I will no longer be hosting Spyjax.
It’s been fun and very interesting, but it’s time to call it quits. Spyjax is just a side project but it’s eating up server power so I’ve decided to turn it off. I kicked around the idea of turning into a real service / business but I’m just not that interested in it.
Thank You For Commenting and Linking!
It’s been really fun reading everyone’s comments here and on all the blogs that wrote about Spyjax. There were some great discussions around privacy and ethics. Some of the best comments where on the SEO Book blog: Spy on Visitor Browsing History for Competitive Research.
Full Source Code Available
Because I’ve decided to shutdown the service I’m giving away all the code as open source. Anyone can install the Spyjax service on their server. Someone else could even start the service up and let others user it. You can download the source here: Spyjax Source Code.
Spyjax uses PHP and MySQL so most web servers should be able to run it. You’ll need to do a little bit of configuration, mainly in the config.php file. There might be a place or two where you need to put your email address for sign up and feedback emails to work correctly. Also the urls.php file needs your MySQL database host, user name, and password. The service assumes that it’s using a database named “spyjax”. The schema for the database can be found in spyjax.sql. If you have any questions about how to install it contact me using the form on over here.
4,808,202 URLs Were Found
While Spyjax was running it tracked 282,542 visitors and collected 4,802,202 URLs from their browser history. Here’s the top 50 URLs found by Spyjax:
- http://www.google.com - 59927
- http://www.yahoo.com - 45591
- http://www.myspace.com - 29869
- http://www.youtube.com - 27057
- http://www.msn.com - 22045
- http://www.hotmail.com - 16969
- http://www.ebay.com - 16123
- http://www.facebook.com - 13855
- http://www.mapquest.com - 11689
- http://www.cnn.com - 9285
- http://www.weather.com - 8634
- http://www.amazon.com - 7852
- http://www.wikipedia.org - 7401
- http://www.aol.com - 7381
- http://www.imdb.com - 6023
- http://www.walmart.com - 5826
- http://www.gmail.com - 5740
- http://www.apple.com - 5549
- http://www.flickr.com - 5197
- http://www.chase.com - 5053
- http://www.ask.com - 4919
- http://www.google.co.uk - 4876
- http://www.bestbuy.com - 4682
- http://www.usps.com - 4607
- http://www.craigslist.org - 4555
- http://www.download.com - 4474
- http://www.digg.com - 4389
- http://www.paypal.com - 4038
- http://www.dell.com - 3944
- http://www.bankofamerica.com - 3846
- http://www.bbc.co.uk - 3798
- http://www.southwest.com - 3753
- http://www.adobe.com - 3704
- http://www.comcast.net - 3657
- http://www.t-mobile.com - 3636
- http://www.yellowpages.com - 3584
- http://www.monster.com - 3578
- http://www.nytimes.com - 3556
- http://www.live.com - 3550
- http://www.hp.com - 472
- http://www.orbitz.com - 3456
- http://www.whitepages.com - 3339
- http://www.microsoft.com - 3310
- http://www.capitalone.com - 3251
- http://www.ticketmaster.com - 3228
- http://www.target.com - 3157
- http://www.realtor.com - 3114
- http://www.ebay.co.uk - 3064
- http://www.kbb.com - 3036
- http://www.blogger.com - 3031
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Ev // Jun 17, 2007 at 9:04 pm
damn, this blows. Thanks for the tool anyway.
2 spenser // Oct 6, 2007 at 8:35 am
Well, no.
The code archive is was made available. That is much more interesting anyways.
With code, it can be installed just about anywhere without fear of the capability being withdrawn.
3 SEO Articles and Tips // Mar 30, 2008 at 5:39 am
Thanks for the tool
4 Zach // May 30, 2008 at 8:54 am
The link to download SpyJax is not working . . . I am interested in viewing the source code myself for an internal Stat Tracking project I am working on.
Thank you.
5 justin // May 30, 2008 at 10:40 am
Source code link is fixed. Sorry about that I just upgraded by blog and a few things were broken.
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