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SEO::Ping - Bulk submission of Ping requests to services supporting the Weblog API (Google Blog Search, Feed Burner, Ping-o-Matic, etc.)

Overview of the scraper​

Overview of the scraperSEO::PingSEO::Ping – allows sending Ping requests, notifying about the appearance of new pages on websites\\blogs to services that support Weblog API (http://www.weblogs.com/api.html): Google Blog Search, Feed Burner, Ping-o-Matic, etc.

A-Parser functionality allows saving SEO::Ping scraper parsing settings for future use (presets), setting parsing schedule and much more.

Result saving is possible in the form and structure that you need, thanks to the built-in powerful templater Template Toolkit which allows applying additional logic to the results and outputting data in various formats, including JSON, SQL and CSV.

Use Cases​

  • Mass indexing of website and blog pages

Queries​

Two query options are supported: simplified and full format.

Simplified format​

The following parameters are specified separated by a space:

  • Ping service address where the Ping request will be directed
  • Website address
  • Link to the website page for indexing
  • Name of the website or blog
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://a-parser.com/ http://a-parser.com/wiki/seo-ping A-Parser - scraper for SEO professionals

Full format​

Specified separated by a space:

  • Ping service address where the Ping request will be directed
  • A string in JSON format that contains the description of the site being pinged
http://ping.feedburner.com {"name":"A-Parser - scraper for SEO professionals", "site":"http://a-parser.com/", "page":"http://a-parser.com/wiki/seo-ping", "feed":"http://a-parser.com/feed", "tags":"parser|scraper"}

In the full format, it is possible to specify additional parameters, such as:

  • RSS feed address of the website
  • Tags describing the categories to which the site belongs

All parameters, except name and site, are optional.

Mass sending of requests to multiple services​

For mass sending of multiple pages to multiple services, you can use the macro capabilities in Query format:

  • Place the list of services in the queries/subs/ping-services.txt file
  • Place the list of links for indexing in the queries/subs/site-links.txt file

Then the final query can be specified as:

{subs:ping-services} http://a-parser.com/ {subs:site-links} A-Parser - scraper for SEO professionals

The scraper will automatically create requests and send each link from the site-links.txt file to each service in the ping-services.txt file.

Output Results Examples​

A-Parser supports flexible result formatting thanks to the built-in templater Template Toolkit, which allows it to output results in an arbitrary form, as well as in a structured one, such as CSV or JSON

Default output​

Result format:

$service: $message\n

Result example:

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2: Thanks for the ping.

The success of the Ping request should be determined by the following parameters:

  • $success = 1 - request successfully sent and response received
  • $flerror = 0 - Ping service accepted the request without errors

Possible settings​

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General settings for all scrapers

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