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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page

prop=pageviews (pvip)

(main | query | pageviews)

Shows per-page pageview data (the number of daily pageviews for each of the last pvipdays days).

The result format is page title (with underscores) => date (Ymd) => count.

Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
pvipmetric

The metric to use for counting views. Depending on what backend is used, not all metrics might be supported. You can use the siteinfo API (action=query&meta=siteinfo) to check which ones are supported, under pageviewservice-supported-metrics / module name (siteviews, mostviewed, etc.)

pageviews
Plain pageviews.
One of the following values: pageviews
Default: pageviews
pvipdays

The number of days to show.

Type: integer
The value must be between 1 and 60.
Default: 60
pvipcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.

Example:
Show pageview statistics for the main page.
api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=pageviews [open in sandbox]