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Verify your website

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You must [https://www.mywot.com/user/register register an account] to associate your website(s) to.

==Claim your site ==

Go to your user [https://www.mywot.com/user/ profile].

Click on the ''My Sites'' menu tab.

Enter your site's domain name in the text input box. Click '''Add'''.
You should now see that WOT added the domain to ''your sites'' list.

; ''Subdomains''
: Please do not claim and verify subdomains if you are the owner of the root (parent) domain. Subdomains [[Rating_subdomains|inherit]] the root domain's reputation.

== Verify ==
WOT verification creates a unique string to use to claim your domain. This string can be in the form of a META Tag, a Keyword, or an HTML file.

Since the string is unique to the domain, if you are adding and verifying multiple domains, you'll need to compete this process for each. You cannot use 1 verification code for more than 1 domain.

Click on the '''[verify]''' link.
You will be presented with a drop-down select menu with the following two choices:
=== HTML file ===
# Download the '''.html file''' and upload it to http://YOUR_DOMAIN.COM. Do '''not''' edit the filename or contents.
# Make sure that you can view http://YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/mywot_uploaded_file.html in your browser '''before''' verifying your site.
# Once the file is viewable, return to your profile and click the '''Verify''' submit button.
<blockquote>''Note'': If our servers cannot access the verification file, the problem is usually due to an incorrectly configured web server on the other end. Sometimes web servers refuse to serve clients who don't send some specific headers in the request, for example. Please send us a [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/general support request] and we'll see why it is failing for your site.</blockquote>
This choice requires having FTP access.

=== Meta tag ===
# Copy the generated meta tag, and paste it into your site's home page. It should go in the <head> section, before the first <body> section. <code><meta name="wot-verification" content="mywot_generated_code"/></code>
# Return to your profile and click the '''Verify''' submit button.

You can use your CMS control panel to edit your page and insert the META tag or you can FTP your modified page.

==== Google sites ====
credit: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/25586-cannot-verify-i-am-the-owner-of-a-google-sites-hosted-site?comment=155146#comment-155146 Amobirius]
# Copy the generated META tag information from your Profile > My sites > Verify
# Sign in to your Control Panel
# Click more -> Manage Site
# navigate to Google Webmaster Tools
# paste the Meta tag code
# click Save
# return to WOT profile; click Verify

==== Wordpress ====
credit: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/15946-claiming-problem?comment=109166#comment-109166 mentalist3d]
# Login to your site and go to the dashboard.
:: Once in the Dashboard go to 'Appearance > Editor'
:: In the editor screen make sure your current theme is selected, and find the file 'header.php', click to open.
# Open a new tab or window and go to your WOT profile, then 'My Sites', click on 'Verify', where is says 'Authentication method:' select 'Meta Tag' and copy the code displayed.
# Switch back to your WordPress Tab/Window, and look for the following code: </head> just before that code, paste the WOT meta tag you copied, then click on 'Update File'.
# Once the file is updated, switch back to your WOT Tab/Window and click 'Verify'

=== Keyword ===
If you cannot place a new meta tag in your home page, add the generated (alphanumeric) ''WOT_keyword'' to the end of your list of keywords.
<pre><meta name="keyword" content="keyword,keyword,WOT_keyword" /></pre>
remember to separate keywords with a comma adding no space for valid formatting.
reference: [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.3W3C:Meta data profiles]

'''Note:'''
The HTML file name or the META tag / Keyword content will change if
you login using a different account or if
you delete the site from ''My Sites'' before verifying it.

== Site has been verified ==
After you have verified your site with WOT, you may remove the META tag, generated Keyword, or the uploaded HTML file.

== Website description ==

By default, WOT incorporates the Meta Description on the domain's scorecard.
<pre><meta name="description" content="website description" /></pre>

This description can be changed on the Scorecard if the site is verified.
# Open the ''My Sites'' page in your profile
# Click ''Edit'' in the options column of your verified site
# Enter the new description in the text input block
# Click ''Save''

== Free hosts ==
You can claim a site as yours as long as the site is either a domain name
* example.com
Or the site is a subdomain
* my_site.example.com
and you can either include the Meta Tag or generated Keyword into the header of the (generated) index page, or FTP the HTML file.

If your site is contained within a URL, you cannot add it to your ''My Sites''

WOT does not rate URL's

== Mediawiki ==
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/32072-claiming-a-wiki Claim a wiki]
<blockquote>This is a forum discussion which references a few Mediawiki extensions as a possible alternatives in creating HTML meta tags. These have not been tested and are not official Mediawiki hacks. If anyone has successfully used one of these extensions to verify their wiki in their WOT user profile, please reply to the forum discussion.</blockquote>

Internet Explorer

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The add-on requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer (10.0 recommended).

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [https://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [https://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==

[https://www.mywot.com/download/ie Download the Add-on] from our website.

== Development notes ==

You'll need Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html libpng], and [http://www.boost.org/ the Boost library] to compile the add-on. Some tweaks to paths in the project files are most likely also required.

If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to [mailto:support@mywot.com email us patches] for improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
* 20130902 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20130902-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Removes deprecated rating components
** Adds support for Enhanced Protected Mode for 64-bit IE 10+
* 20120802 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20120802-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes issues activating the add-on on the welcome page for various IE versions
** Fixes code page issues on warning and blocking screens for languages that use multibyte characters
** Fixes pop-up positioning in search results when zooming
** Uses a smaller 19x19px toolbar button to better fit the IE toolbar
** Enables ASLR and DEP in the add-on binary
* 20111107 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 20110928 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110928-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Adds support for 64-bit IE
* 20110720 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110720-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Reduces load time
* 20110704 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translation for ko-KR
* 20101220 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101220-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed registry issues with protected mode when IE is run both as administrator and as a normal user.
* 20100830 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100830-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed dynamic Google search results.
* 20100303 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100303-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed rating window positioning for multiple monitors.
* ...

Internet Explorer

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API

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This document contains the technical specification of the WOT API v0.4 and it's aimed at developers implementing software that uses WOT services.

== Terms and conditions ==
Before you continue, notice that in addition to [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service], which apply to all WOT services, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply for using the API.

=== Registration ===
You need an API key to use the public API. In order to request a key, you need a WOT account. Once you have an account, you can [http://www.mywot.com/profile/api request your API key from this page]. After you have requested a key, you will see an API tab in your profile where you can update the information and access the key.

Note: any previous public APIs that did not require registration are deprecated and may have stricter rate limits applied to them. If your requests to these APIs return HTTP status code 429, you should migrate to [[#public_link_json2|public_link_json2]].

== Introduction ==
The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using ratings received from users and information from third-party sources. This section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts you will need to know to develop applications that use reputation data.

=== Targets ===
Reputations are computed for websites, or ''targets'', which are identified primarily by their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS] names. If a DNS name is not available for a target, an IPv4 or IPv6 address may be used instead. WOT also supports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names] (IDN), which must be encoded to an ASCII representation as described in RFC 3490. For example:
ääkkönen.fi = xn--kknen-fraa0m.fi

=== Reputations ===
Reputations are measured for targets in several ''components''. For each <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair, the system computes two values: a reputation estimate and the confidence in the reputation. Together, these indicate the amount of trust in the target in the given component.

==== Components ====
Reputation components are identified by numbers. These are the current components and their definitions:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Component identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Example
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 0
| Trustworthiness
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How much do you trust this site?”
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 4
| Child safety
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How suitable is this site for children?”
|}

'''Note''': components 1 and 2 are deprecated. The API will continue returning data for these components to preserve compatibility, but the components should not be used in new applications. Those interested in the type of information that was included in the deprecated components are encouraged to look into [[#Categories|categories]] below.

==== Reputation and confidence values ====
The reputation ''r'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} is the estimate of the collective trust for the target in the given component. The higher the value, the more the community trusts the website. These are the definitions for the reputation values:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation value
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 15px;" | Symbol
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 80
| Excellent
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 60
| Good
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_good.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 40
| Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 20
| Poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 0
| Very poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]]
|}

WOT uses this visual representation to indicate reputations: [[File:ReputationHelp.png]]

[[File:ConfidenceSample.png|left]] The confidence ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} indicates the estimated reliability of the reputation ''r'' for the <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair. Again, the higher the value, the more reliable the system considers the reputation estimate.

You should use the confidence value to determine whether an action based on a poor reputation is warranted. For example, the WOT add-on requires a confidence value of ≥ 10 before it presents a warning about a website. Using a higher confidence threshold will result in fewer false positives, but also means your application will catch fewer poorly rated sites. You are encouraged to experiment with different confidence thresholds to see which suits your application the best.

=== Categories ===
In addition to reputations, the rating system also computes categories for websites based on votes from users and third parties. Category data aims to explain the reason behind a poor reputation, and you can use the information to more specifically determine what type of action to take when coming across a poorly rated site. The current categories are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 101
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Malware or viruses
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 102
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor customer experience
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 103
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Phishing
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 104
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Scam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 105
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially illegal
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 201
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Misleading claims or unethical
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 202
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Privacy risks
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 203
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Suspicious
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 204
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Hate, discrimination
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 205
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Spam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 206
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially unwanted programs
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 207
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Ads / pop-ups
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Neutral
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 301
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Online tracking
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 302
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Alternative or controversial medicine
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 303
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Opinions, religion, politics
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 304
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Other
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 501
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good site
|}

The following categories provide additional information about child safety:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 401
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Adult content
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 402
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Incidental nudity
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 403
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gruesome or shocking
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 404
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site for kids
|}

For each category, the reputation system also computes a confidence value ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100}, similarly to reputations. The higher the value, the more reliable the category assignment can be considered. If you use categories to determine the severity of a poor reputation, you may want to use a lower confidence threshold for the category data.

WOT uses this visual representation for category groups and their confidence: [[File:CategoryHelp.png]]

=== Third-party blacklists ===
If a website is included in a third-party blacklist and it's possible that this blacklisting affects its reputation, the API will return information about the type of blacklist the site was found in, and when the site was last added there. Here are the current blacklist types:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Blacklist type
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | malware
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting malware.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | phishing
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a phishing page.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | scam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a scam (e.g. a rogue pharmacy).
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | spam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for sending spam or being advertised in spam.
|}

Note that if a site appears on multiple third-party blacklists of the same type, the latest time it was added to either one of them will be returned.

== Requests ==
The API consists of a number of interfaces, all of which are called using normal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] GET requests to <tt>api.mywot.com</tt> and return a response in XML or JSON format if successful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes HTTP status codes] are used for returning error information and parameters are passed using standard URL conventions. The request format is as follows:

http://'''api.mywot.com'''/version/interface?param1=value1&param2=value2

TLS encryption can be used with all interfaces if requests are made from a secure web page to [[#Documentation: Reputation API|the reputation API]], for example.

== Documentation: Reputation API ==

=== public_link_json2 ===
The <tt>public_link_json2</tt> API is used for requesting reputations for multiple targets.

==== Parameters ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid gray; width: 100%;"
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''hosts'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | A list of target names separated with a forward slash (“/”). For example, <tt>www.example.com/another.example.net/onemore.example.org/</tt>. The value must end with a slash and must include at most 100 target names. Note: the full request path must also be less than 8 KiB or it will be rejected.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''callback''' (optional)
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | The name of the callback function for a response in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP JSONP] (JSON with Padding) format.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''key'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | Your [[#Registration|API key]].
|}

==== Return codes ====
If the call is successful, the returned HTTP status code is 200. If a server-side error occurred, the status code is 500. If the request included an invalid API key or incorrect parameters, the status code is 403. If you have exceeded your daily request quota, the status code is [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#section-4 429].

==== Output ====
The API returns a reputations, categories, and third-party blacklist information in a JSON or a JSONP format, depending on whether the <tt>callback</tt> parameter is specified in the request. The format is as follows:

# The response object has one attribute for each target, named by the unchanged target name given in the <tt>hosts</tt> parameter.
# Each target object has a <tt>target</tt> attribute, which contains the normalized [[#Targets|target name]].
# Each target object also has zero or more component attributes with names ∊ {“0”, ...}.
## Each component attribute contains an array with {r, c} values for [[#Reputations|the reputation component]]. If the reputation for a component is not known, the corresponding attribute is omitted from the output.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>categories</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Categories|category identifier attributes]] and their confidence values.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>blacklists</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Third-party blacklists|blacklist type attributes]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time a Unix timestamp] when the site was last added to the third-party source of given type.

