-#!/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()