Wikipedia Trending
by Vextorium in News & content
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.
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending
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- Uptime
- 0.0%
- Response time
- - typical, - slowest 5%
- Last check
- 47 min ago: Amount "0.002" is not in atomic token units
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How to call it
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending
Each call costs $0.002 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending
content-type: application/json
{
"language": "en",
"limit": 3
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
day | string | No | YYYY-MM-DD |
language | string | No | |
limit | integer | No |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"articles": [
{
"article": "Christa Pike",
"link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Pike",
"rank": 1,
"visits": 4309025
},
{
"article": "USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)",
"link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_%28CVN-71%29",
"rank": 2,
"visits": 495200
}
],
"day": "2026-10-01",
"language": "en",
"source": "Wikimedia pageviews (CC0)"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.002.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"language":"en","limit":3}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"language":"en","limit":3}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.002 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.002" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.002 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.vextorium.com%2Fv1%2Fwikipedia-trending&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"language": "en",
"limit": 3
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.002 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.002"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.vextorium.com/v1/wikipedia-trending",
json={
"language": "en",
"limit": 3,
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
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| 47 min ago | Amount "0.002" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 100 ms | $0.002 |
| 6 h ago | Amount "0.002" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 154 ms | $0.002 |
| 10 h ago | Amount "0.002" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 83 ms | $0.002 |
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| 2 days ago | Amount "0.002" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 221 ms | $0.002 |
| 3 days ago | Amount "0.002" is not in atomic token units | 402 | 79 ms | $0.002 |