==== Example ====
Request:
<nowiki>http://api.mywot.com/0.4/public_link_json2?hosts=example.COM/www.EXAMPLE.NET/&callback=process&key=<your API key></nowiki>
Response:
'''process'''({
"example.COM": {
"target": "example.com",
"0": [ 91, 53 ],
"4": [ 93, 53 ],
"categories": {
"501": 71,
"304": 37
}
},
"www.EXAMPLE.NET": {
"target": "example.net",
"0": [ 9, 43 ],
"categories": {
"101": 54
},
"blacklists": {
"malware": 1362123608
}
}
})

Opera

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[[File:WOTOpera.png|300px|thumb|right|Version 0.9 on Opera 11.]]
The add-on requires Opera 11 or later, and it works on all supported platforms.

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==
* [https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/wot/ Download the add-on] from Opera extensions.
* [http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-latest.oex Download the add-on] from our website.

== Development notes ==
If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to make [https://github.com/mywot/opera/pulls pull requests] with improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
These are version of WOT for Opera 12 and earlier. WOT has stopped developing the add-on further for Opera 12, since new Opera browser - Opera Next - is Chromium based and thus new WOT version for it is the same as for Chrome browser. Please find [[Chrome#Version_history|WOT for Opera Next on the Chrome's page]].

* 1.11 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/zipball/20130521 source code])
** Fixed ContentEditable Issue with Facebook Note
* 1.10 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/zipball/20130121 source code])
** Fixed bug: Don't mark-up links in editable content
** Added Ukrainian language
** Small fixes to russian and german texts
* 1.9 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/zipball/20120718 source code])
** Added Turkish language
** Feature: hide green donuts on webmails
* 1.8 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/zipball/20120319 source code])
** Fixed: website authentication didn't work immediately.
** Fixed: allow add-on to communicate with mywot.com over TLS
** Added Opera 12 compatibility
** Upgraded jQuery to 1.7.1
** Added the "settings" menu item
** Prevented text selection in popover, warning screen, and popup
** Added a context when opening mywot.com pages from an add-on
** Stopped the warning screen from showing up immediately after rating site poorly
** Added better Russian translations
* 1.7 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/zipball/20120203 source code])
** Fixed: Opera 11.61 breaks ratings in frames
** Fixed: Popup positioning bug in gmail
** Fixed: Wrong params number in matchrule()
** Added Swedish short description of add-on
** Updated descriptions in config.xml from Opera Add-on Store
* 1.6 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/tree/20111230 source code])
** Fixed issues with Chinese locales and added localized description for all supported languages.
* 1.5 ([https://github.com/mywot/opera/tree/20111209 source code])
** Adds a workaround to a DOMNodeInserted event listener issue that caused image uploads to fail on VKontakte.
* 1.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-opera.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 1.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111020-opera.tar.gz source code])
** Improves performance on sites with a lot of frames or social sharing buttons
* 1.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110714-opera.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes warning thresholds in the previous version
** Fixes the toolbar icon in the colorblind accessible mode
* 1.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-opera.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translations for ko-KR
** Fixes issues with ratings in Gmail
* 1.0 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110323-opera.tar.gz source code])
** Adds ratings to Facebook, Twitter, and shortened URLs
* 0.9 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101217-opera.tar.gz source code])
** First public release

[[Category:Browsers]]

Safari

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[[File:Wotsafari.png|300px|thumb|right|Version 0.2 on Mac OS X.]]
The add-on requires Safari 5 or later, and works on all supported platforms.

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==
* [http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-latest.safariextz Download the add-on] from our website.

After installing, you can always update to the latest supported version from Preferences -> Extensions -> Updates.

== Development notes ==
If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to make [https://github.com/mywot/safari/pulls pull requests] with improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
=== WOT 2.0 ===
* 2.0.17 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20130919 source code])
** First public release of WOT 2.0 for Safari
=== WOT 1.0 ===
* 1.12 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20130122 source code])
** Fixed: Don't mark-up links in editable content
** Added Ukrainian language
** Enabled Korean language
** Fixed several small bugs
* 1.11 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20120718 source code])
** New Warning Screen
** Turkish translations
* 1.10 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20120424 source code])
** Don't show green donuts for webmails (support use_search_level) from search rules.
** #20, Don't show warning screen immediately after rating site to red
** #23, Indicate unrated sites on an appearing icon
** # 21, Default safari icon in extensions list (preferences)
* 1.9 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20120222 source code])
** Improvement: Use native Popover to show rating window
** small improvement: prevent text selection in popup, rating window and warning screen [https://github.com/mywot/safari/issues/12 #12]
** Updated russian locale
** All addon's links now have src=addon-* get-parameter to distinguish origin
** Bug fixed: Bug with geticon when new testimony is set [https://github.com/mywot/safari/issues/7 #7]
* 1.8 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20120206 source code])
** Fixed bug with mispositioning WOT popup in Gmail
* 1.7 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20120119 source code])
** fixed the bug "Donuts are shown even if page contains inclusions which are matched to search rules"
* 1.6 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20111213 source code])
** jQuery is upgraded to 1.7.1, some bugs fixed
* 1.5 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 1.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111020-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Improves performance on sites with a lot of frames or social sharing buttons
** Upgraded jQuery to 1.6.4
* 1.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110714-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes warning thresholds in the previous version
** Fixes the rating symbol shown on the web page in colorblind accessible mode
** Adds an option to the advanced settings to disable showing the rating on the page
* 1.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translations for ko-KR
* 1.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110323-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Adds ratings to Facebook, Twitter, and shortened URLs.
** Updated the version number to match other add-ons with the same code base.
* 0.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101204-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed encoding of shared host names (on twitter.com, for example).
** Upgraded to jQuery 1.4.4
* 0.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100712-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed rating window and rating indicator issues on sites that use frames
* 0.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100628-safari.tar.gz source code])
** First public release

== Blog announcement ==
[http://www.mywot.com/blog/259-attention-safari-users-wot-is-available-for-you-too Attention Safari users! WOT is available for you too!] ''Tue 29 Jun 2010''

It's official. The WOT add-on is now available for the Safari browser (Safari 5 or later). It was challenging for our developers, but not because building a WOT extension for Safari is technically difficult. The reason is simple, but a bit mystifying at first.

The Safari toolbar's color scheme is in a gray palette. WOT's icons are traffic-light colored; green, yellow and red. So unless a whole new toolbar would be allocated just for the WOT icon (which I doubt you would want, since that's valuable real estate), it took a little quirky creativity.
Quirky WOT icons for Safari

Instead of seeing a green icon in the toolbar to denote a site with an excellent or good WOT rating, you will see a gray icon with a check-mark...

read the [http://www.mywot.com/blog/259-attention-safari-users-wot-is-available-for-you-too article]

[[Category:Browsers]]

Chrome

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[[File:Chromebrowseractions.png|300px|thumb|right|Version ≥ 0.7 uses the Browser Actions API.]]
The add-on requires Chrome 16 or later, or any Chromium based browsers, such as [http://www.opera.com/computer/next Opera Next], [http://internet.mail.ru Mail.ru Internet], [http://browser.yandex.com Yandex Browser], and works on all supported platforms.

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==
* [https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bhmmomiinigofkjcapegjjndpbikblnp Download the add-on] from Google Chrome WebStore or if you have problems installing from Google's website, [http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-latest.crx download the latest version] from our website.

After installing, you can always update to the latest supported version by opening chrome://extensions and pressing the "Update all extensions now" button.

=====Chromium browsers version 16, 17=====
* [http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-m1-latest.crx Download the add-on] from here, if you have Chrome/Chromium browser version less than 18. This version of the WOT add-on is the same as from WebStore, except of different internal manifest.json file.

== Development notes ==
If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to make [https://github.com/mywot/chrome/pulls pull requests] with improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
=== WOT 2.0 ===
* 2.1.1 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20131010 source code])
** Improvement: Simplified category selector
** Improvement: Don't show "Categorize-it" badge for website rated as good by the user
** Improvement: Don't show category "Good site" on "Other users' opinions" and child categories
** Fixed: Warning WT appears every time ignoring the previously pressed "OK"
** Other bugfixes
* 2.0.18 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130921 source code])
** Fixed: Rating window size changes
** Fixed: Clearing ratings separately doesn't clear voted categories
** Fixed: Italian and German translations
** several other bugfixes
* 2.0.17 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130909 source code])
** First public release of WOT 2.0

=== WOT 1.0 ===
* 1.4.14 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130627 source code])
** Disabled IntroTip for all (temporary)
* 1.4.13 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130626 source code])
** Added delay before IntroTip appears during first launch
** Show real target name in the rating window and warning
** Fixed minor bug
* 1.4.12 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130514 source code])
** Fixed issue with Facebook Notes and leaking popup markup to them
* 1.4.11 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130328 source code])
** Fixed height issue for FBL when user has zoomed screen
** small improvements of FBL
** Added "Forum" link to the Rating Window
* 1.4.10 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130311 source code])
** Fixed: Show FBL for websites after warning screen is skipped
** Added a/b testing for welcome tips
** Several bugfixes
* 1.4.9 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130211 source code])
** New welcome tip for rating window
** Mini donuts on SERPs and social networks
** #44 Change WS's background gradient
** Fixed the bug with FBL
* 1.4.8 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130125 source code])
** Fixed the bug with auth cookie
* 1.4.7 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130121 source code])
** Added links to WelcomeTips
** small changes to russian locale (more accurate meanings)
** Fixed: Don't mark-up links in editable content
** Fixed: several bugs with Warning styles
* 1.4.6 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130110 source code])
** several bugfixes
** Localization of Feedback Loop functionality (en, ru)
* 1.4.5 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130108 source code])
** Fixed several minor bugs
* version number 1.4.4 is skipped
* 1.4.3 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20130103 source code])
** Small bugfix in welcome tips
** Added Feedback Loop feature (in testing mode now)
* version numbers 1.4.0 - 1.4.2 are skipped
* 1.3.12 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121127 source code])
** Welcome Tips: Donuts Tip added (for all EN and RU users)
* 1.3.11 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121120 source code])
** WelcomeTips are enabled (WS, RW only) for all chrome users in English and Russian languages.
* 1.3.10 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121113 source code])
** Small improvement to WelcomeTips (green buttons)
* 1.3.9 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121110 source code])
** fixed a bug with processing welcome tip in frames
* 1.3.8 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121109 source code])
** small changes in stats processing (GA)
* 1.3.7 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121106 source code])
** "Welcome Tips" are introduced for Mail.ru browser users (experiment)
** small improvements to GA stats
* 1.3.6 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121024 source code])
** Small improvement: adaptive minimal confidence level
* 1.3.5 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121015 source code])
** Fixed the bug with broken appearance of Warning Screen in rare cases
** Added Google Analytics stats measuring
* 1.3.4 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20121001 source code])
** Added Turkish language
* 1.3.3 (have been never released to Chrome webstore)
** experimental: don't show welcome page to users of mail.ru browser
* 1.3.2 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120823 source code])
** Added Ukrainian language
* 1.3.1 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120801 source code])
** #45, Czech strings were updated
** All descriptions were cut to fit limit
** New description for EN
* 1.3.0 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120716 source code])
** #32, new Warning Screen
** #39, Make opaque background on adult sites
** #40, Warn on adult sites by default for MRU users
** #42, Don't show Privacy component for MRU by default
** #37, Fallback from CIS languages to Russian (added Ukrainian locale (rus lang))
* 1.2.14.4 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120608 source code])
** turned off setting experiment with light version of markup (enabled in previous version)
* 1.2.14.3 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120605 source code])
** experiment with light version of markup on some search pages
* 1.2.14 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120509 source code])
** #3, Update manifest.json for Chrome 18 (manifest version 2)
** #13, Context menu for opening scorecard
** #26 Expire "warned" flag when site was rated to red by user
* 1.2.13 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120409 source code])
** Hide green rating symbols from webmails
* 1.2.12 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120307 source code])
** #5, Search results missing a rating symbol for unrated sites sometimes
** #7, Make sure we don't assume blindly existance of r member
** #10, Prevent text selection in popover, warning screen and popup
** #12, Change russian text to better sounds
** #11, Distinguish a context when opening mywot.com pages from an addon
** #16, Don't show warning screen immediately after rating site
** fixed chrome's bug with getViews({})
* 1.2.11 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/zipball/20120203 source code])
** Fixed: Popup positioning bug in gmail
** Fixed: Wrong params number in matchrule()
* 1.2.10 ([https://github.com/mywot/chrome/tree/20111227 source code])
** localized short description to Russian
** jQuery upgraded to 1.7.1
* 1.2.9 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111125-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Reverted back to jQuery 1.4.4 for testing
** Note: the activation problems appear to be caused by [http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=88373 Chrome issue 88373] and there's very little we can do on the add-on side. Restarting your browser should solve the problem.
* 1.2.8 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111124-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Upgraded jQuery to 1.7.1
** Try to recover from jQuery .ajax failures when request status code is 200
* 1.2.7 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111123-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Added more error logging to add-on activation.
* 1.2.6 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111121-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** More activation fixes. Some users appear to be experiencing problems, which we are unable to reproduce.
* 1.2.5 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111114-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes possible issues with add-on activation
* 1.2.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 1.2.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111020-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Improves performance on sites with a lot of frames or social sharing buttons
** Upgraded jQuery to 1.6.4
* 1.2.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110714-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes warning thresholds in the previous version.
* 1.2.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110711-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes the toolbar icon in the colorblind accessible mode
* 1.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translations for ko-KR
* 1.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110323-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Adds ratings to Facebook, Twitter, and shortened URLs.
* 1.0.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101204-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed encoding of shared host names (on twitter.com, for example).
** Upgraded to jQuery 1.4.4
* 1.0.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100505-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed warning screen rendering in the current dev releases of Chrome 5.
* 1.0.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100328-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed a bug in link.api, which caused a reference error under specific (and rare) circumstances.
* 1.0.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100215-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Uses default values for settings if JSON.parse throws an exception, which it apparently does for null parameters in the latest dev release.
* 1.0 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100126-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Supports Chrome ≥ 4.0.249.64
** Switched from our own localization code to using [http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/i18n.html i18n.getMessage]
** Upgraded to jQuery 1.4.1
* 0.9.6 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091230-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Colorblind accessible user interface.
* 0.9.5 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091221-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Switched to bigger 19x19px icons for the browser action.
* 0.9.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091203-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed the "Add your comment" link on the rating window to open only one tab.
* 0.9.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091202-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed scrollbar flickering on the rating window.
** Set the [http://codereview.chromium.org/412008 all_frames] property for content scripts in anticipation to upcoming changes.
* 0.9.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091201-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes to api.link for a large number of targets.
* 0.9.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091125-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed the browser actions icon when multiple browser windows are used
* 0.9 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091124-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Updated manifest to match the current documentation, added icons for the extension
** Uploaded to Google's extensions gallery
* 0.8 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091026-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Supports Chrome ≥ 4.0.226.0
** Switched to using imageData for chrome.browserActions.setIcon, because using iconIndex was deprecated last week
** Added an options page, which redirects to the actual settings
* 0.7 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091019-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Supports Chrome ≥ 4.0.223.5 (-ish)
** Removed the toolstrip and switched to using Browser Actions instead
* 0.6 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091011-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** Added a few sanity checks for synchronizing to api.reload
** Added more error logging to critical functions in api.js and in content scripts
* 0.5 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20091008-chrome.tar.gz source code])
** First public release

