pageviews (version 0.6.0)

old_pageviews: Retrieve Legacy Pageview Counts

Description

This retrieves per-project pageview counts from January 2008 to July 2016. These counts are calculated using the 'legacy' (read: old) model, which overcounts due to its inclusion of web-crawlers and similar automata.

Usage

old_pageviews(
  project = "en.wikipedia",
  platform = "all",
  granularity = "daily",
  start = "2013100100",
  end = "2015100100",
  reformat = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

project

the name of the project, structured as [language_code].[project] (see the default).

platform

The platform the pageviews came from; one or more of "all", "desktop" or "mobile". Set to "all" by default.

granularity

the granularity of data to return; do you want hourly, daily or monthly counts? Set to "daily" by default.

start

the start YYYYMMDDHH of the range you want to cover. This can be easily grabbed from R date/time objects using pageview_timestamps

end

the end YYYYMMDDHH of the range you want to cover. NULL by default, meaning that it returns 1 day/hour of data (depending on the value passed to granularity).

reformat

Whether to reformat the results as a data.frame or not. TRUE by default.

...

further arguments to pass to httr's GET.

See Also

top_articles for the top articles per project in a given date range, project_pageviews for per-project pageviews under the new definition, and article_pageviews for per-article pageviews.

Examples

# Basic call
enwiki_2013_2015_old <- old_pageviews()

# Break it down to hourly
old_enwiki_hourly <- old_pageviews(granularity = "hourly", end = "2013110100")