Ping to Search Engines

gistfile1.rbx

# Source: http://seventytwo.co.uk/posts/how-to-reach-enlightenment-and-get-your-site-indexed-by-search-engines

# Switch output on or off
OUTPUT = true

# Sitemap URL
SITEMAP_URL = 'http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml'

# Search engine pings configuration
pings_config = [
  {:name => 'Google',
   :url  => 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap='},
  {:name => 'Yahoo!',
   :url  => 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap='},
  {:name => 'Ask.com',
   :url  => 'http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap='},
  {:name => 'Microsoft Live Search',
   :url  => 'http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap='},
  {:name => 'Moreover.com',
   :url  => 'http://api.moreover.com/ping?u='}
];

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require 'cgi'
require 'net/http'

class Ping
  attr_accessor :pinged_count
  
  def initialize(pings_config)
    # Loop through sites to ping
    @pinged_count = 0;
    pings_config.each do |ping_config|
      # Construct ping URL
      ping_url = ping_config[:url] + CGI::escape(SITEMAP_URL);
      # Execute HTTP request to ping URL
      response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(ping_url))
      # Check HTTP status code
      result = true if response.code == '200'
      # Increment the pinged_count if successfully pinged
      @pinged_count += 1 if result
      # Output ping result
      puts "[#{result ? 'OK' : 'ERROR'}] #{ping_config[:name]}" if OUTPUT
    end
  end
end

# Count number of sites to ping
stat_pings_count = pings_config.size;

# Ping the sites
ping = Ping.new(pings_config)

# Output ping results summary
puts "Pinged #{ping.pinged_count} out of #{stat_pings_count} sites successfully" if OUTPUT

# exit 0 # Needed if script is run from the CLI