I have a web page which embeds several parts of a Google Spreadsheet
http://nkelsey.x10.mx/GTC/Members_Area/WinterSinglesLeague/singlesleaguetablesorig.html
This page has worked for years unaltered. We just edit the spreadsheet and the web pages updates automatically.... only for the last few weeks we have been encountering 'Google Docs encountered an error' messages where the parts of the spreadsheet should be.
I did raise the issue with Google One support but after clarifying the issue after a few hours the report was 'closed' by Google with no response!
I tried making a copy of the spreadsheet and embedding that - again Google Errors were observed.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
I have checked the 'Share' on the spreadsheet and it is correctly set to 'View' and the sheet is 'published'. There are no 'hidden' columns or rows.
Thanks in anticipation
Looking at the page source, it appears that the embedded link does not match the spreadsheet. I would suggest trying to replace that link with the one from File > Publish to the web > Embed, carrying over the parameters listed on the Docs Editors help page from the original URL.
I've been trying to update my dead blog Devilish Heels but I'm running into a problem with Twitter. New tweets and old tweets all say data:blog.metaDescription. I don't know much about Twitter, and can't seem to find a way to fix or remove that portion.
I have spent five hours searching the net and adding one twitter card after another to my blog with my blog and twitter info, but nothing changes. (Pretty sure I need to reset template at this point) I don't know what else to do. I tried all the different solutions from others who had similar issues but nothing is working for me.
My Blog
My Twitter
I'm very new to web development and this seems like a basic question, so perhaps I just lack the correct terminology to search it on Google.
On my site I plan to have many dynamically generated pages, based off data in a MySQL server, and I would like to know which ones people have been visiting the most, in say, the last 24 hours, so that I can place these most popular page on the front page of the site. How would I/would I be able to accomplish this in a Rails application.
What you're looking for is a web analytics solution to analyze your traffic, and possibly your marketing effectiveness. Here are some of the most prominent services you could use with your website:
Google Analytics
Chartbeat
Reinvigorate
HaveAMint
GetClicky
Piwik
Woopra
Personally, I use Google Analytics as its setup is darn simple: configure your account, add a Javascript snippet on each of the pages you want to track, and you're done.
You could also look out for web analytics software that you would host. All in all, take a look at this Wikipedia page for more information.
In brief: my site is not being indexed by Google. Google has a lot of docs in their FAQ but they do not tell how long it takes until a site is indexed: hours? days? weeks? (the latter would be an explaination, the site is online for just a week).
What I did until now:
registered with Google Webmastertools and validated both without and with www.
put my site's atom feed to sitemaps in the Webmastertools and provided a basic textfile with 5 basic urls of the site (main, contact, about, ...) --> show 19 urls, 0 indexed.
robots.txt set to all (last fetched by google 4 hours ago) [User-agent: * Allow: / ]
Webmastertools "fetch as google bot" tested ok
The site is a Rails site and pretty accessible. It consists mostly of articles so there should not be any problem to fetch it for google (http://www.communityguides.eu).
Clearly there are no sites with high pagerank linking to it, however, my question is about indexing at all. Did I forget something or do I just have to be patient?
It's definitely more weeks than days. Keep patient, it might take several week for a first index!
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I have a video blog for which I would like to track certain statistics, including stats from Google Analytics, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
The problem is that the various stats are on different websites, which require different logins, etc. It takes a long time to actually view everything. I am looking for a way to be able to aggregate all of this information in one place.
I have searched quite a bit on Google, Mashable, Delicious, etc and I haven't found any websites that do what I want. Are my searching skills bad, or does this really not exist?
The data in which I am interested appears to be available in readily parsable forms (see below), but I am hesitant to write an app to do this myself, because of an already more than full workload.
Data I want to aggregate:
Google Analytics -- tracking on my website
number of visitors
traffic sources
use Data Export API -- http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataDeveloperGuide.html
Twitter
number of followers
number of retweets
new # messages
new direct messages
Twitter API -- (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
Facebook fan page
number of fans
new posts on wall
Facebook API -- (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
Tumblr
number of followers
Video
number of views
view location
number of comments
number of channel subscribers
do this for
YouTube -- CSV report available at (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
MetaCritic
Feed burner (RSS)
number of subscribers
CSV report available at (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
SEO stuff
Google PageRank
Alexa rankings
So is there an app that does this already, or should I do this myself? I would like a quick and dirty way to do this -- I was thinking something like Yahoo pipes, but it appears to not be up to the task. I could probably get it done in Grails, but that might be more trouble than it's worth. Other ideas?
I have a better answer. YQL has community data tables for all the services you listed. You can pull in all the different values through their API.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
You could try creating a Google Spreadsheet and use their external data import tools.
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75507
The biggest problem will probably be access authenticated APIs.
Presumably that all of the services above has fashioned a statistics API, I would advice you to write it yourself rather than battling an integration war with a bunch of aggregating programs.
Here's an iphone app that does at least a bit of this:
http://ego-app.com/
I don't know a single tool that can do this, off the top of my head. But you can chain a few tools together to do this.
1- If you're on Windows, use Website Watcher. It has a macro-recording tool to login a webpage, a regex-based tool to filter content and a scripting language that let you email/export the result. IMO, this will let you extract data from just any web page/RSS/forums.
2- Then use Dropbox to automatically upload the result files to your Dropbox's public folder (because you will need the public link to these file).
3- Use Yahoo Pipes to consolidate/aggregate the result files.
I suggest you try Metricly http://metricly.com/ that is natively intergating Facebook & Google Analytics data. It is extensible by nature and with a little bit of tweaking you can push any meric to it. I enjoy it.
I originally suggested this as an edit to abraham's answer but it was rejected:
Mikael Thuneberg has written a freely available google script for pulling GA data into Google Docs using the GA API: http://www.automateanalytics.com/2010/04/google-analytics-data-to-google-docs.html
I use it for creating client dashboards all the time. I suspect there may be others for pulling in twitter/facebook data etc.
And Google have just released this tool for importing GA data into Google Docs:
http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/automate-google-analytics-reporting.html
Also see SEOTools for Excel which can pull some facebook and twitter data as well as Google Analytics through the API.
YouTube has a public API http://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics to retrieve reports for your videos and channels.