Comments on: Build your own WordTracker

By: Tosha Vleming

Tosha Vleming — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:52:30 +0000

a lot of fantastic info here. A+

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:53 +0000

Ha! I got them. Do not have exact code yet, but XML data can be easily retrived with FireFox with Live HTTP Headers plugin.

Just go to the SearchSpy page and launch Live HTTP Headers wait some time until SearchSpy will ask for data (do not do anything in other tabs until something will show in Live HTTP Headers window).

When you get some headers click button Replay, new window will open. In it also click Replay and you will be taken to the page with XML results.

Making a software which would retrive this data, will be a bit hard, because they are using JSON, Cookies and probably some other stuff to make data harvesting really complicated.

@John thanks for the link but it is not useful now, becuase he also uses the method i described in this post.

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:58:46 +0000

He he …. I found that script too, and moved on! Meant nothing to me but just in case you haven’t seen it Greg the link is

http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/save-results-from-dogpile-search-spy.php

And many thanks for replying – it seems increasingly rare these days….

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:06:21 +0000

Hi Joey, i will do my best to get this data out of DogPile

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:48:15 +0000

Greg, I, too, would love to see an update on the Dogpile SearchSpy situation. There is a guy who built a script for Lynix systems floating around but that means nothing to me. I look forward to your update!

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:04:12 +0000

Hi John,
i did not work on it since they changed their system.

However, i am still going to do that, i will start writing some quality posts when i will finally get my degree ;> it should be done within 2 or three weeks.

As for firefox plugin there are some good resources on this topic, but maybe i will consider writing one by myself.

By: John

John — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:29:53 +0000

Hi Greg,

Love your blog and have learned quite a bit, I now wish to code my “first wordpress plugin” and would love it to be a “Wordtracker Plugin”… so I’m wondering if you got any further with the html to capture the keywords…..

I had wanted to write a Firefox plug-in but haven’t managed to find a good tutorial on that hint hint!!

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:13:46 +0000

Wow, it looks like they really made it complicated, currently i have no other idea how to get it working again, i will have to dig deeper into their HTML.

However one thing is sure, if HTML page can get those results, then so can any other application.

I am a bit busy right now but when i will have some time then i will take a look at it – and probably write another post on this topic