Wikipedia pageviews growth API

Wikipedia pageview growth on Trends MCP returns percent moves and absolute view volumes for an article title in one get_growth call. On the July 1, 2026 points, Zendaya rose 107.58% over 30 days with recent_volume 2,191,805 views, up from 1,173,776 on June 1, 2026. The same session's Wikipedia Trending board (as_of 2026-08-12T06:01:42 UTC) returned 25 live titles for discovery. Short titles work more often than parenthetical ones. The free tier covers 100 requests per month.

What Wikipedia pageviews data shows right now

From the Trends MCP scan of August 12, 2026 (as_of_ts 2026-08-12T06:01:42 UTC), Wikipedia Trending returned 25 rows at limit 25 and offset 0. Rank 1 was .xxx, rank 2 Spider-Man: Brand New Day, rank 3 Lucy Davis, rank 4 The Odyssey (2026 film), and rank 5 The Last House. Later ranks included Anne Hathaway at 11, House of the Dragon at 14, Zendaya at 15, Tom Holland at 17, Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 at 18, House of the Dragon season 3 at 19, ChatGPT at 22, and List of highest-grossing films at 23.

Growth windows use monthly points with recent_date 2026-07-01. Zendaya rose 107.58% over 30 days (index 71.2 from 34.3) with volume_growth 86.73% (2,191,805 from 1,173,776). Over 3 months Zendaya rose 110.03% (baseline 33.9 on 2026-04-01, volume 1,162,815). Over 6 months Zendaya rose 1012.5% (baseline 6.4 on 2026-01-01, volume 402,984) with volume_growth 443.89%. Anne Hathaway rose 120.05% over 30 days (index 85.6 from 38.9) with recent_volume 1,065 versus baseline_volume 633.

Exact calls for pageview growth and the live board

Two calls cover most Wikipedia research. get_growth measures one title across preset windows. get_top_trends lists what is hot today without a keyword.

{
  "keyword": "Zendaya",
  "source": "wikipedia",
  "percent_growth": ["30D", "3M", "6M"]
}

{
  "type": "Wikipedia Trending",
  "limit": 25,
  "offset": 0
}

Zendaya's wikipedia series held 60 data points with all 3 windows successful on the August 12, 2026 pull. Tom Holland held 55 points: 30-day growth 172.73% (index 48.0 from 17.6), 3-month growth 605.88% (baseline 6.8), 6-month growth 1016.28% (baseline 4.3). Absolute volumes on Tom Holland were much smaller than Zendaya's (recent_volume 3,028 versus 2,191,805), so quote both percent and volume before calling either title a peer breakout.

How short titles compare to board strings

Board titles with years or subtitles often fail growth. Lucy Davis and Abdul El-Sayed returned no_data on wikipedia during the August 12, 2026 session. Spider-Man (short form) succeeded: 30-day growth 32.79% (index 16.2 from 12.2), recent_volume 701 versus baseline_volume 607, 3-month growth 131.43% (baseline 7.0), 6-month growth 149.23% (baseline 6.5). House of the Dragon succeeded with 30-day growth 44.44% (index 31.2 from 21.6), recent_volume 3,997 versus 2,901, 3-month growth 4357.14% from a 0.7 baseline on 2026-04-01, and 6-month growth 1100.0% from baseline 2.6.

ChatGPT rose 41.79% over 30 days (index 47.5 from 33.5) with recent_volume 6,574 versus baseline_volume 4,632, 3-month growth 38.08%, and 6-month growth 36.89%. Those steadier mid-40s index moves differ from Zendaya's triple-digit 30-day jump. Prefer 30D, 3M, and 6M windows; memory from prior runs shows 7D and 14D can collapse on this source.

Who uses Wikipedia pageview curves

Film and franchise desks watch title pairs when a trailer or casting note hits. Zendaya at 2,191,805 recent views and Tom Holland at a much smaller resolved volume on the same July 1, 2026 point show why absolute volume belongs next to every percent. Newsrooms use the live board as a discovery list, then run get_growth on the short article name. Researchers building attention models store the volume fields because a 4000% move from a sub-1.0 baseline can still be a small page.

A practical loop: pull Wikipedia Trending at a fixed UTC hour, drop file: rows and list pages, shorten remaining titles, then run get_growth on the top 5 short forms. The August 12, 2026 board already surfaces Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 at rank 18, which is a same-day event string worth a separate google news check even when wikipedia growth is thin.

Limits and honest caveats

Wikipedia growth resolves titles through the Trends MCP wikipedia source, not through a guaranteed MediaWiki page-id match in the response. Volumes for some short names look small beside mega pages; treat recent_volume as the authority for size and growth percent as the momentum signal. Parenthetical board titles such as The Odyssey (2026 film) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day should be shortened before the growth call. Prior runs also saw SummerSlam (2026) fail while SummerSlam succeeded.

Coverage is point-to-point on the dates returned. The July 1, 2026 recent_date can lag the pull day by weeks; quote that stamp when publishing figures. The live board and the growth series are different products: board rank 1 (.xxx on August 12, 2026) is not automatically the largest pageview volume in the growth table.

Pricing and where to go next

The free plan includes 100 requests per month. Starter is $19 per month for 1,000 requests, Pro $49 for 5,000, and Business $199 for 25,000. Check current pricing before production. For the board-first reference, see the Wikipedia Trending API. For news headline context around the same names, see the Google News Top News API. For search demand around the same titles, see Google Trends.