Querying Alexa Site API and parsing XML

Very useful to see how to handle XML responses. Looks like Alexa are no longer serving stats responses to the URL used in the example though.

Here's the code that's running in production right now:

def fetch_alexa(profile) do
  if profile.url do
    %{body: body} = HTTPoison.get!("data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&url=#{profile.url}")
    body |> xpath(~x"//POPULARITY/@TEXT"s) || "unranked"
  end
end

You can see it here: https://statwatch.me/profiles/alchemist

Nice one again ! Thanks !