Internet of Things

Alexa Internet

10min
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 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 field description 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 field description 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 field description 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 description 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 make execution cycle list site linkings retrieves a list of all websites linking to a given website description 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 make execution cycle make an api call performs an arbitrary authorized api call description 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 for the list of available endpoints, refer to the alexa internet api documentation 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 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