[[Category:Browsers]]

Internet Explorer

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Firefox

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The add-on requires Firefox 14.0 or later, and works on all supported platforms.

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [https://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [https://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/3456?src=external-mywot-wiki Download the add-on] from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons website.

After installing, you can always update to the latest supported version from Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions.

== Development notes ==
If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to [mailto:support@mywot.com email us patches] for improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
=== WOT 2.0 ===
Works with Firefox 14.0 and later

* 20130924 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130924.zip source code])
** Fixed: non-latin chars are corrupted in user's comment when the comment is stored locally (temporarily)
* 20130917 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130917.zip source code])
** Fixed: Window popup resize doesn't work end WOT is enabled
* 20130916 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130916.zip source code])
** Fixed: Commenting API calls logs out user from WOT website
** Fixed: Encoded hostname is used in RW
** Fixed: Confusing text in the tooltip when the add-on is disabled
** Fixed: Update Italian locale
** Fixed: Mistake in German
* 20130915 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130915.zip source code])
** September 14, 2013 (521.8 KB)
** Fixed: conflict with ImTranslator add-on which breaks window popups
** Fixed: additional empty space in VK in chats
** Fixed: RW is not updated when rating is changed on scorecard
** Fixed: Clearing ratings separately doesn't clear voted categories
* 20130909 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130909.zip source code])
** September 9, 2013 (521.6 KB)
** First public release of WOT 2.0

=== WOT 1.0 ===
* 20130515 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130515.zip source code])
** Fixed bug with Facebook notes (WOT popup was leaking it's code)
** Fixed issue with Private Browsing mode (compatibility with FF >= 20)
* 20130402 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130402.zip source code])
** Added support of longer questions to FBL
** Fixed several issues of Warning Screen
* 20130129 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130129.zip source code])
** Fixed issue with editable content #26
* 20130116 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20130122.zip source code])
** Added Feedback Loop feature
** Added clean-up on uninstallation
** Replaced synchronous XMLHttpRequest call to async
* 20120926 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/archive/20120926.zip source code])
** Adds the toolbar button after the Stop button to better work with newer browser versions
** Adds Turkish and Ukrainian localizations
** Fixes the reputation icon in the warning notification bar to reflect the reputation
** Uses DOM Mutation Observers instead of Mutation events and hence supports only Firefox 14+
* 20120827 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/zipball/20120827 source code])
** Fixes locales for blocking pages.
** Fixes compatibility issues with EFF's HTTPS Everywhere.
* 20120515 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/zipball/20120515 source code])
** Hides good rating symbols from Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail
** Doesn't change the default search provider to WOT Safe Search
* 20120302 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/zipball/20120302 source code])
** Fix: doesn't update the user interface before the settings are loaded
* 20120229 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/zipball/20120229 source code])
** Doesn't recreate the toolbar button if it's removed or moved to the add-on bar
** Removes unnecessary debug messages
** Fixes an issue where the wrong toolbar icon style is visible on the welcome page after installation
* 20120227 ([https://github.com/mywot/firefox-xul/zipball/20120227 source code])
** Fixes timeout issues with Firefox 12+
** Fixes rating pop-up positioning in Gmail
** Clears cache after rating is changed on the WOT website
** Installs WOT Safe Search as the default search provider for new users
* 20111107 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-firefox.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the warning screen and the settings page
* 20110704 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-firefox.tar.gz source code])
** Improves startup speed
** Adds ko-KR translation
** Removes the modal EULA dialog
** Reduces the add-on size significantly by simplifying included images
* 20110323 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110323-firefox.tar.gz source code])
** Adds ratings to Facebook, Twitter, and shortened URLs
* 20100908 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100908-firefox.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes pop-up menus on Firefox 4.0 beta
* 20100823 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100823-firefox.tar.gz source code])
** Removes cookies from refinement script XMLHTTPRequests
** Loads more than 100 ratings for web search results if necessary to accommodate the new Google Image Search, for example

You can read [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/3456 the version history] for older add-ons from Mozilla's website.

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Source code

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You can download browser add-on source code from this page. If you are an end-user, [http://www.mywot.com/download see the download page] instead.

== Terms and conditions ==
Browser add-ons are [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html free software]: you can redistribute and/or modify them under [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] as published by the Free Software Foundation, using version 3 or higher.

Please notice that [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the ''software'' or the [[API]] as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the ''software'', [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API ToS] apply too.

== Source code ==
If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to [mailto:support@mywot.com email us patches] for improvements and bug fixes.

=== Availability ===

Source code is available on [[Firefox#Version history|the Firefox page]], [[Internet Explorer#Version history|the IE page]], [[Chrome#Version history|the Chrome page]], [[Safari#Version history|the Safari page]] and [[Opera#Version history|the Opera page]].

Note that you can also extract the source code by unzipping [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPInstall the .xpi file] available from Mozilla or the .crx file available from Google.

API

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This document contains the technical specification of the WOT API v0.4 and it's aimed at developers implementing software that uses WOT services.

== Terms and conditions ==
Before you continue, notice that in addition to [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service], which apply to all WOT services, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply for using the API.

=== Registration ===
You need an API key to use the public API. In order to request a key, you need a WOT account. Once you have an account, you can [http://www.mywot.com/profile/api request your API key from this page]. After you have requested a key, you will see an API tab in your profile where you can update the information and access the key.

Note: any previous public APIs that did not require registration are deprecated and may have stricter rate limits applied to them. If your requests to these APIs return HTTP status code 429, you should migrate to [[#public_link_json2|public_link_json2]].

== Introduction ==
The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using ratings received from users and information from third-party sources. This section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts you will need to know to develop applications that use reputation data.

=== Targets ===
Reputations are computed for websites, or ''targets'', which are identified primarily by their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS] names. If a DNS name is not available for a target, an IPv4 or IPv6 address may be used instead. WOT also supports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names] (IDN), which must be encoded to an ASCII representation as described in RFC 3490. For example:
ääkkönen.fi = xn--kknen-fraa0m.fi

=== Reputations ===
Reputations are measured for targets in several ''components''. For each <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair, the system computes two values: a reputation estimate and the confidence in the reputation. Together, these indicate the amount of trust in the target in the given component.

==== Components ====
Reputation components are identified by numbers. These are the current components and their definitions:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Component identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Example
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 0
| Trustworthiness
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How much do you trust this site?”
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 4
| Child safety
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How suitable is this site for children?”
|}

'''Note''': components 1 and 2 are deprecated. The API will continue returning data for these components to preserve compatibility, but the components should not be used in new applications. Those interested in the type of information that was included in the deprecated components are encouraged to look into [[#Categories|categories]] below.

==== Reputation and confidence values ====
The reputation ''r'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} is the estimate of the collective trust for the target in the given component. The higher the value, the more the community trusts the website. These are the definitions for the reputation values:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation value
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 15px;" | Symbol
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 80
| Excellent
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 60
| Good
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_good.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 40
| Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 20
| Poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 0
| Very poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]]
|}

WOT uses this visual representation to indicate reputations: [[File:ReputationHelp.png]]

[[File:ConfidenceSample.png|left]] The confidence ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} indicates the estimated reliability of the reputation ''r'' for the <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair. Again, the higher the value, the more reliable the system considers the reputation estimate.

You should use the confidence value to determine whether an action based on a poor reputation is warranted. For example, the WOT add-on requires a confidence value of ≥ 10 before it presents a warning about a website. Using a higher confidence threshold will result in fewer false positives, but also means your application will catch fewer poorly rated sites. You are encouraged to experiment with different confidence thresholds to see which suits your application the best.

=== Categories ===
In addition to reputations, the rating system also computes categories for websites based on votes from users and third parties. Category data aims to explain the reason behind a poor reputation, and you can use the information to more specifically determine what type of action to take when coming across a poorly rated site. The current categories are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 101
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Malware or viruses
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 102
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor customer experience
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 103
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Phishing
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 104
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Scam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 105
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially illegal
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 201
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Misleading claims or unethical
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 202
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Privacy risks
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 203
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Suspicious
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 204
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Hate, discrimination
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 205
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Spam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 206
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially unwanted programs
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 207
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Ads / pop-ups
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Neutral
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 301
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Online tracking
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 302
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Alternative or controversial medicine
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 303
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Opinions, religion, politics
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 304
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Other
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 501
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good site
|}

The following categories provide additional information about child safety:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 401
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Adult content
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 402
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Incidental nudity
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 403
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gruesome or shocking
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 404
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site for kids
|}

For each category, the reputation system also computes a confidence value ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100}, similarly to reputations. The higher the value, the more reliable the category assignment can be considered. If you use categories to determine the severity of a poor reputation, you may want to use a lower confidence threshold for the category data.

