alexa-top-sites

Scrape Alexa 'Top' pages for some popular sites for URL testing.

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

alexa-top-sites

Scrape Alexa "Top" pages for some popular sites for URL testing.

Why?

Because you want to test some top sites, and don't want to go through an API because you only need a few URLs.

NOTE: At most, this API will probably only return 25 results, which seems to be the default page size of Alexa pages.

I wouldn't recommend using this garbage API for anything serious (like production sites) since it could easily break if Alexa ever changes their HTML/CSS. You're much better off using their APIs directly. I quickly built this :poop: for testing.

Installation:

$ npm i alexa-top-sites -S

Usage:

By Categories:

Note that the category name is very case specific. You should probably browse the Alexa site and find the specific URL you want and use that: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Sports.

const { byCategory } = require('alexa-top-sites');

byCategory('Sports')
  .then((res) => console.log(JSON.stringify(res, null, 2)))
  .catch((err) => console.error(err.message));
OUTPUT: 
{
  "category": "Sports",
  "url": "http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Sports",
  "sites": [
    "http://sports.yahoo.com",
    "http://www.nbcolympics.com/",
    "http://www.espncricinfo.com/",
    "http://www.goal.com/",
    "http://www.nfl.com/",
    "http://www.cbssports.com/",
    "http://bleacherreport.com",
    "https://www.premierleague.com/",
    "http://www.espn.com/",
    "http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com",
    "http://www.livescore.com/",
    "http://www.skysports.com/",
    "http://www.cricbuzz.com/",
    "http://deadspin.com",
    "https://www.strava.com/",
    "http://mlb.mlb.com/home",
    "http://www.nbcsports.com/",
    "http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics",
    "http://www.sbnation.com/",
    "http://www.foxsports.com/",
    "https://www.rei.com/",
    "http://www.skysports.com/football",
    "http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com",
    "http://www.flashscore.com/",
    "http://www.si.com/"
  ]
}

By Countries:

const { byCountry } = require('alexa-top-sites');

byCountry('CA') // Canada
  .then((res) => console.log(JSON.stringify(res, null, 2)))
  .catch((err) => console.error(err));
Output: 
{
  "country": "CA",
  "url": "http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CA",
  "sites": [
    "http://google.ca",
    "http://youtube.com",
    "http://facebook.com",
    "http://google.com",
    "http://yahoo.com",
    "http://live.com",
    "http://msn.com",
    "http://wikipedia.org",
    "http://amazon.ca",
    "http://kijiji.ca",
    "http://bing.com",
    "http://twitter.com",
    "http://reddit.com",
    "http://netflix.com",
    "http://cbc.ca",
    "http://amazon.com",
    "http://linkedin.com",
    "http://royalbank.com",
    "http://instagram.com",
    "http://diply.com",
    "http://td.com",
    "http://pinterest.com",
    "http://imgur.com",
    "http://ebay.ca",
    "http://tumblr.com"
  ]
}

Global:

const alexa = require('alexa-top-sites');

alexa.global()
  .then((res) => console.log(JSON.stringify(res, null, 2)))
  .catch((err) => console.error(err));
Output: 
{
  "url": "http://www.alexa.com/topsites",
  "sites": [
    "http://google.com",
    "http://youtube.com",
    "http://facebook.com",
    "http://baidu.com",
    "http://yahoo.com",
    "http://amazon.com",
    "http://wikipedia.org",
    "http://qq.com",
    "http://google.co.in",
    "http://twitter.com",
    "http://live.com",
    "http://taobao.com",
    "http://google.co.jp",
    "http://bing.com",
    "http://weibo.com",
    "http://instagram.com",
    "http://sina.com.cn",
    "http://vk.com",
    "http://yahoo.co.jp",
    "http://msn.com",
    "http://linkedin.com",
    "http://yandex.ru",
    "http://google.de",
    "http://hao123.com",
    "http://google.co.uk"
  ]
}

Paged results:

Retrieve the first X pages of results for a category or country:

const { getPages, byCategory } = require('alexa-top-sites');

// Get the first 10 pages (250 results) of http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Internet
getPages(byCategory, 'Computers/Internet', 10)
  .then((res) => console.log(JSON.stringify(res, null, 2)))
  .catch((err) => console.error(err.message));
Output: 
[
  "http://google.com",
  "https://www.youtube.com/",
  "https://www.facebook.com/",
  "https://mail.google.com/",
  "http://yahoo.com",
  "https://twitter.com/",
  "http://mail.yahoo.com",
  "https://www.bing.com/",
  "http://search.yahoo.com",
  "https://www.linkedin.com/",
  "http://msn.com",
  "https://www.pinterest.com/",
  "http://wordpress.com",
  "http://tumblr.com",
  "http://imgur.com",
  ...
]