# 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.
+# fetch view information for each article. Output is to a (3) JSON, TSV, and
+# Feather file.
#
#
###############################################################################
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('-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()
outputPath = args.output_folder
articleFile = args.article_file
- if (query_date):
+
+ if (args.query_date):
queryDate = args.query_date
else:
- queryDate = datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%Y%m%d")
+ yesterday = datetime.datetime.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
+ queryDate = yesterday.strftime("%Y%m%d")
+
+ queryDate = queryDate + "00" #requires specifying hours
+ articleList = []
with open(articleFile, 'r') as infileHandle:
- theInfile = csv.reader(infileHandle, quotechar='"')
+ #theInfile = csv.reader(infileHandle, quotechar='"')
+ theInfile = csv.reader(infileHandle)
+ next(theInfile) #skip header
for currentLine in theInfile:
- articleList.append(currentLine["Article"])
+ articleList.append(currentLine)
- with open(outputPath, 'w') as outfile:
+ j_Out = outputPath + "dailyviews" + queryDate + ".json"
+ with open(j_Out, 'w') as outfile:
outfile.write("[")
i = 0 #iterator to deal with end of file
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 raw_response.ok:
- with open(outputPath, 'a') as outfile:
- json.dump(json.loads(ident_response.content), outfile)
- if i < len(revList):
- outfile.write(",\n")
+ if response.ok:
+
+ #do json entry
+ j=json.loads(response.content)
+ with open(j_Out, 'a') as j_outfile:
+ json.dump(j, j_outfile)
+ if i < len(articleList):
+ j_outfile.write(",\n")
else: #at end of file
- outfile.write("\n")
+ j_outfile.write("\n")
+
+ #do tsv entry
+ #with open(outputPath + "dailyviews" + queryDate + ".tsv", 'a') as t_outfile:
+ # dw = csv.DictWriter(t_outfile, sorted(j[0].keys()), delimiter='\t')
+ # if i==1:
+ # dw.writeheader()
+ # dw.writerows(j)
- time.sleep(1)
+ time.sleep(.1)
+ with open(j_Out, 'a') as j_outfile:
+ j_outfile.write("]")
- with open(outputPath, 'a') as outfile:
- outfile.write("]")
+ #read the json back in and make a feather file?