Class: PageRankr::Ranks::AlexaUs

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
PageRankr::Rank
Defined in:
lib/page_rankr/ranks/alexa_us.rb

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes included from PageRankr::Rank

#rank

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from PageRankr::Rank

#clean, #initialize

Instance Method Details

#request ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/page_rankr/ranks/alexa_us.rb', line 19

def request
   @request ||= Typhoeus::Request.new("http://data.alexa.com/data",
        :params => {:cli => 10, :dat => "snbamz", :url => @site.to_s})
end

#xpath ⇒ Object

Alexa may sometimes return a result for the incorrect site and thus it is necessary to check if the results returned are for the site we want.

For example, slocourts.net returns results for ca.gov, presumably because www.slocourts.ca.gov redirects to slocourts.net. Clearly something is wrong with how Alexa handles this case and so in the event this happens we treat the results as if there were no results.



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# File 'lib/page_rankr/ranks/alexa_us.rb', line 15

def xpath
  "//popularity[contains(@url, '#{@site.domain}')]/../reach/@rank"
end