WOT uses this visual representation for category groups and their confidence: [[File:CategoryHelp.png]]

=== Third-party blacklists ===
If a website is included in a third-party blacklist and it's possible that this blacklisting affects its reputation, the API will return information about the type of blacklist the site was found in, and when the site was last added there. Here are the current blacklist types:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Blacklist type
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | malware
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting malware.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | phishing
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a phishing page.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | scam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a scam (e.g. a rogue pharmacy).
|}

Note that if a site appears on multiple third-party blacklists of the same type, the latest time it was added to either one of them will be returned.

== Requests ==
The API consists of a number of interfaces, all of which are called using normal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] GET requests to <tt>api.mywot.com</tt> and return a response in XML or JSON format if successful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes HTTP status codes] are used for returning error information and parameters are passed using standard URL conventions. The request format is as follows:

http://'''api.mywot.com'''/version/interface?param1=value1&param2=value2

TLS encryption can be used with all interfaces if requests are made from a secure web page to [[#Documentation: Reputation API|the reputation API]], for example.

== Documentation: Reputation API ==

=== public_link_json2 ===
The <tt>public_link_json2</tt> API is used for requesting reputations for multiple targets.

==== Parameters ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid gray; width: 100%;"
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''hosts'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | A list of target names separated with a forward slash (“/”). For example, <tt>www.example.com/another.example.net/onemore.example.org/</tt>. The value must end with a slash and must include at most 100 target names. Note: the full request path must also be less than 8 KiB or it will be rejected.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''callback''' (optional)
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | The name of the callback function for a response in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP JSONP] (JSON with Padding) format.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''key'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | Your [[#Registration|API key]].
|}

==== Return codes ====
If the call is successful, the returned HTTP status code is 200. If a server-side error occurred, the status code is 500. If the request included an invalid API key or incorrect parameters, the status code is 403. If you have exceeded your daily request quota, the status code is [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#section-4 429].

==== Output ====
The API returns a reputations, categories, and third-party blacklist information in a JSON or a JSONP format, depending on whether the <tt>callback</tt> parameter is specified in the request. The format is as follows:

# The response object has one attribute for each target, named by the unchanged target name given in the <tt>hosts</tt> parameter.
# Each target object has a <tt>target</tt> attribute, which contains the normalized [[#Targets|target name]].
# Each target object also has zero or more component attributes with names ∊ {“0”, ...}.
## Each component attribute contains an array with {r, c} values for [[#Reputations|the reputation component]]. If the reputation for a component is not known, the corresponding attribute is omitted from the output.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>categories</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Categories|category identifier attributes]] and their confidence values.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>blacklists</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Third-party blacklists|blacklist type attributes]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time a Unix timestamp] when the site was last added to the third-party source of given type.

==== Example ====
Request:
<nowiki>http://api.mywot.com/0.4/public_link_json2?hosts=example.COM/www.EXAMPLE.NET/&callback=process&key=<your API key></nowiki>
Response:
'''process'''({
"example.COM": {
"target": "example.com",
"0": [ 91, 53 ],
"4": [ 93, 53 ],
"categories": {
"501": 71,
"304": 37
}
},
"www.EXAMPLE.NET": {
"target": "example.net",
"0": [ 9, 43 ],
"categories": {
"101": 54
},
"blacklists": {
"malware": 1362123608
}
}
})

FAQ

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This is a collection of answers not found in [http://www.mywot.com/faq the official FAQ].

== Common misconceptions ==

=== Users aren't qualified to rate sites ===

We realize the average web user isn't a security professional and we don't expect them to go out and investigate random websites for safety. We have an active group of experienced users who review sites for technical safety and help the average user avoid security threats. We only expect users to share their experiences with the websites they already know, because they are uniquely qualified to do that. Being able to learn from other people's experiences is the whole reason for this service.

=== Someone has to fall victim first before others can be warned ===

Someone obviously has to discover threats before they can warn others, but it doesn't mean this someone has to fall victim or even be a WOT user. We collect information from a number of blacklists and other sources to warn users of emerging threats before they have to experience them personally.

=== Reputations are easy to manipulate ===

When someone first hears about the concept behind WOT, their first objection is that someone could easily spam the system with tons of ratings and rate down their competitors or otherwise manipulate reputations, but that's not true. We designed the reputation system to be as fair as possible and very resistant to manipulation.

==== Ratings aren't equally reliable ====

Usually in reputation systems each rating is weighted equally and reputations are computed as the average of all ratings, which makes them extremely vulnerable to automated attacks. Therefore, we decided early on to value ratings by their merit and use some of the principles of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference Bayesian inference] for combining the ratings into reputations. Without going into details, the system analyzes each user's rating behavior from several aspects in order to determine their reliability. When you start using WOT, your ratings have little weight, but if you keep rating sites consistently, your ratings will be considered more reliable over time. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy meritocratic] nature of the system makes it far more difficult for spammers to abuse, because bots will have a hard time simulating human behavior over a long period of time.

Note: [[Rating reliability|User reliability]] is determined using statistical modeling and doesn't depend on the number of ratings or whether you agree with other users. Specifically, it's not related to your activity score or user level, which simply tell you how active you've been.

==== Unusual behavior is automatically detected ====

In addition to weighting ratings differently based on statistical analysis of user's rating behavior, we also monitor for unusual rating activity. The system is capable of ignoring spammers without human intervention and almost every type of unusual rating behavior can be detected. We investigate all suspicious activity and ratings from someone abusing the service will be silently ignored.

==== But I don't agree with a reputation! ====

The site's reputation tells you how much other users trust the website. If you disagree with a reputation, it's most likely not because the reputation is being manipulated or there's a conspiracy against the site, but because other people simply don't agree with you. Their experiences may be different from yours, it happens sometimes. You may want to start a new topic on [http://www.mywot.com/forum the forum] to discuss the site's reputation or if you suspect unusual activity, [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/problem report it].

== Ratings vs. comments ==

Ratings are often confused with comments, probably because comments are so prominently visible on the scorecard. Users can rate websites on the add-on or on each website's scorecard in four rating components. Ratings are private, which means they are not shown to other users. Reputations are computed only from ratings.

If users want to share additional details about their experiences, they can also write comments to scorecards. Comments are purely informational and have no effect on the reputation. Comments can be voted up or down depending on whether others agree with them. Comment votes only determine the default order of comments on the scorecard, they won't affect the site's reputation. If a site's reputation rating is determined to be controversial, comment voting is disabled to prevent one side from suppressing opposing views by voting them down.

=== Why can't I see how others have rated a site? ===

It's always been WOT's policy to keep user ratings private and have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot a secret ballot]. If users want to reveal their opinion of a website to others, they have an option to post a comment. If all ratings were public, users might be reluctant to rate certain sites, because it would reveal to everyone they have actually visited them. Not to mention that users with an opposite agenda might start intimidating others to change their ratings. This all would lead to less ratings, which leads to less reliable reputations; something nobody wants.

=== Why don't you show the number of ratings? ===

Unlike it might first seem, the number of ratings won't tell you the reliability of a reputation, and showing it could in fact be misleading to users. It would be trivial for a spammer to rate a site multiple times and thereby make the reputation appear to be reliable, for example. This is why WOT shows you the confidence indicator instead (the small human figures next to each rating symbol). The confidence value tells you how reliable the rating system considers the reputation and it's based not only on the quantity of ratings, but also the estimated reliability of the users who rated the site.

=== Why don't comments always match the reputation? ===

A site's reputation is computed from ratings, not comments. Leaving a comment is completely optional and since users who disagree with the reputation or otherwise feel strongly about the site are more likely to also write a comment, it's not uncommon for comments to appear to contradict with the reputation.

== Malicious rumors ==

It's unfortunate, but the more popular WOT becomes and the more successful it is at preventing people from falling for scams, the more people start attacking us. Often scammers whose business model WOT is hurting or other disgruntled website owners spread malicious rumors about the service in an attempt to discredit it and to discourage people from benefiting from the reputations. This section addresses some of the most common rumors.

=== WOT is a scam, it's illegal, or it's run by criminals ===

People spreading this rumor, whether out of malice or ignorance, rarely even try to explain what kind of a scam WOT is purported to be. This is because WOT is perfectly legitimate, has been around for over half a decade, and has credible backers. The legality of the WOT service has been [http://www.mywot.com/press/safe-surfing-tool-web-of-trust-wins-in-court tested in court] and there's nothing illegal or criminal about the company or the service.

WOT is operated by [http://www.mywot.com/aboutus WOT Services Oy], a Finnish company based in Helsinki. The company was started in 2006 and it's owned by a group of public and private investors, which include the Finnish Industry Investment (an investment company owner by the Finnish government), Open Ocean Capital (the investment company of MySQL founder Monty Widenius), [http://www.mywot.com/press/web-of-trust-closes-investment-round-from-inventure Inventure, and Risto Siilasmaa] (the founder and chairman of F-Secure). In 2010, the president of Finland [http://www.mywot.com/press/innofinland-prize-awarded-to-web-of-trust-community-of-over-16-million-web-users awarded WOT the national InnoFinland prize].

=== The add-on is spyware or adware ===

Due to its concept, the WOT add-on needs to request reputations for each website you visit. It also needs to keep track of your ratings, which it does by creating a random, anonymous identifier for you automatically. It's obvious that this information could be used to track which sites you browse, which is probably why spreading rumors about WOT being [[Spyware|spyware]] is a favorite among those trying to discredit the service. WOT is not spyware or [[Adware|adware]] and does its best to respect your privacy:

* '''Open add-ons.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">All WOT add-ons are open source, which means anyone can download [[Source code|the source code]] and verify what the add-on does. There are no secrets in the add-on, it only does what it says. The Firefox add-on is also thoroughly reviewed by Mozilla's editors every time it's submitted to the Add-ons website. So far, the add-on has been featured or recommended by Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Opera.</div>

* '''No tracking.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px">The add-on sends as little information to WOT servers as possible. When you visit a website, the add-on sends the hostname (not the URL) of the site to load the reputation and your ratings. The hostname is encrypted in transit and on our servers logs to prevent eavesdropping. No further requests are made if you revisit the site during the next 30 minutes while the add-on keeps the reputations in its internal cache.</div><div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">When you search the web, the add-on doesn't send your search queries to WOT's servers, it only requests reputations for the sites that appear in the search results, provided that their reputations aren't already cached.</div>

* '''Data retention.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">All requests the add-on makes are logged temporarily on WOT's servers. These logs aren't used to track users and the information isn't shared with anyone. The logs are kept temporarily only to create usage statistics and to analyze possible abuse incidents. All logs are deleted after one month. You can read more from [http://www.mywot.com/privacy the privacy policy].</div>

=== WOT sells reputations or blackmails site owners ===

After [http://www.mywot.com/trustseal the WOT trust seal] was introduced, every now and then rumors resurface claiming reputations can be bought, because WOT now sells something to site owners. That couldn't be further away from the truth. Only websites that have already earned a good reputation from user ratings are eligible for a trust seal, and should the website's reputation change to poor in future, they will lose the trust seal automatically. Sending WOT money does not affect a website's reputation, it's still determined from user ratings.

Another more recent variation of this is a claim that WOT is sending website owners email saying they need to pay, usually thousands of dollars, to improve their reputation. If someone has received an email saying this, it was not from WOT. You cannot pay to improve your reputation. If you are a site owner and someone is blackmailing you, contact the police. You can also post the evidence to the WOT forum and we will help you catch those who are responsible.

Update: Since October 2013, WOT trust seals and badges have been discontinued and it's no longer possible to buy them.

=== People who rate a lot of websites are spammers ===

Some of our most active users volunteer their time researching scams or security issues on the web. As a result, they may end up rating even hundreds of sites per day. Occasionally, we hear complaints that these people are spammers, bots, or even paid to rate websites for whatever nefarious purpose. Sometimes the argument goes that it's simply not possible for a person to rate that many sites, which means they must be doing something evil. Of course, none of that is true.

Probably thousands of websites are created every day for various scams, but luckily, there are also people who spend their time warning others. They are able to do this because we provide them access to tools that allow them to rate and leave comments for more than one website at a time. This way, when they uncover a hundred new websites recently set up for scamming people, they are able to rate all of them.

