---
title: "Get Best Times General Metrics"
method: GET
path: "/general/hour"
---

# Get Best Times General Metrics

`GET /general/hour`

Retrieve hourly viewing metrics across all videos for the given date range. Returns two views of the same data: raw entries per video grouped by date and hour, and aggregated totals grouped by date and 2-hour time buckets.

## Query parameters

- `start_date` string, date, required
- `end_date` string, date, required

## Response `200`

Hourly viewing metrics. Contains two views of the same data: raw entries (views_data) and aggregated 2-hour buckets (aggregated_data).

- object
  - `views_data` object — Raw hourly entries keyed by date (YYYY-MM-DD).
  - `aggregated_data` object — Totals keyed by date (YYYY-MM-DD). Each value is an object whose keys are 2-hour buckets (0-2, 2-4, 4-6, 6-8, 8-10, 10-12, 12-14, 14-16, 16-18, 18-20, 20-22, 22-00).

## Other responses

- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden
- `422` — Unprocessable Entity
- `500` — Internal Server Error

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[API](https://skmtc.net/pandavideo/apis/api-v2.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/pandavideo/apis/api-v2/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/pandavideo/api-v2/versions/4fbd3c623ca9/schema)