top_articles: Retrieve Data on Top Articles
Description
top_articles grabs data on the top articles for a project
in a given time period, and for a particular platform.
Usage
top_articles(
project = "en.wikipedia",
platform = "all",
start = as.Date("2015-10-01"),
granularity = "daily",
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", "mobile-web" and
"mobile-app". Set to "all" by default.
- start
The date the articles were "top" in. 2015 by default.
- granularity
the granularity of data to return; "daily" or "monthly", depending on
whether top articles should reflect trends in day or month of the start date.
- 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
article_pageviews for per-article pageviews and project_pageviews for
per-project pageviews.
Examples
Run this code# Basic example
enwiki_top_articles <- top_articles()
# Use a narrower platform
enwiki_mobile_top <- top_articles(platform = "mobile-web")
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