Re: web tracking codes

[Tim Tomes <tjt1980 () gmail com>]

Are you trying to do what ewhois.com does with the analytics and adsense IDs?

I was trying to script the same thing. However, parsing all of that
data was a pain considering a developer can implement it several
different ways. Sites like ewhois.com must have access to some sort of
API for collecting that data. Let me know how it goes, because if you
succeed, I'd like to bring you in on a project I am working on.


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> I'm building a tool to scrape websites and pull out tracking codes so
> I can see which sites are related based on who is tracking them.
>
> Google codes are good for this as they identify the tracker not the
> site, Woopra tracking identifies the domain not the tracker so there
> is no way back to the person/group tracking the site. What other web
> tracking systems are out there which can be used to identify the
> tracker rather than the site?
>
> In case that doesn't make sense, this is Woopra code:
>
> function woopraReady(tracker){
>     tracker.setDomain('yourdomain.com');
>     tracker.setIdleTimeout(300000);
>     tracker.track();
> }
>
> which identifies "yourdomain.com" but this is google
>
> try {
> var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7503551-1");
> pageTracker._trackPageview();
> } catch(err) {}
>
> which identifies the tracker.
>
> Robin
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