HOW TO NOTIFY SEARCH ENGINES WHEN YOU POST TO JEKYLL

gistfile1.rb

# Credit / Stolen from http://natelandau.com/how-to-notify-services-when-post-jekyll/

# Ping Pingomatic
desc 'Ping pingomatic'
task :pingomatic do
  begin
    require 'xmlrpc/client'
    puts '* Pinging ping-o-matic'
    XMLRPC::Client.new('rpc.pingomatic.com', '/').call('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', 'YOURSITE.com' , 'http://YOURSITE.com', 'http://YOURSITE.com/atom.xml')
  rescue LoadError
    puts '! Could not ping ping-o-matic, because XMLRPC::Client could not be found.'
  end
end

# Ping Google
desc 'Notify Google of the new sitemap'
task :sitemapgoogle do
  begin
    require 'net/http'
    require 'uri'
    puts '* Pinging Google about our sitemap'
    Net::HTTP.get('www.google.com', '/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=' + URI.escape('http://YOURSITE.com/sitemap.xml'))
  rescue LoadError
    puts '! Could not ping Google about our sitemap, because Net::HTTP or URI could not be found.'
  end
end

# Ping Bing
desc 'Notify Bing of the new sitemap'
task :sitemapbing do
  begin
    require 'net/http'
    require 'uri'
    puts '* Pinging Bing about our sitemap'
    Net::HTTP.get('www.bing.com', '/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=' + URI.escape('http://YOURSITE.com/sitemap.xml'))
  rescue LoadError
    puts '! Could not ping Bing about our sitemap, because Net::HTTP or URI could not be found.'
  end
end

# Ping pubsubhubbub
desc 'Notify pubsubhubbub server.'
task :pingpubsubhubbub do
  begin
    require 'cgi'
    require 'net/http'
    puts '* Pinging pubsubhubbub server'
    data = 'hub.mode=publish&hub.url=' + CGI::escape("http://YOURSITE.com/atom.xml")
    http = Net::HTTP.new('pubsubhubbub.appspot.com', 80)
    resp, data = http.post('http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/publish',
                           data,
                           {'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
    puts "Ping error: #{resp}, #{data}" unless resp.code == "204"
  end
end # task: pubsubhubbub

# rake notify
desc 'Notify various services about new content'
task :notify => [:pingomatic, :sitemapgoogle, :sitemapbing, :pingpubsubhubbub] do
end