From: Kaylea Champion Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:00:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: for testing X-Git-Url: https://code.communitydata.science/covid19.git/commitdiff_plain/ec3f66bbcc789dcc29e2ea860adf32bed26dafa0?ds=inline for testing --- diff --git a/bin/fetch_daily_views.py b/bin/fetch_daily_views.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e8cb5a --- /dev/null +++ b/bin/fetch_daily_views.py @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +#!/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()