awis

PHP package for making requests to Alexa Web Information Service

##Instalation

The easiest way to install Awis is via composer. Create the following composer.json file and run the php composer.phar install command to install it.

{
    "require": {
        "nticaric/awis": "dev-master"
    }
}

##Examples

UrlInfo

The UrlInfo action provides information about a website, such as:

• how popular the site is
• what sites are related
• contact information for the owner of the site

Usage:

    use Nticaric\Awis\Awis;

    $awis = new Awis("ACCESS_KEY_ID", "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY");
    $response = $awis->getUrlInfo("example.com");

    //prints the raw xml response
    echo (string) $response->getBody();

The getUrlInfo method supports a second argument that lets you set a valid ResponseGroup. The default is set to ContentData. Possible values for the response group are:

Response Groups

Response Group	Data Returned
RelatedLinks	Up to 11 related links
Categories	Up to 3 DMOZ (Open Directory) categories the site belongs to
Rank	The Alexa three month average traffic rank
RankByCountry	Percentage of viewers, page views, and traffic rank broken out by country
RankByCity	Percentage of viewers, page views, and traffic rank broken out by city
UsageStats	Usage statistics such as reach and page views
ContactInfo	Contact information for the site owner or registrar
AdultContent	Whether the site is likely to contain adult content ('yes' or 'no')
Speed	Median load time and percent of known sites that are slower
Language	Content language code and character-encoding (note that this may not match the language or character encoding of any given page on the website because the languange and character set returned are those of the majority of pages)
Keywords	Keywords relevant to site content
OwnedDomains	Other domains owned by the same owner as this site
LinksInCount	A count of links pointing in to this site
SiteData	Title, description, and date the site was created

Meta-Response Groups

Response Group	Data Returned
Related	Up to 11 related links and up to 3 DMOZ categories (equivalent to ResponseGroup=RelatedLinks,Categories)
TrafficData	Traffic rank and usage statistics (equivalent to ResponseGroup=Rank,UsageStats)
ContentData	Information about the site's content (equivalent to ResponseGroup=SiteData,AdultContent,Popups,Speed,Language)

Usage:

    use Nticaric\Awis\Awis;

    $awis = new Awis("ACCESS_KEY_ID", "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY");
    $response = $awis->getUrlInfo("example.com", "ContentData");

TrafficHistory

The TrafficHistory action returns the daily Alexa Traffic Rank, Reach per Million Users, and Unique Page Views per Million Users for each day since August 2007. This same data is used to produce the traffic graphs found on alexa.com.

Usage:

    use Nticaric\Awis\Awis;

    $awis = new Awis("ACCESS_KEY_ID", "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY");
    $response = $awis->getTrafficHistory("example.com");

CategoryBrowse

The CategoryBrowse action and CategoryListings actions together provide a directory service based on the Open Directory, www.dmoz.org, and enhanced with Alexa traffic data.

For any given category, the CategoryBrowse action returns a list of sub-categories. Within a particular category you can use the CategoryListings action to get the documents within that category ordered by traffic.

Usage:

    use Nticaric\Awis\Awis;

    $awis = new Awis("ACCESS_KEY_ID", "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY");
    $response = $awis->getCategoryBrowse("example.com", "Categories", "Top/Arts");

CategoryListings

The CategoryListings action is a directory service based on the Open Directory, www.dmoz.org. For any given category, it returns a list of site listings contained within that category.

Usage:

    use Nticaric\Awis\Awis;

    $awis = new Awis("ACCESS_KEY_ID", "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY");
    $response = $awis->getCategoryListings("example.com", "Top/Arts", "Popularity", "False", 1, 20);

SitesLinkingIn

The SitesLinkingIn action returns a list of web sites linking to a given web site. Within each domain linking into the web site, only a single link - the one with the highest page-level traffic - is returned. The data is updated once every two months.

Usage:

    use Nticaric\Awis\Awis;

    $awis = new Awis("ACCESS_KEY_ID", "SECRET_ACCESS_KEY");
    $response = $this->awis->getSitesLinkingIn("example.com");