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Google and Yahoo have search API's that you can use for these tasks without breaking TOS. Most of the software apps around use the API's if you give them your k
by matthewking 17y ago
Google and Yahoo have search API's that you can use for these tasks without breaking TOS. Most of the software apps around use the API's if you give them your key, or you may prefer to write your own script to use the API's.
Otherwise I guess you could just use normal search from your script, but keep it slow, the kind of speed you'd go if you were doing it manually, and leave it running until its done? depends how often you need to check the stats.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoThanks. I've considered it but honestly I have so much code that I maintain already... I'll check for some of the tools - the problem that I've had is knowing which tool's marketing copy to trust. None of them will come out and say, "We'll let you do stuff you aren't supposed to!" but I've read that many actually can get you into trouble.
- matthewking 17y agoYou'd be surprised how easy it is to setup something useful, my in house one is about 250~ lines (ruby) connecting with some of my own API's too for config and reporting. Previously I used advancedwebranking.com which worked well, but I only needed the rankings reports which I then needed to integrate into my own applications, so there was very little code to produce to get the functionality I needed.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoI think that the ranking reports that the advancedwebranking.com site offers are probably what I need - thanks for the suggestion. If you have a referral code, pass it along and you'll get credit if I buy!