Google Blogsearch Ping PHP Script

[mtorbin]

Hey all,

 

I'm in the process of writing a small script that pings blogsearch.google.com via REST client.  The problem is that I don't think that Google works as nicely as they'd like you too believe.  Here's what's going on:

 

We have about seventy or so blogs that we're pinging Google with.  The process basically performs a file_get_contents which returns either a 200 alert or an error.  Immediately after the ping process is complete, I download their changes.xml document to see if any of our requested URLs have been accepted.  Sometimes I get lucky and a few actually make it into the changes.xml file.  However, when I try to search for any of our blogs in their blogsearch, I don't get any responses.

 

My guess is that the blobsearch is being pinged so quickly and so frequently by everyone and their second cousins that it doesn't have time to ingest everything.  Has anyone else had this experience?  If you have any suggestions on how best to deal with this, please let me know.

 

Thanks,

 

  - MT

 

p.s. here is my script if that helps any of you:

<?php
if(file_exists("changes.xml")) {unlink("changes.xml");}
$blogsURL = "[document containing blog links]"; 
//links should be in the following format:
//<google>http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?name=[blog_name]&url=[blog_url]&changesURL=[blog_feed.rss]</google>
$counter = 0;
$blogsData = file_get_contents($blogsURL);
preg_match_all("/(?<=<google>)(.*)(?=<\/google>)/isU", $blogsData, $linksFound);

foreach($linksFound[0] as $link) {
	$counter++;

	$link = substr($link,34,strlen($link));
	$link = "http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?" . getEscapeChars($link,"esc");
	$myURL = $link;

	$myData = file_get_contents($myURL);
	$blogName = substr($link, 39, (strpos($link,"&url")-39));
	$blogName = str_replace("+", " ", str_replace("%27", "'", str_replace("%3A", ":", str_replace("%2C", ",", str_replace("%21", "!", $blogName)))));

	if($myData == "Thanks for the ping.") {print("The url for '" . getEscapeChars($blogName,"unesc") . "' was accepted.\n");}
	else {print("The url for '" . getEscapeChars($blogName,"unesc") . "' was not accepted.\n");}
}
print("Total Blogs: " . $counter . "\n\n");

exec("curl http://blogsearch.google.com/changes.xml?last=900 -o changes.xml");
print("\n");

function getEscapeChars($myChars,$myProcess) {
	if($myProcess == "esc") {$myChars = str_replace(":","%3A",str_replace("/","%2F",str_replace("+","%2B",$myChars)));}
	else {$myChars = str_replace("%3A",":",str_replace("%2F","/",str_replace("%2B"," ",$myChars)));}
	return $myChars;
}
?>

[sundaravadivel]

Hi matt,

 

            Can you help me to do the blog ping in google blog using REST concept.

 

Regards,

Sundaravadivel