The code is almost as easy as the code to display your FeedBurner subscribers or your last tweet. You'll need to create an account with Technorati and then get your API key. That page will also tell you how much queries you've made that day, and what your daily allowance is.

This is the code, including caching:

$technorati = get_option("technorati");
if ($technorati['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() - 600 ) ) {
	$apikey 	= "apikey";
	$endpoint 	= "http://api.technorati.com/cosmos?key=".$apikey;
	$request 	= $endpoint."&url=yoast.com&limit=10";
	$snoopy 	= new Snoopy;
	$result 	= $snoopy->fetch($request);
	if ($result) {
		$pattern1 = '/<inboundblogs>([0-9]+)<\/inboundblogs>/';
		$pattern2 = '/<inboundlinks>([0-9]+)<\/inboundlinks>/';
		$pattern3 = '/<rank>([0-9]+)<\/rank>/';
		preg_match($pattern1, $snoopy->results, $matches);
		preg_match($pattern2, $snoopy->results, $matches2);
		preg_match($pattern3, $snoopy->results, $matches3);
		$technorati['inboundblogs'] = number_format($matches[1]);
		$technorati['inboundlinks'] = number_format($matches2[1]);
		$technorati['rank'] 	= number_format($matches3[1]);
		$technorati['lastcheck']= mktime();
		update_option("technorati",$technorati);
	}
}
echo "<h3>Technorati</h3>";
echo "<p>".$technorati['inboundblogs']." blogs linked
	".$technorati['inboundlinks']." times in the last 6 months,
	ranking it as ".$technorati['rank']." among all blogs.</p>";

That's it! Let me know if you've got any questions!

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Your Technorati Authority is simply the number of unique blogs linking to your blog over the last 6 months. In my case, yoast.com hasn't been around for 6 months yet, and before that, it was joostdevalk.nl. Of course, joostdevalk.nl has been properly 301 redirected to yoast.com, and has thus taken over all those rankings in all search engines. But not in Technorati.

Technorati choses not to follow 301 redirects, and because of that, I'm now stuck with two different authority scores. At this point, joostdevalk.nl has an authority of 1,520, ranking # 1,271 in Technorati. Yoast.com has an authority of 590, ranking # 5,548. This should be combined of course, in which case I'd have an authority of 2,110, and would almost rank in the top 500!

The stupidest thing? Technorati has followed the redirect, because the page for joostdevalk.nl reflects my new title, and calls it yoast.

Why I even bother? Well because I like the bragging rights associated with having a Technorati top 1,000 blog, and because all sorts of "top blog listings" like the AdAge 150, use Technorati in their calculation of your ranking, and this caused me to drop rapidly.

So, I call upon thee, Technorati, to FIX THIS!

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javascript:(function(){var%20r=escape(window.location);document.location='http://technorati.com/ping/?url='+r;})();

Now you can easily ping those blogs linking to you, and increase your Technorati ranking!

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The idea is simple: compile a list of blogs that link to you, and that aren't indexed by Technorati. Then ping Technorati with all those pages. The first post wanted you to do a manual ping on all of them, which is way too much work.

Sebastian created a tool with which you can ping multiple URL's at once, making the process a lot faster. Now the next step is obvious: if you can automate pinging, all you have to do is scrape other search engines, and ping Technorati with all the content it's unaware of. That gives you a pretty big advantage.

You've guessed it: I've done that. It will be available within a few weeks. Something will be different though: this will be a for pay tool part of a kit called the Blog Marketer's Toolkit. Why? Because if everybody has this plugin, there's no advantage to the people using it anymore, which is why I will only be making it available to a limited number of people. And of course, I like to make a bit of money as well sometimes :)

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I then contacted the developer team and got a great fast response from Ian Kallen, and we've been looking together at a way to get this to work without bashing the hell (my words) out of their servers. Up till now that didn't work, and they have asked me to remove the script for now.

The official statement: "The query pattern and absence of caching exhibits an operational pattern that we can't presently support. However, we're happy to work with you in the days ahead to provide a scalable interface to support this functionality."

Let's see what comes of that! For now, I'm taking the script down.

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Wikipedia describes an API as: 'An application programming interface (API) is the interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for services to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them.'

Now these API's are super useful, I use them in several of my scripts and have great fun with them. I used the Technorati API, for instance, in the first version of the Technorati rank and link count Greasemonkey script I wrote. This was fast, and worked quite well for a while, so I was very happy. After a few hours of browsing though, it stopped working. The error I got was 'You have used up your daily allotment of Technorati API queries.'

Now I can't understand why they'd want to limit use of the API like that. Why not? Well, now that I have decided to not use the API (after all how much is 500 queries when you distribute this script to 100+ people?), I'm left with no other choice but to scrape the content of their normal site. This costs them way and way more bandwidth, and it's significantly slower. That's not much of a service is it? Remember: I do want to use their services! I want to know the Technorati rank for each page I'm visiting, that's a good sign for them, isn't it?

So, please Technorati: get rid of that maximum number of queries. Oh and Google and Yahoo!, if you're listening? Do the same, please!

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The first implementation I did used a script on my server, this version does it completely client side, using the wonderful GM_xmlhttpRequest function and some regexes.

So, check it out: Technorati rank and link count script (script removed at the behest of Technorati).

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