grank

Find your google index rank using this bash script.

Usage

	./grank.sh [-a] [ -h host ] [ -l locale ] [ url ] [ search_term ... ]

Where url is the url too look for in the google index and search_term is the search term to look for.
You can add multiple search terms, they will get concatenated as a query string using the + delimitor.

Options

-a Use this flag if you want the script to continue searching through all 1000 first google results.
-h specify the host to use (default is 'google.com', you can use other domains such as 'google.fr', google.it'...)
-l is the locale to use (default is 'en', you can any other locale supported by google such as 'fr', 'it'...)

Example

	./grank.sh http://www.urbandictionary.com get a life

Will search for urbandictionary.com's position here :
http://www.google.com/search?q=get+a+life

Alternatively, just launch the script without parameters, it will launch in interactive mode and ask you for the url and search terms, using the default host and locale.

MacOS users

If you get this error:

	sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

Type those commands, or add them to your ~/.bash_profile if you don't want to do that everytime you restart your terminal:

	export LC_CTYPE=C
	export LANG=C

Alternatively, installing gnu-sed should definitely improve you overall scripting experience on MacOS.

Warning

Google doesn't like bots scraping its index, if you make too many queries you will be blocked.
The server will return a 503 error (service unavailable).

Credits

Initial (2008) script by Mike Golvach - Original script here

Heavily tweaked by Mathieu Jouhet (@daformat)

License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License