I am trying to parse the response from Wikipedia's API located at https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia.org/all-access/all-agents/Smithsonian_Institution/daily/20160101/20170101
into an array of structs of which I will proceed to print out the view count
However, the code that I have tried to implement in order to achieve this returns nothing in the terminal when I build and run it?
The code I am failing to succeed with is as follows.
type Post struct {
Project string `json:"project"`
Article string `json:"article"`
Granularity string `json:"granularity"`
Timestamp string `json:"timestamp"`
Access string `json:"access"`
Agent string `json:"agent"`
Views int `json:"views"`
}
func main(){
//The name of the wikipedia post
postName := "Smithsonian_Institution"
//The frequency of
period := "daily"
//When to start the selection
startDate := "20160101"
//When to end the selection
endDate := "20170101"
url := fmt.Sprintf("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia.org/all-access/all-agents/%s/%s/%s/%s", postName, period, startDate, endDate)
//Get from URL
req, err := http.Get(url)
if err != nil{
return
}
defer req.Body.Close()
var posts []Post
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
if err != nil {
panic(err.Error())
}
json.Unmarshal(body, &posts)
// Loop over structs and display the respective views.
for p := range posts {
fmt.Printf("Views = %v", posts[p].Views)
fmt.Println()
}
}
What is the optimal method of receiving a json response from a API such as the one mentioned above and thereafter parsing that array into an array of structs, which can then be inserted into a datastore or printed out accordingly.
Thanks