MSN and Altavista API's

Oh, and yahoo does too...

You could make your own simple "query api" pretty easily..

For MSN just make a URL encoded request to:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=whatever+you+want

For Altavista it is very similar:
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=link+to+altavista+search

Mr.Matthewdfleming
        I need the ranking of the site for the particular keyword, Not the result page.
ie., if i give the keyword as java and i give the site name as "www.java.com". If after search for that keyword if it finds the sitemap name it should return the place position of the site is listed.

thanks

Ahh yes.. well it looks like there are a plethora of free sites that do this already..
http://www.e-axis-inc.com/rank/
http://www.googlerankings.com/

If you were to do it yourself.. all you need to do is make a search request with the term.. then page through the results to test for the url. It shouldn't be too hard.. But why write it when you can just use an already existing site? :-)

Mr.Matthewdfleming,

        It was why i need is i don't want to depend on other sites and fear for whether that site will change their way i also want to change my way.
 
         Can you tell me a sample code for getting the ranking position for a particular keyword in a particular search engine exspecially for Lycos.com.

thanks

I think you will have to write your own program to submit the search, and parse results.

Check out the jakarta http client for an easy to use java http client @ http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/tutorial.html.  You could also use something like JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html) to sample (in the JMeter vernacular) web pages and follow links.  It even has a record feature so you could just click what you wanted to do in a browser and it would remember.

Ya Mr.Matthewdfleming,
 
       The same approach i done using http unit. But the thing in it is i just read the page of the particular site and i want to scrap the data. Instead of that i need to do is just if i give the keyword and the website name to find by giving the particular search engine name i want the ranking position in my application.

    Hoping for the positive result.

thanks

Can any one have the idea to get the ranking of our site in a particular search engine for the specific keyword by means of direct  coding in java

thanks

Hi ephrontech,

I've put up a link to the app here: http://www.colin-reid.co.uk/JSEDistributable.rar. Please let me know when you've got it so I can take it down again.

To compile, run c.bat under the soft directory. To run, simply run run.bat in the top level directory.

The app works for Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista and Alltheweb. At present msn.co.uk isn't working cause they've got a 302 redirect in place which the app cant handle (for the time being).

Although it doesnt cater for Lycos, it's been designed to eaily plug in more Search Engines. To add a new engine, place engine code in the soft\JSE\Search\Engines\Parsed directory similar to the others (they all follow the same format except Yahoo which is slightly different - these classes are primarily concerned with generating URLs and parsing the retrieved documents. Once this is done, register your new class in soft\JSE\SearchEngineBox.java. And thats it!

When you start up the app, put some keywords and domain names in the search fields and let it run - itll then prompt you for a save location, wher it outputs an HTML report of the ranks found.

Hope this helps, and feedback would be appreciated (and any code developed for Lycos).

colr__

btw I didnt use the Googe API because the returned results are different from the public facing website searches.

colr__

Mr.colr
   
    I got your app. I will try it

thanks a lot
please make contact with me for the doubt i have next on this

Sorry, Can you say this again, not sure what you mean here:

>> please make contact with me for the doubt i have next on this

colr__

Mr.Colr,

     I got your application and i run it. It is very nice. But the thing is you used a scraping method to get the page. I made the same thing using http unit(like Http Client). But the thing is if they(search engine site) change the site (ie., if suppose in MSN instead of <div id=result> if they change to <div id=final page>) we can't get the expected result. If we use this we have to be aware of the search engine site every time whether they are changing their site. So, instead of scraping, is their any way to get the rank of our site from the desired search engine.Because i want to include this as a part in my application.(Whether i got your coding functionality correctly or i mistaken it. If so, sorry for  my comment).

please contact.

thanks

>> So, instead of scraping, is their any way to get the rank of our site from the desired search engine

As has been said before, if you want to just use Google, then you can use their API

As the other sites don't have an API, you have to use the scraping method

Mr.TimYates

     Are you sure there is no way of getting our rank rather than scraping from our desired search engine.

>> Are you sure there is no way of getting our rank rather than scraping from our desired search engine.

No...you can use an API (as I said)

But only Google has one

(and Yahoo as colr__ points out -- cheers fella, always forget that one)