Galerts¶ ↑

Simple Ruby library that uses Mechanize to scrape Google Alerts from the google alerts webpage. A lot of the functionality was ported from github.com/jab/galerts

Features:¶ ↑

• List all alerts associated with account.

• Create new alerts for any google domain.

• Update existing alert: Change delivery, frequency, volume, alert type or google domain.

• Find an alert by keyword

Issues:¶ ↑

• Cant sign in to certain Google Domains (co.kr, com.hk, .se etc.)

• Workaround: Create alerts logged out on different domains and verify them thru google.com/alerts

Example Code:¶ ↑

require 'galerts'

g_manager = Galerts::AlertsManager.new(email,password)

# List alerts: Returns an Array of Alert objects (see lib/galerts/alert.rb)

my_alerts = g_manager.alerts
sample_alert = my_alerts.first

# Update the google domain of this alert

sample_alert.domain = "co.uk"
g_manager.update(sample_alert)

# Create a new alert for "ruby google alerts" on Google News Spain in real time delivering alerts via email
# Note: There are defaults on the create, we list them here for better understanding

g_manager.create("ruby google alerts","es",Galerts::NEWS,Galerts::RT,Galerts::BEST_VOL,false)

# Delete an alert

g_manager.delete(sample_alert)

# Find an alert by passing a map of attributes
# Returns an array of Alert objects
g_manager.find({:query => "ruby google alerts"})
g_manager.find({:query => "ruby google alerts",:domain => "com"})
g_manager.find({:query => "ruby google alerts",:domain => "com",:feed => true})
..

Limitations:¶ ↑

Certain google domains have been known not to work. 
Here is a subset from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains which are known not work:

.ga, .gd, .gf, .im, .io, .lc