covid19/bin/fetch_daily_views.py
Kaylea Champion ec3f66bbcc for testing
2020-03-27 16:00:36 -07:00

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#!/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()