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.
Examples
Run this code# NOT RUN {
# Basic example
enwiki_top_articles <- top_articles()
# Use a narrower platform
enwiki_mobile_top <- top_articles(platform = "mobile-web")
# }
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