The stats.grok.se tool provides the pageview statistics of a particular page in wikipedia. Is there a method to use the wikipedia api to get the same information? What does the page views counter property actually mean?
The Pageview API was released a few days ago: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/{project}/{access}/{agent}/{article}/{granularity}/{start}/{end}
For example https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/all-agents/Foo/daily/20151010/20151012 will give you
{
"items": [
{
"project": "en.wikipedia",
"article": "Foo",
"granularity": "daily",
"timestamp": "2015101000",
"access": "all-access",
"agent": "all-agents",
"views": 79
},
{
"project": "en.wikipedia",
"article": "Foo",
"granularity": "daily",
"timestamp": "2015101100",
"access": "all-access",
"agent": "all-agents",
"views": 81
}
]
}