giaa: Google Indexing Api Automator

Google Indexing API Automator provides a convenient UI to Google Indexing API. Giia is an open source application based on Node.js + MongoDB; it could be used locally or it could be installed on a server.

• It allows you to easily interface with the Google Indexing API and stores all the requests made.
• It allows you to manage multiple GSC/Api account properties simultaneously and request batch indexing.
• Automates the authorization token request process.

It allows you to optimize the limit of daily requests, with preventive checks, such as:

• requested url domain not configured in GSC.
• url for a URL_UPDATED request that returns a 404/410.
• url for a URL_REMOVED request that returns a 200.
• wrong url.
• redirects following.
• storing the notification time of the request makes the urlNotifications requests redundant.

Installation

Linux or Mac OSX

• node installation:
  • Linux via package manager: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/
  • MacOS: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• mongodb installation:
  • Linux: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/install-on-linux/
  • MacOs: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/
• npm install within project dir:

$ npm install

Docker Compose

You can use docker compose config below to start the app with mongodb

docker-compose.yaml example

version: "3.8"

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/m3m3nto/giaa:latest
    depends_on:
      - mongodb
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    environment:
      - DB_URL=mongodb://giaa:giaa@mongodb/giaa
    volumes:
      - ./cids:/app/config/cids

  mongodb:
    image: mongo:5.0.2
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin
      - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=admin
      - MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE=giaa
    volumes:
      - db:/data/db
      - ./init-mongo.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init.js:ro

volumes:
  db:

Windows

• node installation: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• mongodb installation: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/#install-mdb-edition
• npm install within project dir:

$ npm install

Giaa Startup

Linux or Mac OSX

Within project dir:

$ npm start

Docker Compose

Within docker-compose.yaml dir:

$ docker compose up

Windows

Within project dir:

$ npm start

Giaa basic configuration

• Complete the Indexing API prerequisites: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/prereqs
• At the end of the previous process you should have downloaded one or more public/private key pair file/files in .json format: copy it/them into config/cids
• Customize config/app.js options:
  • database: mongodb connection options,
  • api_daily_quota: indexing api daily quota,
  • cids_dir: cids certificates path,
  • basic_auth: if true activate http basic auth with basic_auth_user and basic_auth_pass credentials,
  • basic_auth_user: http basic auth username,
  • basic_auth_pass: http basic auth password
• Restart app
• Go to http://localhost:3000/config
• Pair your GSC property/ies to your previously downloaded public/private key pair file:

Models

• service_account
  • cif: client id file name
  • domains:
• urls
  • location: { type: String },
  • type: { type: String },
  • response_status_code: { type: String },
  • response_status_message: { type: String },
  • notifytime: { type: Date },
  • status: { type: String },
  • updatedat: { type: Date }

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