Public APIs

Data collection API

Category pagecount data collected by this tool can be queried via a RESTful API

API Keys

Everyone can use the key tnt for the time being

Endpoint

The API endpoint is https://tools.theresnotime.co.uk/api/v1/

Returned data

All data is returned in JSON, and where multiple results are returned (e.g. getCounts), data is returned in descending date order

A successful query will have success: true as the first returned JSON value - an unsuccessful query will have the inverse.

Valid actions

Currently, the only valid action is getCounts

getCounts

Description

Gets historical category pagecounts

Parameters

• action=getCounts
• cat={category name}
• count={number of datapoints to return, up to max 2000}

Example

https://tools.theresnotime.co.uk/api/v1/?key=tnt&action=getCounts&cat=Category:Pending_AfC_submissions&count=3 (try it)

  {
    ok: true,
    error: false,
    category: "Category:Pending AfC submissions",
    detail: [
      {
        dateTime: "2021-07-05 23:01:02",
        pagecount: "3829"
      },
      {
        dateTime: "2021-07-06 23:01:02",
        pagecount: "3676"
      },
      {
        dateTime: "2021-07-07 23:01:02",
        pagecount: "3599"
      }
    ]
  }
  

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