Alexa Internet

The Alexa Internet modules allow you to get, and list the URL info, traffic history, category browse, category listings, site linkings in your Alexa Internet account.

Prerequisites

An Alexa Internet account
An AWS account

In order to use Alexa Internet with Make, it is necessary to have an Alexa Internet account. If you do not have one, you can create an Alexa Internet account at https://alexa.com/signup.

Note

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Make scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting Alexa Internet to Make

To connect your Alexa Internet account to Make, you need to obtain your API Key.

Access the Alexa Internet website, https://www.alexa.com/.
Click the API link at the bottom of the website page.
Click Alexa Web Information Service.
Click Continue to Subscribe.
Enter your AWS account credentials to subscribe.
You will receive an activation link to your email ID. Click the link to activate and login to your API account.
Once you log in, copy the API Key to your clipboard.
Go to Make and open the Alexa Internet module's Create a connection dialog.
In the Connection name field, enter a connection name.
In the API Key field, enter the API Key you have copied in step 7 and click Continue.

You have successfully established the connection.

Get

Get URL Info

Retrieves information about the given URL.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Alexa Internet account.
Website Address	Enter the website URL address whose details you want to retrieve.

Get Traffic History

Get the details of the URL's traffic history.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Alexa Internet account.
Website Address	Enter the website URL address whose details you want to retrieve.
Start at	Enter the date in YYYYMMDD format for which you want to retrieve the traffic history details.

Get a Category Browse

Gets the details of category browse by path.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Alexa Internet account.
Path	Enter the path of the category browse whose details you want to retrieve. For example, Top/Arts.

List

List Category Listings

Retrieves a list of all category listings by path.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Alexa Internet account.
Path	Enter the path of the category browse whose details you want to retrieve. For example, Top/Arts.
Sort By	Select the option to sort the category listings: Popularity Title Average Review
Limit	The maximum number of category listings Make should return during one scenario execution cycle.

List Site Linkings

Retrieves a list of all websites linking to a given website.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Alexa Internet account.
Website Address	Enter the website URL address whose site links you want to list.
Limit	The maximum number of site links Make should return during one scenario execution cycle.

Make an API Call

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Alexa Internet account.
Method	Select the HTTP method you want to use: GET to retrieve information for an entry POST to create a new entry. PUT to update/replace an existing entry. PATCH to make a partial entry update. DELETE to delete an entry.
Headers	Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.
Query String	Enter the request query string.
Body	Enter the body content for your API call.

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Alexa Internet API Documentation.

Example - Get details from the Site

Following API call returns the information requested from the site:

Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body.

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