Check Alexa Ranking of a Domain - "alexa.py"

[c0dist]

Hello,

I just wrote a quick and dirty solution to check Alexa ranking of a domain. So, I thought would share the script with you guys. Might help someone.

Note: This script uses BeautifulSoup to parse the webpage for extracting ranks. This script might stop working in future if structure of Alexa's website is changed. Also, you should have BeautifulSoup 4 and Requests libraries. And, this script prints the global ranking and single county rank, without changing anything from wepage. Might not work as expected and may cause Gotham to fall into clutches of Joker (I would hate that though.). Well If you still insist, here's the code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Description: A quick script to check a domain's Alexa rank.
# Author: c0dist
# Usage: python alexa.py <domain_to_query>

import sys
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

def get_rank(domain_to_query):
    result = {'Global':''}
    url = "http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/" + domain_to_query
    page = requests.get(url).text
    soup = bs(page)
    for span in soup.find_all('span'):
        if span.has_attr("class"):
            if "globleRank" in span["class"]:
                for strong in span.find_all("strong"):
                    if strong.has_attr("class"):
                        if "metrics-data" in strong["class"]:
                            result['Global'] = strong.text
            # Extracting CountryRank
            if "countryRank" in span["class"]:
                image = span.find_all("img")
                for img in image:
                    if img.has_attr("title"):
                        country = img["title"]
                for strong in span.find_all("strong"):
                    if strong.has_attr("class"):
                        if "metrics-data" in strong["class"]:
                            result[country] = strong.text
    return result

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print get_rank(sys.argv[1])

Usage:

batman@gothamcity ~ $ python alexa.py google.com
{'Global': u'1', 'United States Flag': u'1'}

Using inside another python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import alexa

print alexa.get_rank("garage4hackers.com") # Yup, just like this. ;) Returns a dictionary. You can parse accordingly.

Share your suggestions and comments (if any)

Regards,
c0dist

[c0dist]

Also, while browsing forum, came across this Perl script by silentph33r which does the same work plus reverse IP lookup. Though haven't tested the script.

POst link - http://garage4hackers.com/content.ph...a-Rank-Checker

[b0nd]

Thanks for sharing it! Open source is always welcome!

Cheers!

[c0dist]

For future reference, here's the script on my Github. If I add something or fix something, please check here - https://github.com/RahulBinjve/scrip...aster/alexa.py