# Wikipedia Trending Articles by Language and Day

> Wikipedia Trending Articles by Language and Day is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the most-read Wikipedia articles for a given language and date, with view counts and rankings, filtered to remove technical/maintenance pages.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/wikipedia-trending-articles-by-language-and-day-2debe2e8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MH3X_Ri5Fym1DM8aELBYn

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability wikipedia-trending-articles-by-language-and-day-2debe2e8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What were the 20 most-read Wikipedia articles in English yesterday? I want to see what topics people were looking up, with view counts and rankings.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a ready-to-use, pre-filtered signal of what topics humans are actively researching on Wikipedia — without needing to call Wikimedia APIs directly, handle data cleaning, or strip out technical/bot pages. It is especially useful for trend detection, current events monitoring, content strategy, and news briefing workflows where a clean ranked list with view counts is needed quickly.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format (not YYYY-MM-DD) may return an error or empty result
- Requesting a future date returns no data as Wikimedia pageviews are historical only
- Very recent dates (today) may have incomplete data; yesterday is the default
- Unsupported or misspelled language codes may return empty article lists
- Wikimedia data availability gaps for older dates may yield partial results

## How this service works

Most read Wikipedia articles in a language on a given day (yesterday by default): what people are looking up, with views and rank, technical pages removed. A signal of current events and trends.

## Output

A JSON object containing the date, language, data source attribution, and an array of articles each with title, Wikipedia URL, view count (visits), and rank position. Technical and maintenance pages are pre-filtered out.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "day": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "YYYY-MM-DD"
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "language": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "day": "2026-10-15",
  "source": "Wikimedia pageviews (CC0)",
  "articles": [
   {
    "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB",
    "rank": 1,
    "visits": 453110,
    "article": "GBU-43/B MOAB"
   },
   {
    "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Zacharia",
    "rank": 2,
    "visits": 428191,
    "article": "Katie Zacharia"
   }
  ],
  "language": "en"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/wikipedia-trending-articles-by-language-and-day-2debe2e8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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