Getting Google's Toolbar PageRank programmatically with Ruby

Question

This well documented answer no longer appears to work. The response doesn't contain the /Rank_1:\d:(\d+)/ pattern.

I'm trying this with ruby-1.8.7. Interestingly, if I do it with ruby-1.9.2 I get a 403 Forbidden error using the same code.

Answer 1

You can use PageRankr gem.

Usage example:

require 'page_rankr'
PageRankr.ranks('http://google.com', :google)

Which returns hash

{:google=>9}