Note that unlike [[#Ratings vs. comments|normal ratings]], which are private, ratings left using the mass rating tool are more transparent, because the user is always forced to leave a comment explaining the rating. The comment also has a special icon on the top right corner that helps you distinguish it from normal comments. Despite these differences, it's important to note that ratings left using the mass rating tool are not considered [[#Ratings aren't equally reliable|any more reliable]] than normal ratings, and have no special meaning when the reputation is computed.

=== Platinum level users decide reputations ===

WOT assigns each user a level based on how active they have been. When someone starts using WOT, they are at the Rookie level. Once they have rated and commented enough websites, they finally reach the Platinum level. The user levels only tell you how active someone has been, they have no other meaning. Unfortunately, some people intentionally misinterpret user levels, and claim that nobody else's opinion matters anymore once a Platinum level user has left a comment for site. That's simply not true.

Since WOT is a meritocracy, the weight of user ratings vary depending on how reliable the rating system considers the user. This is completely different from user levels, and how active someone has been doesn't affect their rating reliability. Rating reliability is determined fully automatically based on analysis of the user's rating behavior. The only purpose for this is to make the system more resistant to manipulation and spamming. If someone tries to abuse the rating system, their ratings are accepted normally, but have such a low weight that they cannot do any harm.

When a new user starts using WOT, their ratings have little weight at first, but if they continue rating sites, the ratings will be considered more reliable after a while. Platinum level users have no advantage over others in this; their rating reliability varies just like it does with others. Not all Platinum level users are considered equally reliable either. In fact, when it comes to rating reliability, most of the users the system considers highly reliable are in lower user levels, which means they do not rate as many sites.

=== Facebook stopped using WOT ===

In May 2011, [http://www.mywot.com/press/facebook-protects-users-from-untrustworthy-websites-with-web-of-trust-reputation-ratings Facebook and WOT announced] that Facebook will start checking the WOT reputation of links posted to their service and will show an intermediate warning page when a user tries to follow a link to a poorly rated site. Recently, certain groups have started spreading rumors that Facebook has stopped using WOT in an attempt to discredit our service. This isn't true, and there have been no changes in our partnership with Facebook since the initial announcement regarding URL checking.

However, it should be noted that Facebook does use a higher warning threshold than the WOT add-on, which means the warning is shown only for sites that have a very poor reputation with a sufficiently high confidence level. In other words, Facebook doesn't warn about all poorly rated sites. Also, while WOT was the first link checking service Facebook integrated to their website, they have added several others since then, including Websense and SURBL, for example. These services have not replaced WOT, and using multiple link checking services was in Facebook's original plans.

Another variation of this rumor includes a claim that WOT was caught buying Facebook likes and includes a fake quote from Facebook. This is also misinformation. WOT has never bought Facebook likes and doesn't see any reason to do so. In fact, selling Facebook likes is commonly seen as highly unethical and websites doing so usually have a poor reputation at WOT. Most likely this malicious rumor was started by an owner of such a service.

In November 2012, Facebook also [http://www.mywot.com/press/web-of-trust-becomes-first-crowd-sourced-security-solution-invited-into-facebook-s-av-marketplace added the WOT add-on to their AV Marketplace]. “We have been proud partners with Web of Trust for the past year and a half, and are excited to announce a new stage of that partnership to keep our users and their data safe. Not only will Facebook users continue to benefit from WOT's reputation warnings when clicking potentially malicious links but also will be able to download their browser add-on for protection no matter where they are on the web” said Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer of Facebook.

API

2013-10-25T14:17:25Z

Sami: /* Registration */

This document contains the technical specification of the WOT API v0.4 and it's aimed at developers implementing software that uses WOT services.

== Terms and conditions ==
Before you continue, notice that in addition to [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service], which apply to all WOT services, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply for using the API.

=== Registration ===
You need an API key to use the public API. In order to request a key, you need a WOT account. Once you have an account, you can [http://www.mywot.com/profile/api request your API key from this page]. After you have requested a key, you will see an API tab in your profile where you can update the information and access the key.

Note: any previous public APIs that did not require registration are deprecated and may have stricter rate limits applied to them. If your requests to these APIs return HTTP status code 429, you should migrate to [[#public_link_json2|public_link_json2]].

== Introduction ==
The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using ratings received from users and information from third-party sources. This section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts you will need to know to develop applications that use reputation data.

=== Targets ===
Reputations are computed for websites, or ''targets'', which are identified primarily by their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS] names. If a DNS name is not available for a target, an IPv4 or IPv6 address may be used instead. WOT also supports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names] (IDN), which must be encoded to an ASCII representation as described in RFC 3490. For example:
ääkkönen.fi = xn--kknen-fraa0m.fi

=== Reputations ===
Reputations are measured for targets in several ''components''. For each <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair, the system computes two values: a reputation estimate and the confidence in the reputation. Together, these indicate the amount of trust in the target in the given component.

==== Components ====
Reputation components are identified by numbers. These are the current components and their definitions:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Component identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Example
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 0
| Trustworthiness
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How much do you trust this site?”
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 4
| Child safety
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How suitable is this site for children?”
|}

'''Note''': components 1 and 2 are deprecated. The API will continue returning data for these components to preserve compatibility, but the components should not be used in new applications. Those interested in the type of information that was included in the deprecated components are encouraged to look into [[#Categories|categories]] below.

==== Reputation and confidence values ====
The reputation ''r'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} is the estimate of the collective trust for the target in the given component. The higher the value, the more the community trusts the website. These are the definitions for the reputation values:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation value
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 15px;" | Symbol
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 80
| Excellent
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 60
| Good
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_good.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 40
| Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 20
| Poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 0
| Very poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]]
|}

WOT uses this visual representation to indicate reputations: [[File:ReputationHelp.png]]

[[File:ConfidenceSample.png|left]] The confidence ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} indicates the estimated reliability of the reputation ''r'' for the <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair. Again, the higher the value, the more reliable the system considers the reputation estimate.

You should use the confidence value to determine whether an action based on a poor reputation is warranted. For example, the WOT add-on requires a confidence value of ≥ 10 before it presents a warning about a website. Using a higher confidence threshold will result in fewer false positives, but also means your application will catch fewer poorly rated sites. You are encouraged to experiment with different confidence thresholds to see which suits your application the best.

=== Categories ===
In addition to reputations, the rating system also computes categories for websites based on votes from users and third parties. Category data aims to explain the reason behind a poor reputation, and you can use the information to more specifically determine what type of action to take when coming across a poorly rated site. The current categories are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 101
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Malware or viruses
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 102
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor customer experience
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 103
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Phishing
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 104
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Scam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 105
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially illegal
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 201
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Misleading claims or unethical
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 202
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Privacy risks
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 203
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Suspicious
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 204
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Hate, discrimination
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 205
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Spam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 206
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially unwanted programs
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 207
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Ads / pop-ups
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Neutral
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 301
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Online tracking
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 302
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Alternative or controversial medicine
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 303
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Opinions, religion, politics
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 304
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Other
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 501
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good site
|}

The following categories provide additional information about child safety:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 401
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Adult content
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 402
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Incidental nudity
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 403
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gruesome or shocking
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 404
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site for kids
|}

For each category, the reputation system also computes a confidence value ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100}, similarly to reputations. The higher the value, the more reliable the category assignment can be considered. If you use categories to determine the severity of a poor reputation, you may want to use a lower confidence threshold for the category data.

WOT uses this visual representation for category groups and their confidence: [[File:CategoryHelp.png]]

=== Third-party blacklists ===
If a website is included in a third-party blacklist and it's possible that this blacklisting affects its reputation, the API will return information about the type of blacklist the site was found in, and when the site was last added there. Here are the current blacklist types:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Blacklist type
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | malware
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting malware.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | phishing
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a phishing page.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | scam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a scam (e.g. a rogue pharmacy).
|}

Note that if a site appears on multiple third-party blacklists of the same type, the latest time it was added to either one of them will be returned.

== Requests ==
The API consists of a number of interfaces, all of which are called using normal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] GET requests to <tt>api.mywot.com</tt> and return a response in XML or JSON format if successful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes HTTP status codes] are used for returning error information and parameters are passed using standard URL conventions. The request format is as follows:

http://'''api.mywot.com'''/version/interface?param1=value1&param2=value2

TLS encryption can be used with all interfaces if requests are made from a secure web page to [[#Documentation: Reputation API|the reputation API]], for example.

== Documentation: Reputation API ==

=== public_link_json2 ===
The <tt>public_link_json2</tt> API is used for requesting reputations for multiple targets.

==== Parameters ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid gray; width: 100%;"
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''hosts'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | A list of target names separated with a forward slash (“/”). For example, <tt>www.example.com/another.example.net/onemore.example.org/</tt>. The value must end with a slash and must include at most 100 target names. Note: the full request path must also be less than 8 KiB or it will be rejected.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''callback''' (optional)
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | The name of the callback function for a response in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP JSONP] (JSON with Padding) format.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''key'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | Your [[#Registration|API key]].
|}

==== Return codes ====
If the call is successful, the returned HTTP status code is 200. If a server-side error occurred, the status code is 500. If the request included an invalid API key or incorrect parameters, the status code is 403. If you have exceeded your daily request quota, the status code is [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#section-4 429].

==== Output ====
The API returns a reputations, categories, and third-party blacklist information in a JSON or a JSONP format, depending on whether the <tt>callback</tt> parameter is specified in the request. The format is as follows:

# The response object has one attribute for each target, named by the unchanged target name given in the <tt>hosts</tt> parameter.
# Each target object has a <tt>target</tt> attribute, which contains the normalized [[#Targets|target name]].
# Each target object also has zero or more component attributes with names ∊ {“0”, ...}.
## Each component attribute contains an array with {r, c} values for [[#Reputations|the reputation component]]. If the reputation for a component is not known, the corresponding attribute is omitted from the output.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>categories</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Categories|category identifier attributes]] and their confidence values.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>blacklists</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Third-party blacklists|blacklist type attributes]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time a Unix timestamp] when the site was last added to the third-party source of given type.

==== Example ====
Request:
<nowiki>http://api.mywot.com/0.4/public_link_json2?hosts=example.COM/www.EXAMPLE.NET/&callback=process&key=<your API key></nowiki>
Response:
'''process'''({
"example.COM": {
"target": "example.com",
"0": [ 91, 53 ],
"4": [ 93, 53 ],
"categories": {
"501": 71,
"304": 37
}
},
"www.EXAMPLE.NET": {
"target": "example.net",
"0": [ 9, 43 ],
"categories": {
"101": 54
},
"blacklists": {
"malware": 1362123608
}
}
})

API

2013-10-25T14:14:54Z

Sami: /* Return codes */

This document contains the technical specification of the WOT API v0.4 and it's aimed at developers implementing software that uses WOT services.

== Terms and conditions ==
Before you continue, notice that in addition to [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service], which apply to all WOT services, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply for using the API.

=== Registration ===
You need an API key to use the public API. In order to request a key, you need a WOT account. Once you have an account, you can [http://www.mywot.com/profile/api request your API key from this page]. After you have requested a key, you will see an API tab in your profile where you can update the information and access the key.

Note: any previous public APIs that did not require registration are deprecated.

== Introduction ==
The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using ratings received from users and information from third-party sources. This section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts you will need to know to develop applications that use reputation data.

=== Targets ===
Reputations are computed for websites, or ''targets'', which are identified primarily by their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS] names. If a DNS name is not available for a target, an IPv4 or IPv6 address may be used instead. WOT also supports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names] (IDN), which must be encoded to an ASCII representation as described in RFC 3490. For example:
ääkkönen.fi = xn--kknen-fraa0m.fi

=== Reputations ===
Reputations are measured for targets in several ''components''. For each <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair, the system computes two values: a reputation estimate and the confidence in the reputation. Together, these indicate the amount of trust in the target in the given component.

==== Components ====
Reputation components are identified by numbers. These are the current components and their definitions:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Component identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Example
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 0
| Trustworthiness
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How much do you trust this site?”
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 4
| Child safety
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How suitable is this site for children?”
|}

'''Note''': components 1 and 2 are deprecated. The API will continue returning data for these components to preserve compatibility, but the components should not be used in new applications. Those interested in the type of information that was included in the deprecated components are encouraged to look into [[#Categories|categories]] below.

