Oct
08
2007
Showoff Rankings Problems
Posted by Jon Lee in Personal, tags: Alexa, amazon, Amazon Web Service, showoff-rankings
For those of you using my Showoff Rankings widget you may have noticed that Alexa traffic rankings don’t show up. I’m well aware of this and I have been working on a fix.
This is due to Alexa rejecting my XML requests, I can only guess that Amazon (who owns Alexa) is requiring people to use their Amazon Web Service to access Alexa data for a cost. I’m currently working on a workaround but if that doesn’t work then I would be willing to shell out a few bucks for the paid service.
Stay tuned for more info!
Update: It has now been fixed — I’m using Amazon’s paid web service since they’ve blocked all my IPs from accessing their free XML data…ÂÂ
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