Find information about domains, including the kind of content that they carry, how popular are they, sites linking to them, among other things.
The package provides access to the Alexa Web Information Service API.
To get the current development version from github:
To get going, get the application id and password from https://aws.amazon.com/. Then set the
application id and password via the set_secret_key
function.
res <- url_info("http://www.google.com")
res <- do.call(cbind, lapply(res[[2]][[1]][[2]], as.data.frame))
dimnames(res) <- list(1:nrow(res), c("url", "attribute", "title", "description", "online_since"))
return(res)## url attribute title
## 1 google.com/ canonical Google
description
## 1 Enables users to search the world's information, including webpages, images, and videos. Offers unique features and search technology.
## online_since
## 1 15-Sep-1997## Date PageViews.PerMillion PageViews.PerUser Rank Reach.PerMillion
## 1 2016-04-22 105330 16.18 1 436000
## 2 2016-04-23 78490 12.30 2 414000
## 3 2016-04-24 75310 11.94 2 413600
## 4 2016-04-25 112420 17.90 1 436800
## 5 2016-04-26 114280 17.79 1 447300
## 6 2016-04-27 111610 17.41 1 440200## DataUrl.text DataUrl..attrs Title PopularityRank AverageReview
## 1 http://www.youtube.com/ navigable YouTube 2 4.12195
## 2 http://www.facebook.com/#!/JeffDunham?ref=ts navigable Facebook 4 4
## 3 http://twitter.com/#!/nbctheevent navigable Twitter: The Event 13 4
## 4 http://www.imdb.com/ navigable The Internet Movie Database 65 4.5
## 5 http://www.cnn.com/ navigable CNN 98 2.5
## 6 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ navigable BBC Online 107 4
## Description
## 1 User-submitted videos with rating, comments, and contests.
## 2 A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
## 3 Official Twitter account for the series, at @nbcthevent.
## 4 Features plot summaries, reviews, cast lists, and theatre schedules.
## 5 Cable News Network
## 6 The BBC Homepage - Your gateway to BBC Online
## Title Url
## 1 youtube.com m.youtube.com:80/?client=mv-google&p=1&nomobile=1&desktop_uri=/?gl=KE&p=1&client=mv-google&hl=fil&nomobile=1&hl=fil&app=m&gl=KE
## 2 amazon.com alexa.amazon.com:80
## 3 yahoo.com ar.news.qa1p.global.media.yahoo.com:80/blogs/ciencia-bruja/mario-bunge-y-el-detector-fama-cient-fica-171403253.html
## 4 ebay.com community.ebay.com:80/t5/Archive-International-Trading/Can-not-pay-One-or-more-of-the-items-below-cannot-be-purchased/qaq-p/4981427
## 5 yahoo.co.jp blog.olp.yahoo.co.jp:80/archives/20130128_mapupdate.html
## 6 baidu.com anquan.baidu.com:80/bbs/thread-86224-1-1.html