--- /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 sys
+import subprocess
+import requests
+import argparse
+import json
+import time
+import os.path
+import argparse
+import datetime
+import logging
+from csv import DictWriter
+#import feather #TBD
+
+def parse_args():
+
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Call the views API to collect Wikipedia view data.')
+ parser.add_argument('-o', '--output_folder', help='Where to save output', default="wikipedia/data", type=str)
+ parser.add_argument('-i', '--article_file', help='File listing article names', default="wikipedia/resources/enwp_wikiproject_covid19_articles.txt", type=str)
+ parser.add_argument('-d', '--query_date', help='Date if not yesterday, in YYYYMMDD format.', type=str)
+ parser.add_argument('-L', '--logging_level', help='Logging level. Options are debug, info, warning, error, critical. Default: info.', default='info', type=str),
+ parser.add_argument('-W', '--logging_destination', help='Logging destination file. (default: standard error)', type=str),
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+ return(args)
+
+def main():
+
+ args = parse_args()
+
+ outputPath = args.output_folder
+ articleFile = args.article_file
+
+ #handle -d
+ 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
+
+ #handle -L
+ loglevel_mapping = { 'debug' : logging.DEBUG,
+ 'info' : logging.INFO,
+ 'warning' : logging.WARNING,
+ 'error' : logging.ERROR,
+ 'critical' : logging.CRITICAL }
+
+ if args.logging_level in loglevel_mapping:
+ loglevel = loglevel_mapping[args.logging_level]
+ else:
+ print("Choose a valid log level: debug, info, warning, error, or critical")
+ exit
+
+ #handle -W
+ if args.logging_destination:
+ logging.basicConfig(filename=args.logging_destination, filemode='a', level=loglevel)
+ else:
+ logging.basicConfig(level=loglevel)
+
+ export_git_hash = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD']).decode().strip()
+ export_git_short_hash = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD']).decode().strip()
+ export_time = str(datetime.datetime.now())
+
+ logging.info(f"Starting run at {export_time}")
+ logging.info(f"Last commit: {export_git_hash}")
+
+ #1 Load up the list of article names
+ j_outfilename = os.path.join(outputPath, f"digobs_covid19-wikipedia-enwiki_dailyviews-{queryDate}.json")
+ t_outfilename = os.path.join(outputPath, f"digobs_covid19-wikipedia-enwiki_dailyviews-{queryDate}.tsv")
+
+ with open(articleFile, 'r') as infile:
+ articleList = list(infile)
+
+ success = 0 #for logging how many work/fail
+ failure = 0
+
+ #3 Save results as a JSON and TSV
+ with open(j_outfilename, 'w') as j_outfile, \
+ open(t_outfilename, 'w') as t_outfile:
+
+ #2 Repeatedly call the API with that list of names
+ for a in articleList:
+ a = a.strip("\"\n") #destringify
+ url= f"https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/all-agents/{a}/daily/{queryDate}/{queryDate}"
+
+ response = requests.get(url)
+ if response.ok:
+ jd = response.json()["items"][0]
+ success = success + 1
+ else:
+ failure = failure + 1
+ logging.warning(f"Failure: {response.status_code} from {url}")
+
+ # start writing the CSV File if it doesn't exist yet
+ try:
+ dw
+ except NameError:
+ dw = DictWriter(t_outfile, sorted(jd.keys()), delimiter='\t')
+ dw.writeheader()
+
+ logging.debug(f"printing data: {jd}")
+
+ # write out the line of the json file
+ print(json.dumps(jd), file=j_outfile)
+
+ # write out of the csv file
+ dw.writerow(jd)
+
+ # f_Out = outputPath + "dailyviews" + queryDate + ".feather"
+ # read the json back in and make a feather file?
+ logging.debug(f"Run complete at {datetime.datetime.now()}")
+ logging.info(f"Processed {success} successful URLs and {failure} failures.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+ main()