WebPage category data API use case.
Very often as SEO professionals we need to check Websites' categorization data for certain domain and there is a very useful online service for web developers and SEO professionals on "WhoisXML API" that
provides Domain & IP Data Intelligence for Greater Enterprise Security and RESTful APIs that we will use.
Using it's APIs you can perform many handy data requests, for example you can Websites' category data for a certain website - don't forget to get your API KEY.
You will obtain ready to use parsed contact categorization using machine learning (ML) engine which scans a website’s content and meta tags and
extracts text to classify the site and assign the top Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) categories applicable to it with associated confidence scores with help of natural language processing (NLP).
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2024-07-26 by Andrey BRATUS, Senior Data Analyst.
Python code to get Website categorization data via API:
Website categorization data output:
This Python script below will use information from "WhoisXML API" and provide you a result in a JSON format without the need to use a web browser.
Getting websites' category data can be easily automated now !
# Website Categorization API USE
import requests
website = 'python-code.pro'
APIKEY ='at_ZUVkrukr4Uhhhsfq2j6dyv2VhFGWYV'
categorizationInfoURL = f'https://website-categorization.whoisxmlapi.com/api/v2?apiKey={APIKEY}&domainName={website}'
r = requests.get(categorizationInfoURL)
categorizationInfo = r.json()
print(f'Categorization Info for {website} domain.\n')
categorizationInfo
Categorization Info for python-code.pro domain.
{'categories': [{'tier1': {'confidence': 0.9762207679006201,
'id': 'IAB-596',
'name': 'Technology & Computing'},
'tier2': {'confidence': 0.6230869365434839,
'id': 'IAB-619',
'name': 'Internet'}},
{'tier1': {'confidence': 0.9762207679006201,
'id': 'IAB-52',
'name': 'Business and Finance'},
'tier2': {'confidence': 0.6230869365434839,
'id': 'IAB-99',
'name': 'Information Services Industry'}},
{'tier1': {'confidence': 0.9762207679006201,
'id': 'IAB-52',
'name': 'Business and Finance'},
'tier2': {'confidence': 0.6230869365434839,
'id': 'IAB-115',
'name': 'Technology Industry'}},
{'tier1': {'confidence': 0.9762207679006201,
'id': 'IAB-52',
'name': 'Business and Finance'},
'tier2': {'confidence': 0.6230869365434839,
'id': 'IAB-116',
'name': 'Telecommunications Industry'}}],
'domainName': 'python-code.pro',
'websiteResponded': True}