==== Reputation and confidence values ====
The reputation ''r'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} is the estimate of the collective trust for the target in the given component. The higher the value, the more the community trusts the website. These are the definitions for the reputation values:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation value
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 15px;" | Symbol
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 80
| Excellent
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 60
| Good
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_good.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 40
| Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 20
| Poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 0
| Very poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]]
|}

WOT uses this visual representation to indicate reputations: [[File:ReputationHelp.png]]

[[File:ConfidenceSample.png|left]] The confidence ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} indicates the estimated reliability of the reputation ''r'' for the <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair. Again, the higher the value, the more reliable the system considers the reputation estimate.

You should use the confidence value to determine whether an action based on a poor reputation is warranted. For example, the WOT add-on requires a confidence value of ≥ 10 before it presents a warning about a website. Using a higher confidence threshold will result in fewer false positives, but also means your application will catch fewer poorly rated sites. You are encouraged to experiment with different confidence thresholds to see which suits your application the best.

=== Categories ===
In addition to reputations, the rating system also computes categories for websites based on votes from users and third parties. Category data aims to explain the reason behind a poor reputation, and you can use the information to more specifically determine what type of action to take when coming across a poorly rated site. The current categories are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 101
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Malware or viruses
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 102
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor customer experience
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 103
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Phishing
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 104
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Scam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 105
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially illegal
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 201
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Misleading claims or unethical
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 202
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Privacy risks
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 203
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Suspicious
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 204
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Hate, discrimination
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 205
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Spam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 206
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially unwanted programs
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 207
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Ads / pop-ups
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Neutral
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 301
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Online tracking
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 302
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Alternative or controversial medicine
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 303
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Opinions, religion, politics
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 304
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Other
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 501
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good site
|}

The following categories provide additional information about child safety:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 401
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Adult content
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 402
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Incidental nudity
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 403
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gruesome or shocking
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 404
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site for kids
|}

For each category, the reputation system also computes a confidence value ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100}, similarly to reputations. The higher the value, the more reliable the category assignment can be considered. If you use categories to determine the severity of a poor reputation, you may want to use a lower confidence threshold for the category data.

WOT uses this visual representation for category groups and their confidence: [[File:CategoryHelp.png]]

=== Third-party blacklists ===
If a website is included in a third-party blacklist and it's possible that this blacklisting affects its reputation, the API will return information about the type of blacklist the site was found in, and when the site was last added there. Here are the current blacklist types:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Blacklist type
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | malware
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting malware.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | phishing
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a phishing page.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | scam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a scam (e.g. a rogue pharmacy).
|}

Note that if a site appears on multiple third-party blacklists of the same type, the latest time it was added to either one of them will be returned.

== Requests ==
The API consists of a number of interfaces, all of which are called using normal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] GET requests to <tt>api.mywot.com</tt> and return a response in XML or JSON format if successful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes HTTP status codes] are used for returning error information and parameters are passed using standard URL conventions. The request format is as follows:

http://'''api.mywot.com'''/version/interface?param1=value1&param2=value2

TLS encryption can be used with all interfaces if requests are made from a secure web page to [[#Documentation: Reputation API|the reputation API]], for example.

== Documentation: Reputation API ==

=== public_link_json2 ===
The <tt>public_link_json2</tt> API is used for requesting reputations for multiple targets.

==== Parameters ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid gray; width: 100%;"
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''hosts'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | A list of target names separated with a forward slash (“/”). For example, <tt>www.example.com/another.example.net/onemore.example.org/</tt>. The value must end with a slash and must include at most 100 target names. Note: the full request path must also be less than 8 KiB or it will be rejected.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''callback''' (optional)
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | The name of the callback function for a response in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP JSONP] (JSON with Padding) format.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''key'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | Your [[#Registration|API key]].
|}

==== Return codes ====
If the call is successful, the returned HTTP status code is 200. If a server-side error occurred, the status code is 500. If the request included an invalid API key or incorrect parameters, the status code is 403. If you have exceeded your daily request quota, the status code is [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#section-4 429].

==== Output ====
The API returns a reputations, categories, and third-party blacklist information in a JSON or a JSONP format, depending on whether the <tt>callback</tt> parameter is specified in the request. The format is as follows:

# The response object has one attribute for each target, named by the unchanged target name given in the <tt>hosts</tt> parameter.
# Each target object has a <tt>target</tt> attribute, which contains the normalized [[#Targets|target name]].
# Each target object also has zero or more component attributes with names ∊ {“0”, ...}.
## Each component attribute contains an array with {r, c} values for [[#Reputations|the reputation component]]. If the reputation for a component is not known, the corresponding attribute is omitted from the output.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>categories</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Categories|category identifier attributes]] and their confidence values.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>blacklists</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Third-party blacklists|blacklist type attributes]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time a Unix timestamp] when the site was last added to the third-party source of given type.

==== Example ====
Request:
<nowiki>http://api.mywot.com/0.4/public_link_json2?hosts=example.COM/www.EXAMPLE.NET/&callback=process&key=<your API key></nowiki>
Response:
'''process'''({
"example.COM": {
"target": "example.com",
"0": [ 91, 53 ],
"4": [ 93, 53 ],
"categories": {
"501": 71,
"304": 37
}
},
"www.EXAMPLE.NET": {
"target": "example.net",
"0": [ 9, 43 ],
"categories": {
"101": 54
},
"blacklists": {
"malware": 1362123608
}
}
})

Verify your website

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{{RightTOC}}
You must [https://www.mywot.com/user/register register an account] to associate your website(s) to.

==Claim your site ==

Go to your user [https://www.mywot.com/user/ profile].

Click on the ''My Sites'' menu tab.

Enter your site's domain name in the text input box. Click '''Add'''.
You should now see that WOT added the domain to ''your sites'' list.

; ''Subdomains''
: Please do not claim and verify subdomains if you are the owner of the root (parent) domain. Subdomains [[Rating_subdomains|inherit]] the root domain's reputation.

== Verify ==
WOT verification creates a unique string to use to claim your domain. This string can be in the form of a META Tag, a Keyword, or an HTML file.

Since the string is unique to the domain, if you are adding and verifying multiple domains, you'll need to compete this process for each. You cannot use 1 verification code for more than 1 domain.

Click on the '''[verify]''' link.
You will be presented with a drop-down select menu with the following two choices:
=== HTML file ===
# Download the '''.html file''' and upload it to http://YOUR_DOMAIN.COM. Do '''not''' edit the filename or contents.
# Make sure that you can view http://YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/mywot_uploaded_file.html in your browser '''before''' verifying your site.
# Once the file is viewable, return to your profile and click the '''Verify''' submit button.
<blockquote>''Note'': If our servers cannot access the verification file, the problem is usually due to an incorrectly configured web server on the other end. Sometimes web servers refuse to serve clients who don't send some specific headers in the request, for example. Please send us a [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/general support request] and we'll see why it is failing for your site.</blockquote>
This choice requires having FTP access.

=== Meta tag ===
# Copy the generated meta tag, and paste it into your site's home page. It should go in the <head> section, before the first <body> section. <code><meta name="wot-verification" content="mywot_generated_code"/></code>
# Return to your profile and click the '''Verify''' submit button.

You can use your CMS control panel to edit your page and insert the META tag or you can FTP your modified page.

==== Google sites ====
credit: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/25586-cannot-verify-i-am-the-owner-of-a-google-sites-hosted-site?comment=155146#comment-155146 Amobirius]
# Copy the generated META tag information from your Profile > My sites > Verify
# Sign in to your Control Panel
# Click more -> Manage Site
# navigate to Google Webmaster Tools
# paste the Meta tag code
# click Save
# return to WOT profile; click Verify

==== Wordpress ====
credit: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/15946-claiming-problem?comment=109166#comment-109166 mentalist3d]
# Login to your site and go to the dashboard.
:: Once in the Dashboard go to 'Appearance > Editor'
:: In the editor screen make sure your current theme is selected, and find the file 'header.php', click to open.
# Open a new tab or window and go to your WOT profile, then 'My Sites', click on 'Verify', where is says 'Authentication method:' select 'Meta Tag' and copy the code displayed.
# Switch back to your WordPress Tab/Window, and look for the following code: </head> just before that code, paste the WOT meta tag you copied, then click on 'Update File'.
# Once the file is updated, switch back to your WOT Tab/Window and click 'Verify'

=== Keyword ===
If you cannot place a new meta tag in your home page, add the generated (alphanumeric) ''WOT_keyword'' to the end of your list of keywords.
<pre><meta name="keyword" content="keyword,keyword,WOT_keyword" /></pre>
remember to separate keywords with a comma adding no space for valid formatting.
reference: [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.3W3C:Meta data profiles]

'''Note:'''
The HTML file name or the META tag / Keyword content will change if
you login using a different account or if
you delete the site from ''My Sites'' before verifying it.

== Site has been verified ==
After you have verified your site with WOT, you may remove the META tag, generated Keyword, or the uploaded HTML file.

== Website description ==

By default, WOT incorporates the Meta Description on the domain's scorecard.
<pre><meta name="description" content="website description" /></pre>

This description can be changed on the Scorecard if the site is verified.
# Open the ''My Sites'' page in your profile
# Click ''Edit'' in the options column of your verified site
# Enter the new description in the text input block
# Click ''Save''

== Free hosts ==
You can claim a site as yours as long as the site is either a domain name
* example.com
Or the site is a subdomain
* my_site.example.com
and you can either include the Meta Tag or generated Keyword into the header of the (generated) index page, or FTP the HTML file.

If your site is contained within a URL, you cannot add it to your ''My Sites''

WOT does not rate URL's

== Mediawiki ==
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/32072-claiming-a-wiki Claim a w has successfully used one of these extensions to verify their wiki in their WOT user profile, please reply to the forum discussion.</blockquote>

Verify your website

2013-10-22T08:09:18Z

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{{RightTOC}}
You must [https://www.mywot.com/user/register register an account] to associate your website(s) to.

==Claim your site ==

Go to your user [https://www.mywot.com/user/ profile].

Click on the ''My Sites'' menu tab.

Enter your site's domain name in the text input box. Click '''Add'''.
You should now see that WOT added the domain to ''your sites'' list.

; ''Subdomains''
: Please do not claim and verify subdomains if you are the owner of the root (parent) domain. Subdomains [[Rating_subdomains|inherit]] the root domain's reputation.

== Verify ==
WOT verification creates a unique string to use to claim your domain. This string can be in the form of a META Tag, a Keyword, or an HTML file.

Since the string is unique to the domain, if you are adding and verifying multiple domains, you'll need to compete this process for each. You cannot use 1 verification code for more than 1 domain.

Click on the '''[verify]''' link.
You will be presented with a drop-down select menu with the following two choices:
=== HTML file ===
# Download the '''.html file''' and upload it to http://chin2dj.tk. Do '''not''' edit the filename or contents.
# Make sure that you can view http://chin2dj.tk/mywot_uploaded_file.html in your browser '''before''' verifying your site.
# Once the file is viewable, return to your profile and click the '''Verify''' submit button.
<blockquote>''Note'': If our servers cannot access the verification file, the problem is usually due to an incorrectly configured web server on the other end. Sometimes web servers refuse to serve clients who don't send some specific headers in the request, for example. Please send us a [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/general support request] and we'll see why it is failing for your site.</blockquote>
This choice requires having FTP access.

=== Meta tag ===
# Copy the generated meta tag, and paste it into your site's home page. It should go in the <head> section, before the first <body> section. <code><meta name="wot-verification" content="mywot_generated_code"/></code>
# Return to your profile and click the '''Verify''' submit button.

You can use your CMS control panel to edit your page and insert the META tag or you can FTP your modified page.

