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Topic Interest Trends: Google Trends Alternative (Wikipedia)

Measure public interest in brands, products, people or topics with absolute numbers. Input: topics. Output (JSON/CSV): one row per item with topic, article, avgDailyViews, totalViews, recentChangePct, peakDate, peakViews, spikeRatio, trend.

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What it's for

Compare brand or competitor interest over time
Spot spikes in interest after launches or news
Pick content topics that are rising

Example input

{
 "topics": [
  "Shopify",
  "Squarespace",
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalshi",
  "zzqxv nonexistent topic 8812"
 ],
 "days": 60,
 "compareDays": 7,
 "includeDailySeries": false
}

Example output

{
  "topic": "Shopify",
  "article": "Shopify",
  "language": "en",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify",
  "days": 60,
  "totalViews": 55361,
  "avgDailyViews": 923,
  "last7dViews": 6070,
  "prev7dViews": 6230,
  "recentChangePct": -2.6,
  "peakDate": "2026-08-24",
  "peakViews": 1184,
  "spikeRatio": 1.3,
  "trend": "stable",
  "source": "Wikimedia Pageviews API (CC0), human traffic only"
}

Input reference

Field	Type	Notes
`topics` required	array	Names are matched to the best Wikipedia article; full Wikipedia URLs are used as-is.
`language`	string	e.g. en, de, es.
`days`	integer	Days of history
`compareDays`	integer	Last N days vs the N days before.
`includeDailySeries`	boolean	Include daily series

Pricing

Pay per event: Topic trend $0.002. Plus Apify's small per-run start fee. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit to try it.

How to run

Open the Store page and click Try for free.
Fill in the input (or paste the example JSON in the JSON tab).
Click Start, then export results as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it via the Apify API.
Optional: add a Schedule and a webhook/Slack/email integration for ongoing monitoring.

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