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Get Page Views of a Wikipedia Page Using an API?

I'm trying to find an API that allows me to easily get the total number of views for a given wikipedia page. Does anyone know if something that does that exists for python ?

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Kolay.Ne
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Try using Pageview API. There are some examples there of how you should interact with the API via HTTP

To do this in python you could, for example, use the requests library. Simple example:

import requests

resp = requests.get('https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/all-agents/Albert_Einstein/daily/2015100100/2015103100')
data = resp.json()
print(data['items'][0]['views'])

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