==== Google sites ====
credit: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/25586-cannot-verify-i-am-the-owner-of-a-google-sites-hosted-site?comment=155146#comment-155146 Amobirius]
# Copy the generated META tag information from your Profile > My sites > Verify
# Sign in to your Control Panel
# Click more -> Manage Site
# navigate to Google Webmaster Tools
# paste the Meta tag code
# click Save
# return to WOT profile; click Verify

==== Wordpress ====
credit: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/15946-claiming-problem?comment=109166#comment-109166 mentalist3d]
# Login to your site and go to the dashboard.
:: Once in the Dashboard go to 'Appearance > Editor'
:: In the editor screen make sure your current theme is selected, and find the file 'header.php', click to open.
# Open a new tab or window and go to your WOT profile, then 'My Sites', click on 'Verify', where is says 'Authentication method:' select 'Meta Tag' and copy the code displayed.
# Switch back to your WordPress Tab/Window, and look for the following code: </head> just before that code, paste the WOT meta tag you copied, then click on 'Update File'.
# Once the file is updated, switch back to your WOT Tab/Window and click 'Verify'

=== Keyword ===
If you cannot place a new meta tag in your home page, add the generated (alphanumeric) ''WOT_keyword'' to the end of your list of keywords.
<pre><meta name="keyword" content="keyword,keyword,WOT_keyword" /></pre>
remember to separate keywords with a comma adding no space for valid formatting.
reference: [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.3W3C:Meta data profiles]

'''Note:'''
The HTML file name or the META tag / Keyword content will change if
you login using a different account or if
you delete the site from ''My Sites'' before verifying it.

== Site has been verified ==
After you have verified your site with WOT, you may remove the META tag, generated Keyword, or the uploaded HTML file.

== Website description ==

By default, WOT incorporates the Meta Description on the domain's scorecard.
<pre><meta name="description" content="website description" /></pre>

This description can be changed on the Scorecard if the site is verified.
# Open the ''My Sites'' page in your profile
# Click ''Edit'' in the options column of your verified site
# Enter the new description in the text input block
# Click ''Save''

== Free hosts ==
You can claim a site as yours as long as the site is either a domain name
* example.com
Or the site is a subdomain
* my_site.example.com
and you can either include the Meta Tag or generated Keyword into the header of the (generated) index page, or FTP the HTML file.

If your site is contained within a URL, you cannot add it to your ''My Sites''

WOT does not rate URL's

== Mediawiki ==
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/32072-claiming-a-wiki Claim a w has successfully used one of these extensions to verify their wiki in their WOT user profile, please reply to the forum discussion.</blockquote>

WOT Wiki:Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

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The protection of PII is important to maintain public trust and confidence in an organization, to protect the reputation of an organization, and to protect against legal liability for an organization. Organizations have always considered trust, confidence, and reputation as motivating factors in protecting PII. Recently, organizations have become more concerned about the risk of legal liability due to the enactment of many US federal, state, and international privacy laws.

==Examples of PII Data==
The following list contains examples of information that may be considered PII.

* Name, such as full name, maiden name, mother’s maiden name, or alias

* Personal identification number (PIN), such as your Social Security Number (SSN), passport number, driver’s license number, taxpayer identification number, patient identification number, and financial account or credit card number.

* Address information, such as street address or email address.

* Asset information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) or Media Access Control (MAC) address or other host-specific persistent static identifier that consistently links to a particular person or small, well-defined group of people.

* Telephone numbers, including mobile, business, and personal numbers.

* Personal characteristics, including photographic image (especially of face or other distinguishing characteristic), x-rays, fingerprints, or other biometric image or template data (e.g., retina scans, voice signature, facial geometry).

* Information identifying personally owned property, such as vehicle registration or identification number, and title numbers and related information.

* Information about an individual that is linked or linkable to one of the above (e.g., date of birth, place of birth, race, religion, weight, activities, or employment, medical, education, or financial information).

===Source===
NIST Special Publication 800-122 [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf PDF]
<blockquote>National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-122 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-122, 59 pages (Apr. 2010) ''Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930''</blockquote>

===Web forms / registrations===
If your site has a simple web form to email script or simple forum / newsletter subscription registration most likely you are not gathering any ''personally identifiable information''. If you request a name without requiring first and last names, any "name" can be given
====Examples of non-PII====
; A simple Contact Us form requesting :
:* İbrahim Kiraz
:* info@hemenaldim.com
:* wwww.hemenaldim.com
:* E-commerce
:* message

; Site / Forum registration requesting :
:* hemenaldim
:* hemenaldim
:* 125275
:* 10/08/2013
:* info@hemenaldim.com

; Newsletter subscription :
:* info@hemenaldim.com

====Examples of PII====
; A Contact Us form ''requesting'' :
:* name
:* address
:* city / state / province
:* zip-code / postal code
:* phone / mobile number
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration ''requiring'' :
:* first name
:* last name
:* User name
:* location / address (full or partial)
:* phone / mobile number
:* Password
:* Date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

==Australian Data Protection Act==
[https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/australia Privacy International Australia report]
<blockquote>The Australian Senate on 6 December 2000 approved the [http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill] which extends privacy protections to the private sector. The bill was strongly criticized by privacy advocates and the opposition political party as being far too weak. [http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/SenatePBSub2000.html Commentary] by privacy expert Roger Clarke who describes the bill as "the world's worst privacy legislation." The European Commission has also expressed concern that the law would not be adequate for trans-border data flows.</blockquote>
[http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Advisory Report on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000]

Also reference: [http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/privacy.html Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.]

==Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act==
===Individual rights===
* know why an organization collects, uses or discloses their personal information;
* ''more''
===Organizations requirements===
* obtain consent when they collect, use or disclose their personal information;
* ''more''

sources:
* Wikipedia [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection_and_Electronic_Documents_Act article]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/ Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (2000, c. 5)]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/P-21/index.html Privacy Act (R.S., 1985, c. P-21)]

==Dutch / Netherlands==
* The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Ducth DPA) : http://www.dutchdpa.nl/
: ''supervises the fair and lawful use and security of your personal data, to ensure your privacy today and in the future.''

==European Union Data Protection Directive==

''officially Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data''

The '''Data Protection Directive''' is a European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data within the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/European_Union European Union].

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive Wikipedia entry]

===European Commission: Justice and Home affairs===
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/index_en.htm Data Protection]
: (alternate) [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm Protection of personal data]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/doc_centre/privacy/law/index_en.htm Legislative documents]

==Hungary Data Protection Bill==
* [http://abiweb.obh.hu/dpc/ Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information]
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/hungary.htm visit]

==Finland / Sweden==
Information security and protection of privacy in electronic communications.
* Finlex : http://www.finlex.fi/
* Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) : http://www.ficora.fi/
*: [http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040516.pdf Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (PPEC 516/2004)] (PDF - English translation)

==Federative Republic of Brazil==

Article 5 of the 1988 Constitution of Brazil provides that ''"the privacy, private life, honor and image of persons are inviolable, and the right to compensation for property or moral damages resulting from their violation is ensured."''

Reference:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/brazil.htm visit]

==India Privacy Laws==

No specific legislation pertaining to data protection and privacy has been enacted in India. The Indian government is currently considering the idea of enacting a detailed law on data protection under the initiative of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

References:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/india.htm visit]
* dsci.in - [http://www.dsci.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=79 visit]

==New Zealand==

* The Privacy Commissioner's Office - [http://privacy.org.nz/ visit]
* Privacy Act 1993 - [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0028/latest/DLM296639.html visit]

==UK Data Protection Act 1998==

[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=3190610 Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29)] 
[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 Wikipedia article]
<blockquote>The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy, it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the European Directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data. In practice it provides a way for individuals to control information about themselves.</blockquote>

== United States ==

United States privacy law embodies several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain. Public figures have less privacy, and this is an evolving area of law as it relates to the media.

The essence of the law derives from a right to privacy, defined broadly as "the right to be let alone." It usually excludes personal matters or activities which may reasonably be of public interest, like those of celebrities or participants in newsworthy events. Invasion of the right to privacy can be the basis for a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity violating the right. These include the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unwarranted search or seizure, the First Amendment right to free assembly, and the Fourteenth Amendment due process right, recognized by the Supreme Court as protecting a general right to privacy within family, marriage, motherhood, procreation, and child rearing.

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_States Wikipedia - Privacy laws of the United States]

=== California's Online Privacy Protection Act ===

According to California's Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA), all online businesses that "collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California" must have a [[Privacy Policy]] on its website. If a website fails to add a Privacy Policy within 30 days of being notified to do so, then it is in violation of this Act.
[http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 California Law Code]

=== US Information Technology Law ===

* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/ttlf/law/us/it/ law.stanford.edu]

== Other countries - data protection ==
* Austria [AT] : http://www.dsk.gv.at/
* Belgium [BE] : http://www.privacy.fgov.be/
* Bulgaria [BG] : http://www.cpdp.bg/
* Cyprus [CY] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy/
* Czech Republic [CZ] : http://www.uoou.cz/
* Denmark [DK] : http://www.datatilsynet.dk/
* Estonia [EE] : http://www.dp.gov.ee/?js=1
* Finland [FI] : http://www.tietosuoja.fi/
* France [FR] : http://www.cnil.fr/
* Germany [DE] : http://www.bfd.bund.de/
* Greece [GR] : http://www.dpa.gr/
* Hungary [HU] : http://www.obh.hu/
* Ireland [IE] : http://www.dataprivacy.ie/
* Iceland [IS]: http://www.personuvernd.is/tolvunefnd.nsf/pages/index.html
* Italy [IT] : http://www.garanteprivacy.it/
* Latvia [LV] : http://www.dvi.gov.lv/
* Liechtenstein [LI] : http://www.dss.llv.li/
* Lithuania [LT] : http://www.ada.lt/
* Luxembourg [LU] : http://www.cnpd.lu/
* Malta [MT] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.mt/
* Norway [NO] : http://www.datatilsynet.no/
* Netherlands [NL] : http://www.cbpweb.nl/
* Portugal [PT] : http://www.cnpd.pt/
* Poland [PL] : http://www.giodo.gov.pl/
* United Kingdom [UK]: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
* Romania [RO] : http://www.dataprotection.ro/
* Slovakia [SK] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Slovenia [SI] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Spain [ES] : http://www.agpd.es/
* Sweden [SE] : http://www.datainspektionen.se/
* Switzerland [CH] : http://www.edsb.ch/
*: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/235_1/index.html

 
see also: [[Privacy Policy|Privacy Policy]]

2013 beta

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Sami: /* Testing */

In 2013, seven years after WOT's initial release, the add-on was redesigned to reduce complexity, increase transparency, and allow for a more intuitive user experience.

== Announcements ==
These blog posts highlight various stages of this redesign including the initial announcement:
* Wed 07 Aug 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/445-the-new-wot-beta-now-available-also-for-firefox The New WOT Beta Now Available also for Firefox]
* Tue 18 Jun 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/441-the-new-wot-beta-is-now-released The New WOT Beta is now Released!]
* Mon 17 Jun 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/newwot Introducing the new WOT beta]
* Tue 14 May 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/436-the-next-chapter-a-shiny-new-wot-is-on-the-way The next chapter: A shiny new WOT is on the way!]

== Reporting ==
Reporting threads:
* June 2013
: Open βeta
: Browser: Google Chrome or other Chromium based browser.
: August 2013 introduced browser: Firefox
: testing feedback thread: [http://www.mywot.com/beta/introducing-the-new-wot-betaIntroducing the new WOT beta]

* May 2013
: Closed βeta (‘stealth mode’)
: Browser: Google Chrome or other Chromium based browser.
: [http://www.mywot.com/beta/installation-instructions Installation instructions]
: bug reporting thread: [http://www.mywot.com/beta/sneakpreview Take a sneak peek at the brand new WOT!]

== Testing ==
The WOT Staff would like to extend their gratitude to the following users who have elected to take some time and offer feedback for improvement as well as submitting bug reports during the several months of βeta testing:

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2013 beta

2013-09-04T07:15:14Z

Sami: /* Testing */

In 2013, seven years after WOT's initial release, the add-on was redesigned to reduce complexity, increase transparency, and allow for a more intuitive user experience.

== Announcements ==
These blog posts highlight various stages of this redesign including the initial announcement:
* Wed 07 Aug 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/445-the-new-wot-beta-now-available-also-for-firefox The New WOT Beta Now Available also for Firefox]
* Tue 18 Jun 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/441-the-new-wot-beta-is-now-released The New WOT Beta is now Released!]
* Mon 17 Jun 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/newwot Introducing the new WOT beta]
* Tue 14 May 2013
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/436-the-next-chapter-a-shiny-new-wot-is-on-the-way The next chapter: A shiny new WOT is on the way!]

