require 'typhoeus' require 'nokogiri' module PageRankr class Ranks class AlexaGlobal include Rank # 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. def xpath "//popularity[contains(@url, '#{@site.domain}')]/@text" end def request @request ||= Typhoeus::Request.new("http://data.alexa.com/data", :params => {:cli => 10, :dat => "snbamz", :url => @site.to_s}) end end end end