script to find PR

[indiandomain]

i was wondering if there is anyway to make a script to detect the PR of a website.
i need to check the PR of a huge number of sites.

[jpjones]

I suppose it would be possible, after all, the toolbar does it!

What you would have to do is find out the relevant values for each page you want the PR of, and then use your script to repeatedly call the toolbarqueries url, and record the output somewhere.

Whether this would be seen as a form of unauthorised querying of their database or not is another thing.

See http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/9443.htm [webmasterworld.com] for more information on the pagerank http request.

HTH,
JP

[bkk344]

I thought it was against Google's TOS to make a script/program to detect pagerank. Or maybe it was to market a script that does this such thing. Maybe one of the senior posters on this board to straighten this out.

[SlyOldDog]

[google.com...]

You are entitled to 1000 automated queries a day if you set up a google account.

[jpjones]

You are entitled to 1000 automated queries a day if you set up a google account.

But isn't the 1000 queries issued for use with the Google API only? And doesn't the Google API only let you run a search term query, check spelling, or view a page in the cache?

In my mind, any other use would be abuse of the service, and hence against the TOS.

JP

[SlyOldDog]

Well it's a developer's toolkit, and you can get pagerank with a straight query (allbeit in a roundabout way using info from your temporary internet files folder).

I'm not a programmer but I know how to do it in principle.