wikipedia-trends-api

Wikipedia page view time series and growth via REST API. Weekly data, period-over-period growth, zero dependencies.

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Install

npm install wikipedia-trends-api

Quick start

import { TrendsMcpClient } from "wikipedia-trends-api";

const client = new TrendsMcpClient({ apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY" });

// ~5 years of weekly time series
const series = await client.getTimeSeries({
  source: "wikipedia",
  keyword: "artificial intelligence",
});
console.log(series[0]);
// { date: "2026-03-21", value: 72, volume: null, keyword: "artificial intelligence", source: "wikipedia" }

// Period-over-period growth
const growth = await client.getGrowth({
  source: "wikipedia",
  keyword: "artificial intelligence",
  percent_growth: ["12M", "YTD"],
});
console.log(growth.results[0]);
// { period: "3M", growth: 14.5, direction: "increase", ... }

// What's trending right now
const trending = await client.getTopTrends({ limit: 10 });
console.log(trending.data);
// [[1, "topic one"], [2, "topic two"], ...]

Methods

getTimeSeries(params) / getTrends(params)

Returns ~5 years of weekly historical data for a keyword. Prefer getTimeSeries.

getGrowth(params)

Calculates percentage growth between two points in time. Pass preset strings ("3M", "1Y", "YTD", etc.) or custom date pairs. Omitting percent_growth defaults to ["12M"].

Growth presets: 7D 14D 30D 1M 2M 3M 6M 9M 12M 1Y 18M 24M 2Y 36M 3Y 48M 60M 5Y MTD QTD YTD

getTopTrends(params?)

Returns today's live trending items. Omit type to get all feeds at once. Supports category, limit, and offset.

All supported sources

This package exposes the full TrendsMcpClient — all sources work, not just wikipedia:

| source | Description | |---|---| | "google search" | Google search volume | | "google images" | Google image search volume | | "google news" | Google News search volume | | "google shopping" | Google Shopping search volume | | "youtube" | YouTube search volume | | "tiktok" | TikTok hashtag volume | | "reddit" | Subreddit subscribers (name only, no r/) | | "amazon" | Amazon product search volume | | "wikipedia" | Wikipedia page views | | "news volume" | News article mention volume | | "news sentiment" | News sentiment score | | "app downloads" | Android app downloads (bundle ID) | | "app rankings" | Android app rankings (bundle ID) | | "npm" | npm package weekly downloads | | "steam" | Steam concurrent players |

Error handling

import { TrendsMcpClient, TrendsMcpError } from "wikipedia-trends-api";

try {
  const series = await client.getTimeSeries({ source: "wikipedia", keyword: "artificial intelligence" });
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof TrendsMcpError) {
    console.error(err.status);  // 429
    console.error(err.code);    // "rate_limited"
    console.error(err.message);
  }
}

Links

• API docs
• Get a free API key
• All packages
• GitHub

License

MIT