileHandle:
+ theInfile = csv.reader(infileHandle)
+ next(theInfile) #skip header
+ for currentLine in theInfile:
+ articleList.append(currentLine)
+
+ j_Out = outputPath + "dailyviews" + queryDate + ".json"
+ t_Out = outputPath + "dailyviews" + queryDate + ".tsv"
+
+ j = []
+
+ i = 0 #iterator to deal with end of file
+
+#2 Repeatedly call the API with that list of names
+
+ for a in articleList:
+ a = a[0] #destringify
+ 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 response.ok:
+ jd = json.loads(response.content)
+ j.append(jd["items"][0])
+ time.sleep(.1)
+
+#3 Save results as a JSON and TSV
+
+ #all data in j now, make json file
+ with open(j_Out, 'w') as j_outfile:
+ json.dump(j, j_outfile, indent=2)
+
+ with open(t_Out, 'w') as t_outfile:
+ dw = csv.DictWriter(t_outfile, sorted(j[0].keys()), delimiter='\t')
+ dw.writeheader()
+ dw.writerows(j)
+
+
+ f_Out = outputPath + "dailyviews" + queryDate + ".feather"
+ #read the json back in and make a feather file?
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+ main()