Extracting Google PR

If I wanted to use Google's PR on my page somewhere, how would I go about extracting this value?

 

You can't do it excessively without pissing off uncle G.

I have a PR calculator PHP file yuo can use. Can I send files via PM?

 

sure or just email them to info AT weirfire.co.uk

I wouldn't be using it excessively, it was just a hypothetical analargy.

I presume it's taken from the toolbar API?

 

I have no clue how it works, but it works. (Don't AAsk )

Will e-mail... Expect some spam too for posting it like that (not from me).

 

Cheers

It looks like

$google_url=sprintf("http://www.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&ch=6%u&features=Rank&q=".$url,$checksum);

could be the key to the whole program.

 

What about using ThinkBling's PR tool, I use it for my site.

 

Each URL needs a checksum created from it. This checksum formula along with the url is passed over to Google and then the PR is returned. The heart of the program is the actual checksum. Also I have not heard of Google blocking any PR fetch. Alexa however, is not as nice.

 

Thanks Thinkbling.

I could have another small project on the way for next year

There's some great tools at your site

www.thinkbling.com

The future pagerank calculation is a nice tool.

 

Yeah much better than the rustybrick one, that one is just pure gueswork.

 

hehe true.



So there is actually no limit to the number of times you can fetch the PR? That could be quite usefull.

 

I'm running a script at www.webmaster-resource.com that takes use of just this, it fetches the pagerank for all the sites submitted. The script it's based on is available on the net and is pretty easy to rewrite into doing something useful I don't remember where I downloaded the source though.. will post if I do.. was a cell-phone forum or something like that.

 

the php script I played with is here

http://www.nocertainty.com/e/pr-checksum

M

 

Cheers Martin.

Identical script to the 1 that TOPS sent me

 

It wasn't all that long ago (well a year or so) that the checksum script was a (relatively) closely guarded secret. Then it became available on a website that some student ran. A few months later Shawn released the PR widget for Macs (which contained the checksum formula as JS), and at which time I think I also noticed the SEOchat tool..

How things change

There's nothin like knowledge in motion.

Cheers,

JL

 

Anyone have the new checksum seed for this?

 

yes, but as far as I know both the old and the new are still working right?

btw, does anyone know just what you can get away with, query wise against alexa?