Google Pagerank Pepper for Mint: Prank

January 30, 2007 – 6:55 pm

For those that like to track Google Pageranking for their pages comes this new pepper. I had plenty of time to think on it today while waiting in court to have my speeding ticket resolved. Luckily I got the 4 point ticket reduced to 2 points with a doubled fine. Yay.

This pepper simply displays the Pagerank for each of the top popular pages. The number of pages displayed comes from the default pepper’s rows per pane setting. Knowing that Google gets cranky about constant requests for pageranks, I figured a little caching was in order. Since pagerank does not change so often, caching is set for 7 days. I don’t recommend changing this, but the setting is in the code and if there is enough demand I can add a pulldown to the preference pane.

This has been created for Mint 1 since I don’t have Mint 2 yet, but it doesn’t do anything exotic, so it should still work. Once I have the new Mint installed, I’ll take care of any errors that anyone finds.

You can pick up the new pepper at http://www.shokk.com/downloads/prank.zip

Prank

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Mike Haugland 1 year ago 1 point
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The ZIP file doesn’t seem to be opening on my Mac. It says it’s not compressed or encoded. Could you doublecheck to see if it opens for you?

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Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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It does indeed uncompress…

<pre>
[root@chewbacca prank]#unzip -l /web/shokk/downloads/prank.zip
Archive: /web/shokk/downloads/prank.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
0 01-30-07 11:36 ernieoporto/
0 01-30-07 18:21 ernieoporto/prank/
4424 01-30-07 18:21 ernieoporto/prank/class.php
218 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr1.gif
236 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr10.gif
221 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr2.gif
225 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr3.gif
226 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr4.gif
229 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr5.gif
227 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr6.gif
226 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr7.gif
229 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr8.gif
232 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr9.gif
156 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/print.gif
213 01-30-07 12:27 ernieoporto/prank/pr0.gif
6934 01-30-07 18:18 ernieoporto/prank/pagerank.php
0 01-30-07 18:23 ernieoporto/prank/cache/
-------- -------
13996 17 files

</pre>

http://www.shokk.com/blog/

R Mitchell 1 year ago 1 point
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Doesn’t uncompress for me either. Using latest version of Safari on the latest version of OS X.

Kyle Rove 1 year ago 1 point
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No go here on OS X:

<pre>$ unzip prank.zip
Archive: prank.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of prank.zip or
prank.zip.zip, and cannot find prank.zip.ZIP, period.</pre>

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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I don’t have a Mac for testing, so if anyone wants to donate one… =)

Anyway, I’ve made a new one in the same location, only using Windows instead of Red Hat to make the zip file. Please let me know if this one is any better.

http://www.shokk.com/blog/

R Mitchell 1 year ago 1 point
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Still no go here in Safari or Firefox.

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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Let’s try something different: http://www.shokk.com/downloads/prank.tar.gz

http://www.shokk.com/blog/

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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OK I’ve updated prank.zip to version 1.01 to include some fixes and the prNA.gif. I’ve also added the preferences pane to allow you to change the cache time. Same URL as before for the zip file. Anyone having trouble with the zip can get the tar.gz version from the above link.

http://www.shokk.com/blog/

Mike Haugland 1 year ago 1 point
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Decompression is still failing on the new ZIP and the TAR.GZ file.

matthew 1 year ago 1 point
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Download never completes, hence it wont decompress. Maybe the original is corrupt.

http://www.somefoolwitha.com

kopfkribbeln 1 year ago 1 point
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Doesn’t work for me eather!

Dirk Ginader 1 year ago 1 point
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Same Effect for me. After the download is complete it fails to unpack (either zip or tarball). I’m using firefox 2 and winrar on WIN2000 and never had any problem like this

http://blog.ginader.de

Markus 1 year ago 1 point
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maybe the link is broken?

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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Yes, I am seeing the archive show as invalid now that I check from work. I’ll find another way to distribute this to everyone.

http://www.shokk.com/blog

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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Fixed! Seems to have been a problem with the DLoads pepper. I was still on 0.70 for some reason and just updated it to 0.72. Still no help.

I’ve changed it over to Download Counter for tracking and verified that it’s all working again. Sorry for the download trouble, guys.

http://www.shokk.com/blog

R Mitchell 1 year ago 1 point
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Got it installed. Now the page rank image is not displaying. Just the ? for missing image. If I try to click and open that image in a new window, the address it shows is http://www.myaddress.com/mint/pepper/ernieoporto/prank/prNA.gif

I noticed that in your file, prNA is a jpg instead of a gif.

However, I know that some of pages have ranks. Surely everything shouldn’t be listed as NA. :(

Thanks for releasing this by the way. Cool idea. I’m sure the kinks will be ironed out shortly.

R Mitchell 1 year ago 1 point
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Okay, I think I see what the issue is with the page rank. I think I have google set up to prefer my site listed as www.mysite.com, but mint is stripping the www out of all the links so that what you are checking is mysite.com. Whereas www.mysite.com ends up with a paltry 2, mysite.com gets a 0.

Tanc 1 year ago 1 point
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Yep, can’t decompress either on a Mac, using various different utilities. Can you compress it with some other program?

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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Smacks forehead.
OK I changed the jpg to a gif.
Version number is up to 102.

Please look into adding something like the following to your web site’s root .htaccess so that anyone going to mysite.com gets redirected to www.mysite.com. This is a known SEO issue.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,NC]

or

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainname\.com

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomainname/$1 [R=permanent,L]

http://www.shokk.com/blog

Elliott Cable 1 year ago 1 point
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http://no-www.org/

Check it out. Maybe you’ll learn something.

WWW is evil! Don’t support it!

http://e.avxw.com/

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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And version 1.03 is now up to fix a problem that collided with Fresh Mint and probably broke a lot of other things.

http://www.shokk.com/blog/

Kyle Korleski 1 year ago 1 point
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Does it work with Mint 2?

http://thedarkestevil.com/

Ernie Oporto 1 year ago 1 point
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Don’t know yet. I have a Mint 2 license, but I haven’t installed it yet as I’m waiting for more bug fixes and conversions of current peppers. It never hurts to install it and find out.

http://www.shokk.com/blog

Jamie Huskisson 1 year ago 1 point
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This seems to be working perfectly fine with my Mint 2 installation :) Will let you know if anything goes wrong..

http://www.jhuskisson.com

Ozzpot 1 year ago 1 point
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I have had this installed on my Mint 2 for a few days now. Every page has the NA graphic, even though the site is over a year old and I know all the pages are top ranked. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how I could fix it?

Please bear in mind I know squat about the under-the-hood workings of this internet thing. Installing Mint was a confusing foray into the unknown for me. I have no idea what an htaccess is, what it does, or which way up I would have to hold it to make it work.

Is there anything simple I can do to get this working?

Thanks in advance for any help, and for making this pepper!

Tanc 1 year ago 1 point
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I also get an NA graphic for each page on Mint 2. Not sure what is up with this pepper…

Ozzpot 1 year ago 1 point
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Thanks for the reply Ernie, but I tried unchecking the “Trim www and index.* from urls”, but it made no difference.

I’d love to try the htaccess thing, but like I said, I have no idea what that is, what it does, and where I’d find it. I know almost nothing about the code side of webmastering. I can mess around with CSS, make a site look pretty much how I want, but when it comes to databases, php, htaccess, (whatever the heck those things are), I am literally clueless. You might as well be speaking Japanese!

Can you tell me where this htaccess thing is, and exactly what I need to do to it?

Thanks. :)

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