Getting Alexa Rank

[tumanov]

For those that are interested, I wrote up a little bit on programmatically getting a site's Alexa Rank.

http://tumanov.com/entry/214

I guess the whole Google PageRank Checksum discussion fueled my interest

[Colin Dunstan]

Cool finding, tumanov! Works well, as I tried it with this site:

http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&da...mobileread.com

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<ALEXA VER="0.9" URL="mobileread.com/" HOME="0" AID="=">
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<RLS TITLE="Related Links" PREFIX="http://" more="0">
<RL HREF="toysoft.ca/Avantage.html" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="Avantage for AvantGo" CONF="134" ASIN="B0001HOR56"/>
<RL HREF="sitescooper.cx/" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="Sitescooper" CONF="134"/>
<RL HREF="palmone.com/us/software/webbrowserpro" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="Web Browser Pro" CONF="134" ASIN="B0000DBXOW"/>
<RL HREF="isilox.com/" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="iSiloX" CONF="134" ASIN="B00013E336"/>
<RL HREF="handspring.com/software/blazer_overview.jhtml" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="Handspring Blazer" CONF="134" ASIN="B00006BR3E"/>
<RL HREF="embisoft.com/" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="iPanel MicroBrowser" CONF="134"/>
<RL HREF="avantgo.com/" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="AvantGo" CONF="134" ASIN="B00006D4QA"/>
<RL HREF="access-us-inc.com/Prod_NetFront.html" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="NetFront" CONF="134" ASIN="B00017LZ9M"/>
<RL HREF="plkr.org/" TYPE="link" SRC="Dmoz" TITLE="Plucker" CONF="126" ASIN="B0000697RU"/>
</RLS>
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<SD TITLE="Alexa Site Data" FLAGS="DMOZ">
<AMZN ASIN="B0001ZBBMU" URL="mobileread.com/"/>
<POP RATE="7"/>
<LANG LEX="en" CODE="us-ascii"/>
<SPEED TEXT="2010" PCT="40"/>
<POPULARITY URL="mobileread.com/" TEXT="154454"/>
<CHILD SRATING="0"/>
<REACH RANK="134168"/>
</SD>
<KEYWORDS>
</KEYWORDS>
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<DMOZ>
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<SITE BASE="mobileread.com/" TITLE="MobileRead" DESC="Has over 800+ web channels preconfigured for iSilo. Also has a help forum supporting all popular PDA web browsers.">
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<CATS>
<CAT ID="Top/Computers/Systems/Handhelds/Palm_OS/Software/Web" TITLE="Software/Web"/>
</CATS>
</SITE>
</DMOZ>
</ALEXA>

Btw, you replace the number 10 in cli=10 to get various different results!

[tumanov]

Originally Posted by Morpheus

Btw, you replace the number 10 in cli=10 to get various different results!

Yeah, the dat= parameter seems to have meaning as well, I think the letters turn on or off various features in the output, for instance just dat=z shows the dmoz section only, etc.