NAME

WWW::Alexa::API - A class implementation interface for querying Alexa.com for Traffic information.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Alexa::API;
my $alexa = WWW::Alexa::API->new();
my $alexa_response = $alexa->get('example.com');

DESCRIPTION

The WWW::Alexa::API is a class implementation interface for querying Alexa.com for Traffic information. This offers the full Alexa API response in a hash object. See "OUTPUT" for the structure of the response.

To use it, you should create a WWW::Alexa::API object and use its method to get(), to query information for a domain.

USAGE

my $alexa = WWW::Alexa::API->new(%options); my $alexa_response = $alexa->get('alexa.com'); my $alexa_rank = $alexa_response->{SD}[1]->{POPULARITY}->{-TEXT}; if (defined $alexa_response->{DMOZ}) { ## Has DMOZ }

This method constructs a new WWW::Alexa::API object and returns it. Key/value pair arguments can be provided to set up an initial user agent. The following options allow specific attributes for LWP::UserAgent

KEY DEFAULT ------------ -------------------- agent "Opera 10.0" proxy undef timeout undef ip_address undef

agent specifies the header 'User-Agent' when querying Alexa. If the proxy option is passed in, requests will be made through specified proxy. proxy is the host which serve requests to Alexa. ip_address allows you to set an X-Real-IP header for LWP::UserAgent.

OUTPUT

$VAR1 = { '-URL' => 'alexa.com/', '-VER' => '0.9', '-HOME' => '0', '-IDN' => 'alexa.com/', 'RLS' => { 'RL' => [ { '-TITLE' => 'Open Directory Project', '-HREF' => 'dmoz.org/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'Internet Archive', '-HREF' => 'archive.org/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'Wiki - AboutUs Wiki Page', '-HREF' => 'aboutus.org/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'Ask.com', '-HREF' => 'www.ask.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'StatCounter.com', 'HREF' => 'statcounter.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'Statbrain.com', '-HREF' => 'statbrain.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'SiteSell.com', '-HREF' => 'sitesell.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'Site Meter - Counter And Statistics Tracker', '-HREF' => 'sitemeter.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => "\x{631}\x{62a}\x{628}: \x{62a}\x{631}\x{62a}\x{64a}\x{628} \x{627}\x{644}\x{645}\x{648}\x{627}\x{642}\x{639} \x{627}\x{644}\x{639}\x{631}\x{628}\x{64a}\x{629}", '-HREF' => 'ratteb.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'Quantcast', '-HREF' => 'quantcast.com/' }, { '-TITLE' => 'www.amazon.com/', '-HREF' => 'www.amazon.com/' } ], '-more' => '65', '-PREFIX' => 'http://' }, '-AID' => '=', 'KEYWORDS' => { 'KEYWORD' => [ { '-VAL' => 'Opportunities' }, { '-VAL' => 'Partners Programs' }, { '-VAL' => 'Amazon Associates Program' } ] }, 'DMOZ' => { 'SITE' => { '-DESC' => 'Alexa is the leading provider of free, global web metrics. Search Alexa to discover the most successful sites on the web by keyword, category, or country. Use our analytics for competitive analysis, benchmarking, market research, or business development. Use Alexa\'s Pro tools to optimize your company\'s presence on the web.', '-TITLE' => 'Alexa Internet', '-BASE' => 'alexa.com/', 'CATS' => { 'CAT' => { '-ID' => 'Top/Computers/Internet/Statistics_and_Demographics/Internet_Traffic', '-CID' => '374841', '-TITLE' => 'Statistics and Demographics/Internet Traffic' } } } }, 'SD' => [ { 'COUNTRY' => { '-CODE' => 'US' }, '-TITLE' => 'A', '-FLAGS' => 'DMOZ', 'CHILD' => { '-SRATING' => '0' }, 'SPEED' => { '-TEXT' => '1611', '-PCT' => '52' }, 'LINKSIN' => { '-NUM' => '358113' }, 'ASSOCS' => { 'ASSOC' => { '-ID' => 'alexashopping-9' } }, 'CREATED' => { '-MONTH' => '07', '-DAY' => '17', '-YEAR' => '1996', '-DATE' => '17-Jul-1996' }, 'CERTIFIED' => { '-DATE' => '2013-12-03T00:00:03Z' }, 'ADDR' => { '-COUNTRY' => 'USA', '-ZIP' => '94129', '-STATE' => 'CA', '-CITY' => 'San Francisco', '-STREET' => 'Presidio of San Francisco, PO Box 29141' }, 'LANG' => { '-LEX' => 'en' }, 'SITEDATA' => { '-DISPLAY' => '7' }, 'REVIEWS' => { '-NUM' => '939', '-AVG' => '4.5' }, 'CLAIMED' => { '-DATE' => '2013-12-06T11:00:10Z' }, 'TICKER' => { '-SYMBOL' => 'AMZN' }, 'ALEXAPRO' => { '-TIER' => 'advanced' }, 'LINK' => [ { '-NUM' => '1', '-TEXT' => 'Alexa Products', '-URL' => 'http://www.alexa.com/products' }, { '-NUM' => '2', '-TEXT' => 'Alexa Toolbar Creator', '-URL' => 'http://www.alexa.com/toolbar-creator' } ], '-HOST' => 'alexa.com', 'EMAIL' => { '-ADDR' => 'Alexa Internet' }, 'TITLE' => { '-TEXT' => 'Alexa Internet' }, 'LOGO' => { '-URL' => 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/com.alexa.data/fr_logo_url/205_4c67c060c607f3c93208e7d0f3aa00d1.png' }, 'OWNER' => { '-NAME' => 'Alexa Internet' }, 'PHONE' => { '-NUMBER' => 'unlisted' } }, { 'COUNTRY' => { '-RANK' => '1700', '-NAME' => 'United States', '-CODE' => 'US' }, 'POPULARITY' => { '-TEXT' => '1502', '-URL' => 'alexa.com/', '-SOURCE' => 'certify' }, 'REACH' => { '-RANK' => '1458' }, 'RANK' => { '-DELTA' => '+237' } } ] };

BUGS

All bugs can be reported to https://github.com/rijvirajib/WWW-Alexa-API

Some users report issues installing XML::Hash::LX

sudo apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl zlib1g-dev

SUPPORT

Support requests can be sent to https://github.com/rijvirajib/WWW-Alexa-API

AUTHOR

Rijvi Rajib
CPAN ID: RIJ
Cyphrd
cpan @ rij.co
http:/www.rij.co

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

perl(1).