# Wikipedia Attention

What the world is reading: page views, trending pages, comparisons, edit activity, summaries, search and on-this-day events.

## How to pay

Machine-payable over x402. USDC on: Base (eip155:8453), Solana (solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp), Polygon (eip155:137), Arbitrum One (eip155:42161).
No accounts. No API keys. No signup. The paying wallet is the account.

## Machine-readable

- OpenAPI: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/openapi.json
- x402 manifest: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/.well-known/x402
- Catalog (free): https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/catalog
- Health (free): https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/health
- Uptime (free): https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/uptime

## Endpoints (8)

### GET /on-this-day — $0.02
Historical events, births, deaths or holidays on a calendar date (month and day), with years and linked article titles.
Params: month: integer, day: integer, kind?: string, limit?: integer
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/on-this-day?month=10&day=11&kind=events&limit=5

### GET /page-compare — $0.05
Compare Wikipedia attention across 2 to 5 topics: total and daily average views, share of the group and growth over the window.
Params: articles: string, days?: integer, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/page-compare?articles=Bitcoin%7CEthereum%7CDogecoin&days=30

### GET /page-edit-activity — $0.03
Edits per day on a Wikipedia article over 30 days, with protection status: a signal of how contested the topic is.
Params: article: string, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/page-edit-activity?article=Bitcoin

### GET /page-summary — $0.03
Wikipedia article summary: description, lead extract, type (article or disambiguation), edit protection, size, last edit.
Params: article: string, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/page-summary?article=Bitcoin

### GET /page-views — $0.02
Daily human page views for a Wikipedia article over 7 to 90 days, with average, peak, spike and rising or falling trend flags.
Params: article: string, days?: integer, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/page-views?article=Bitcoin&days=30

### GET /top-pages — $0.03
The most-viewed Wikipedia articles on the latest published day, with views and rank, excluding the main page and special pages.
Params: limit?: integer, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/top-pages?limit=10

### GET /trending-pages — $0.05
Fastest-rising Wikipedia articles: biggest view gains against the previous week's average among each day's top 1000 pages.
Params: limit?: integer, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/trending-pages?limit=10

### GET /wiki-search — $0.02
Search Wikipedia article titles by words: exact titles, one-line descriptions and thumbnails, to disambiguate a topic.
Params: q: string, limit?: integer, lang?: string
Example: https://wikipedia-attention.x402tookit.com/wiki-search?q=bitcoin&limit=5

## Terms

Attention data comes from the Wikimedia Foundation public APIs (Wikimedia REST, MediaWiki) and local computation, provided as is. Page views measure human reading of an article on Wikipedia, not public opinion, news importance or truth; they are delayed by about a day and can be inflated by links, search features and campaigns. Article text is CC BY-SA: credit Wikipedia if you reuse it. Not advice.