Re: web tracking codes

[Aaron <subdriven () gmail com>]

Robin,

Would something like this be what you're looking for?
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

They track the trackers. Maybe the code there will be helpful? I've
not looked into it other than using the plugin.

Aaron

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> On 1 November 2012 14:18, Tim Tomes <tjt1980 () gmail com> wrote:
> > Are you trying to do what ewhois.com does with the analytics and adsense IDs?
>
> Kind of, but in a way where you hold the database and tell it which
> sites to index so you are not limited to just what the online sites
> have pre-crawled.
>
> Robin
>
> > 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
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Pauldotcom mailing list
> > > Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com
> > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tim Tomes
> > http://lanmaster53.com/
> > _______________________________________________
> > Pauldotcom mailing list
> > Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com
> > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
> _______________________________________________
> Pauldotcom mailing list
> Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com
> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
_______________________________________________
Pauldotcom mailing list
Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com
http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com