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SEO::Ping - Bulk pinging to services supporting 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 to notify services supporting Weblog API (http://www.weblogs.com/api.html) about new pages on websites\blogs: Google Blog Search, Feed Burner, Ping-o-Matic, etc.

A-Parser functionality allows you to save SEO::Ping scraping settings for future use (presets), set scraping schedules, and much more.

Saving results is possible in any form and structure you need, thanks to the built-in powerful Template Toolkit templating engine, which allows applying additional logic to 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:

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

Full format​

The following is specified separated by a space:

  • Address of the Ping service where the Ping request will be sent
  • A JSON string containing the description of the pinged site
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, you can specify additional parameters such as:

  • Website RSS feed address
  • Tags describing the categories the site belongs to

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 macro capabilities in the Query format:

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

Then the final query can be specified as follows:

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

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

Output results examples​

A-Parser supports flexible result formatting thanks to the built-in Template Toolkit templating engine, which allows it to output results in arbitrary form, as well as structured, for example, 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

Settings​

note

Common settings for all scrapers