Alexa Web Information Service

Ruby client for AWIS

Installation

gem install alexa

Usage

All success response objects contain response_id method.

Url Info

client = Alexa::Client.new(access_key_id: "key", secret_access_key: "secret")
url_info = client.url_info(url: "site.com")

Returns object that contains methods:

• rank
• data_url
• site_title
• site_description
• language_locale
• language_encoding
• links_in_count
• keywords
• related_links
• speed_median_load_time
• speed_percentile
• rank_by_country
• rank_by_city
• usage_statistics
• categories

You can specify options:

• url - address to be measured
• response_group - which data to include in response (i.e. ["rank", "contact_info"]) - defaults to all available

See: Docs for valid groups.

Sites Linking In

client = Alexa::Client.new(access_key_id: "key", secret_access_key: "secret")
sites_linking_in = client.sites_linking_in(url: "site.com")

Returns object that contains method:

• sites

You can specify options:

• url - address to be measured
• count - how many results to retrieve - defaults to max value that is 20
• start - offset of results - defaults to 0

Traffic History

client = Alexa::Client.new(access_key_id: "key", secret_access_key: "secret")
traffic_history = client.traffic_history(url: "site.com")

Returns object that contains methods:

• site
• range
• start
• data

You can specify options:

• url - address to be measured
• range - how many days to retrieve - defaults to max value 31
• start - start date (i.e. "20120120", 4.days.ago) - defaults to range number days ago

Category Browse

client = Alexa::Client.new(access_key_id: "key", secret_access_key: "secret")
category_browse = client.category_browse(path: "Top/Games/Card_Games")

Returns object that contains methods:

• categories
• language_categories
• related_categories
• letter_bars

You can specify options:

• path - category to be measured (i.e. "Top/Games/Card_Games") - valid paths can be found on dmoz
• response_group - any of: categories, related_categories, language_categories, letter_bars - defaults to all
• descriptions - should response include descriptions (i.e. false) - defaults to true

Category Listings

client = Alexa::Client.new(access_key_id: "key", secret_access_key: "secret")
category_listings = client.category_listings(path: "Top/Games/Card_Games")

Returns object that contains methods:

• count
• recursive_count
• listings

You can specify options:

• path - category to be measured (i.e. "Top/Games/Card_Games") - valid paths can be found on dmoz
• sort_by - sort results by one of: popularity, title, average_review - defaults to popularity
• recursive - should result include subcategories (i.e. false)- defaults to true
• count - how many results to retrieve - defaults to max value, that is 20
• start - offset of results - defaults to 0
• descriptions - should response include descriptions (i.e. false) - defaults to true

Caveats

Status Code

You can retrieve Alexa status code calling status_code method.

It happens (so far in TrafficHistory) that Alexa returns response 200 with AlexaError status.

Parsers

Alexa is using multi_xml to parse XML documents. Tested with:

• rexml
• nokogiri
• libxml

Currently alexa will not work with ox gem

Contributors

• rmoriz
• jasongill
• sporkmonger
• pelf
• tyler-smith

Continuous Integration

Copyright

Copyright (c) Wojciech Wnętrzak. See LICENSE for details.