== Reporting ==
Reporting threads:
* June 2013
: Open βeta
: Browser: Google Chrome or other Chromium based browser.
: August 2013 introduced browser: Firefox
: testing feedback thread: [http://www.mywot.com/beta/introducing-the-new-wot-betaIntroducing the new WOT beta]

* May 2013
: Closed βeta (‘stealth mode’)
: Browser: Google Chrome or other Chromium based browser.
: [http://www.mywot.com/beta/installation-instructions Installation instructions]
: bug reporting thread: [http://www.mywot.com/beta/sneakpreview Take a sneak peek at the brand new WOT!]

== Testing ==
The WOT Staff would like to extend their gratitude to the following users who have elected to take some time and offer feedback for improvement as well as submitting bug reports during the several months of βeta testing:

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Internet Explorer

2013-09-02T13:47:40Z

Sami: /* Development notes */

Internet Explorer

2013-09-02T13:47:31Z

Sami:

The add-on requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer (10.0 recommended).

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [https://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [https://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==

[https://www.mywot.com/download/ie Download the Add-on] from our website.

== Development notes ==

You'll need Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html libpng], and [http://www.boost.org/ the Boost library] to compile the add-on. Some tweaks to paths in the project files are most likely also required.

If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to [mailto:support@mywot.com email us patches] for improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
* 20130902 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20130902-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Removes deprecated rating components
** Adds support for Enhanced Protected Mode for 64-bit IE 10+
* 20120802 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20120802-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes issues activating the add-on on the welcome page for various IE versions
** Fixes code page issues on warning and blocking screens for languages that use multibyte characters
** Fixes pop-up positioning in search results when zooming
** Uses a smaller 19x19px toolbar button to better fit the IE toolbar
** Enables ASLR and DEP in the add-on binary
* 20111107 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 20110928 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110928-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Adds support for 64-bit IE
* 20110720 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110720-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Reduces load time
* 20110704 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translation for ko-KR
* 20101220 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101220-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed registry issues with protected mode when IE is run both as administrator and as a normal user.
* 20100830 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100830-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed dynamic Google search results.
* 20100303 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100303-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed rating window positioning for multiple monitors.
* ...

Internet Explorer

2013-09-02T13:47:03Z

Sami:

The add-on requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer (9.0 recommended).

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [https://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [https://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==

[https://www.mywot.com/download/ie Download the Add-on] from our website.

== Development notes ==

You'll need Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html libpng], and [http://www.boost.org/ the Boost library] to compile the add-on. Some tweaks to paths in the project files are most likely also required.

If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to [mailto:support@mywot.com email us patches] for improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
* 20130902 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20130902-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Removes deprecated rating components
** Adds support for Enhanced Protected Mode for 64-bit IE 10+
* 20120802 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20120802-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes issues activating the add-on on the welcome page for various IE versions
** Fixes code page issues on warning and blocking screens for languages that use multibyte characters
** Fixes pop-up positioning in search results when zooming
** Uses a smaller 19x19px toolbar button to better fit the IE toolbar
** Enables ASLR and DEP in the add-on binary
* 20111107 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 20110928 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110928-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Adds support for 64-bit IE
* 20110720 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110720-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Reduces load time
* 20110704 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translation for ko-KR
* 20101220 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101220-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed registry issues with protected mode when IE is run both as administrator and as a normal user.
* 20100830 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100830-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed dynamic Google search results.
* 20100303 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100303-msie.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed rating window positioning for multiple monitors.
* ...

API

2013-07-16T13:09:54Z

Sami: /* Introduction */

This document contains the technical specification of the WOT API v0.4 and it's aimed at developers implementing software that uses WOT services.

== Terms and conditions ==
Before you continue, notice that in addition to [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service], which apply to all WOT services, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply for using the API.

=== Registration ===
You need an API key to use the public API. In order to request a key, you need a WOT account. Once you have an account, you can [http://www.mywot.com/profile/api request your API key from this page]. After you have requested a key, you will see an API tab in your profile where you can update the information and access the key.

Note: any previous public APIs that did not require registration are deprecated.

== Introduction ==
The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using ratings received from users and information from third-party sources. This section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts you will need to know to develop applications that use reputation data.

=== Targets ===
Reputations are computed for websites, or ''targets'', which are identified primarily by their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS] names. If a DNS name is not available for a target, an IPv4 or IPv6 address may be used instead. WOT also supports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names] (IDN), which must be encoded to an ASCII representation as described in RFC 3490. For example:
ääkkönen.fi = xn--kknen-fraa0m.fi

=== Reputations ===
Reputations are measured for targets in several ''components''. For each <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair, the system computes two values: a reputation estimate and the confidence in the reputation. Together, these indicate the amount of trust in the target in the given component.

==== Components ====
Reputation components are identified by numbers. These are the current components and their definitions:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Component identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Example
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 0
| Trustworthiness
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How much do you trust this site?”
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 4
| Child safety
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How suitable is this site for children?”
|}

'''Note''': components 1 and 2 are deprecated. The API will continue returning data for these components to preserve compatibility, but the components should not be used in new applications. Those interested in the type of information that was included in the deprecated components are encouraged to look into [[#Categories|categories]] below.

==== Reputation and confidence values ====
The reputation ''r'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} is the estimate of the collective trust for the target in the given component. The higher the value, the more the community trusts the website. These are the definitions for the reputation values:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation value
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 15px;" | Symbol
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 80
| Excellent
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 60
| Good
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_good.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 40
| Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 20
| Poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 0
| Very poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]]
|}

WOT uses this visual representation to indicate reputations: [[File:ReputationHelp.png]]

[[File:ConfidenceSample.png|left]] The confidence ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} indicates the estimated reliability of the reputation ''r'' for the <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair. Again, the higher the value, the more reliable the system considers the reputation estimate.

You should use the confidence value to determine whether an action based on a poor reputation is warranted. For example, the WOT add-on requires a confidence value of ≥ 10 before it presents a warning about a website. Using a higher confidence threshold will result in fewer false positives, but also means your application will catch fewer poorly rated sites. You are encouraged to experiment with different confidence thresholds to see which suits your application the best.

=== Categories ===
In addition to reputations, the rating system also computes categories for websites based on votes from users and third parties. Category data aims to explain the reason behind a poor reputation, and you can use the information to more specifically determine what type of action to take when coming across a poorly rated site. The current categories are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 101
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Malware or viruses
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 102
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor customer experience
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 103
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Phishing
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 104
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Scam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 105
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially illegal
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 201
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Misleading claims or unethical
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 202
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Privacy risks
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 203
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Suspicious
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 204
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Hate, discrimination
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 205
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Spam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 206
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially unwanted programs
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 207
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Ads / pop-ups
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Neutral
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 301
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Online tracking
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 302
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Alternative or controversial medicine
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 303
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Opinions, religion, politics
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 304
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Other
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 501
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good site
|}

The following categories provide additional information about child safety:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 401
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Adult content
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 402
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Incidental nudity
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 403
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gruesome or shocking
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 404
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site for kids
|}

For each category, the reputation system also computes a confidence value ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100}, similarly to reputations. The higher the value, the more reliable the category assignment can be considered. If you use categories to determine the severity of a poor reputation, you may want to use a lower confidence threshold for the category data.

WOT uses this visual representation for category groups and their confidence: [[File:CategoryHelp.png]]

=== Third-party blacklists ===
If a website is included in a third-party blacklist and it's possible that this blacklisting affects its reputation, the API will return information about the type of blacklist the site was found in, and when the site was last added there. Here are the current blacklist types:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Blacklist type
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | malware
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting malware.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | phishing
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a phishing page.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | scam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a scam (e.g. a rogue pharmacy).
|}

Note that if a site appears on multiple third-party blacklists of the same type, the latest time it was added to either one of them will be returned.

== Requests ==
The API consists of a number of interfaces, all of which are called using normal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] GET requests to <tt>api.mywot.com</tt> and return a response in XML or JSON format if successful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes HTTP status codes] are used for returning error information and parameters are passed using standard URL conventions. The request format is as follows:

http://'''api.mywot.com'''/version/interface?param1=value1&param2=value2

TLS encryption can be used with all interfaces if requests are made from a secure web page to [[#Documentation: Reputation API|the reputation API]], for example.

== Documentation: Reputation API ==

=== public_link_json2 ===
The <tt>public_link_json2</tt> API is used for requesting reputations for multiple targets.

==== Parameters ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid gray; width: 100%;"
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''hosts'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | A list of target names separated with a forward slash (“/”). For example, <tt>www.example.com/another.example.net/onemore.example.org/</tt>. The value must end with a slash and must include at most 100 target names. Note: the full request path must also be less than 8 KiB or it will be rejected.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''callback''' (optional)
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | The name of the callback function for a response in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP JSONP] (JSON with Padding) format.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''key'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | Your [[#Registration|API key]].
|}

==== Return codes ====
If the call is successful, the returned HTTP status code is 200. If a server-side error occurred, the status code is 500. If the request included an invalid API key or incorrect parameters, the status code is 403.

==== Output ====
The API returns a reputations, categories, and third-party blacklist information in a JSON or a JSONP format, depending on whether the <tt>callback</tt> parameter is specified in the request. The format is as follows:

# The response object has one attribute for each target, named by the unchanged target name given in the <tt>hosts</tt> parameter.
# Each target object has a <tt>target</tt> attribute, which contains the normalized [[#Targets|target name]].
# Each target object also has zero or more component attributes with names ∊ {“0”, ...}.
## Each component attribute contains an array with {r, c} values for [[#Reputations|the reputation component]]. If the reputation for a component is not known, the corresponding attribute is omitted from the output.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>categories</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Categories|category identifier attributes]] and their confidence values.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>blacklists</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Third-party blacklists|blacklist type attributes]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time a Unix timestamp] when the site was last added to the third-party source of given type.

==== Example ====
Request:
<nowiki>http://api.mywot.com/0.4/public_link_json2?hosts=example.COM/www.EXAMPLE.NET/&callback=process&key=<your API key></nowiki>
Response:
'''process'''({
"example.COM": {
"target": "example.com",
"0": [ 91, 53 ],
"4": [ 93, 53 ],
"categories": {
"501": 71,
"304": 37
}
},
"www.EXAMPLE.NET": {
"target": "example.net",
"0": [ 9, 43 ],
"categories": {
"101": 54
},
"blacklists": {
"malware": 1362123608
}
}
})

API

2013-07-16T13:00:46Z

Sami: Added categories and third-party blacklist information

This document contains the technical specification of the WOT API v0.4 and it's aimed at developers implementing software that uses WOT services.

== Terms and conditions ==
Before you continue, notice that in addition to [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service], which apply to all WOT services, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply for using the API.

=== Registration ===
You need an API key to use the public API. In order to request a key, you need a WOT account. Once you have an account, you can [http://www.mywot.com/profile/api request your API key from this page]. After you have requested a key, you will see an API tab in your profile where you can update the information and access the key.

Note: any previous public APIs that did not require registration are deprecated.

== Introduction ==
The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using ratings received from users and information collected from third-party sources. This section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts you will need to know to develop applications that use reputation data.

=== Targets ===
Reputations are computed for websites, or ''targets'', which are identified primarily by their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS] names. If a DNS name is not available for a target, an IPv4 or IPv6 address may be used instead. WOT also supports [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names] (IDN), which must be encoded to an ASCII representation as described in RFC 3490. For example:
ääkkönen.fi = xn--kknen-fraa0m.fi

=== Reputations ===
Reputations are measured for targets in several ''components''. For each <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair, the system computes two values: a reputation estimate and the confidence in the reputation. Together, these indicate the amount of trust in the target in the given component.

==== Components ====
Reputation components are identified by numbers. These are the current components and their definitions:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Component identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Example
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 0
| Trustworthiness
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How much do you trust this site?”
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 4
| Child safety
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | “How suitable is this site for children?”
|}

'''Note''': components 1 and 2 are deprecated. The API will continue returning data for these components to preserve compatibility, but the components should not be used in new applications. Those interested in the type of information that was included in the deprecated components are encouraged to look into [[#Categories|categories]] below.

==== Reputation and confidence values ====
The reputation ''r'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} is the estimate of the collective trust for the target in the given component. The higher the value, the more the community trusts the website. These are the definitions for the reputation values:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation value
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 15px;" | Symbol
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 80
| Excellent
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 60
| Good
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_good.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 40
| Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 20
| Poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | ