I went to statsaholic to get my ‘daily alexa kick’ last night, and I found out that Alexa has suddenly started bullying Statsaholic, and the graphs are not visible on Statsaholic site anymore. Moreover, the graphs provided by the widgets which are provided by Alexa themselves have stopped working.
There is a link to Ron’s version of the whole story here. Doesn’t Alexa have a blog? Dumbasses.
Alexa’s charts arent’ available in the official API given out by the site. According to Ron’s blog it looks like Alexa were planning to start charging for the graphs API’s but that hasn’t happened. They are just blocking them. (Saying Go home Ron, play with your own toys)
But Ron is accepting the challenge. He says on his blog
As I was finishing this, I got an email letting me know that, once again, Alexa was blocking traffic graphs on Statsaholic. So, once again, I went and coded around the block. While I can keep this up for a long time (several kind souls donated hundreds of websites to use for the graph serving referers), I’d rather we could come to some kind of terms and stop the arms race.
Best of luck, may we have Statsaholic back soon.
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