Hi,

I need to retrieve the PageRank of some websites. I've searched and it seems the only way it can be retrieved is through the Google toolbar.

I've now installed this toolbar, and the PageRank shows as a 'mouse over' text from the relative button on the toolbar.

Can you please tell me some approach and/or classes I need to use to extract this rank through Java code? Is there some class that can read toolbar contents?

Thanks.

 

 

Meanwhile, I found a package for my purposes: http://www.temesoft.com/google-pagerank-api.jsp

However, I'm getting this error when I run it:

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:168)
	at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
	at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:258)
	at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:317)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:666)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:611)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:631)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1000)
	at PageRankService.getPR(PageRankService.java:79)
	at PageRankService.main(PageRankService.java:109)
	at __SHELL0.run(__SHELL0.java:7)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at bluej.runtime.ExecServer$3.run(ExecServer.java:792)

Does anyone knows what it means?

 

 

It means the server disconnected rather than responding to your request.

This may be by design; if it's a Google site you're connecting to then most likely the terms of service don't permit bots.