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Broken alexa thumbnails

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by templates, Mar 11, 2006.

  1. #1
    this may not be the right place to post this.
    I bought a site a few months back,http://www.ru7.org ,a directory site.It shows a thumbnail shot of the home page of the sites that are listed,but this stopped working a month ago.Does anyone know how to fix this?or get rid of that option all together,and just show the links as text only? :(
     
    templates, Mar 11, 2006 IP
  2. wwm

    wwm Peon

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    #2
    i use a firefox plugin to show thumbs when searching googleit broke a few weeks ago, it was very usefull :)

    you know yourself a picture tells a thousand words
     
    wwm, Mar 13, 2006 IP
  3. Greg-J

    Greg-J I humbly return to you.

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    #3
    Alexa now dissalows direct linking to their thumbnails. If alexa isn't the referrer, you won't get to see it.

    Anyone know how to fake a referrer with php? ;)
     
    Greg-J, Mar 30, 2006 IP
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    Cristian Mezei Notable Member

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    #4
    I found out how to get the alexa thumbnails work.

    I'm just gonna share a 1 mil USD tip to you guys :rolleyes:

    Use this URL (It's supposed to by for Alexa partners only, but as you will see, it works for any URL):

    http :// pthumbnails.alexa.com/image_server.cgi?id=your-website-address&size=large&url=url-of-the-address-to-be-checked

    I used the two spaces there, so that the url won't be shortened.

    I'm expecting lots of beers.
     
    Cristian Mezei, Apr 8, 2006 IP
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  5. Greg-J

    Greg-J I humbly return to you.

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    #5
    I would give you a beer had I not come across his a couple days ago ;)

    At least you shared it though. I was a greedy, selfish bastard who wanted to keep it to myself.


    -Cheers
     
    Greg-J, Apr 9, 2006 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #6
    I just tried it out after reading Christian's post in another thread... unfortunately I couldn't get it to work.

    Something to do with no id perhaps? but then I couldn't get any of the alexa pages to show properly. The home page loaded without the css!
     
    sarahk, Apr 9, 2006 IP
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    Cristian Mezei Notable Member

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    #7
    You might have some general ISP problems then.

    Try without the website id, like :

     
    Cristian Mezei, Apr 9, 2006 IP
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    daredashi Well-Known Member

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    ALEXA images don't work with id. try using in following format :
    "http://pthumbnails.alexa.com/image_server.cgi?size=small&url=http://www.yoururl.com"
     
    daredashi, Apr 10, 2006 IP
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    I just said that one post earlier. Did you had to repeat it ?
     
    Cristian Mezei, Apr 10, 2006 IP
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    daredashi Well-Known Member

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    i am sorry, i have repeted :(
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    I recently requested the ability to do this using Alexa Web Services. Their response: Gosh we should think about that.

    Lets hope they add it soon.
     
    sarahk, May 22, 2006 IP