Find the country where a site is hosted in Excel

by Niels Bosma
JsonPathOnUrl, ResolveIp, HttpSettings

Using the ip-api.com JSON API and ResolveIp we can get the country where a site is hosted: The following API request http://ip-api.com/json/91.189.43.102 returns this JSON response: So we use ResolveIp to get the ip of the site and JsonPathOnUrl on to parse the result: =JsonPathOnUrl("http://ip-api.com/json/"&ResolveIp("http://nielsbosma.se");"$.country";HttpSettings(TRUE;;;"240|240|Host")) Note the usage limits from their documentation: Our system will automatically ban...

Bulk check Google Mobile Test in Excel

by Niels Bosma
scrapers, JsonPathOnUrl

So with mobilegeddon raging around us we need a good way to bulk check all of our websites for mobile friendliness. A perfect job for Excel and SeoTools! Google has released a tool that help test whether a website is considered "mobile friendly" or not. But only for one website at a time. What if we need to bulk check lots of websites to spot the ones we need to fix? In this post I'll show you how we can...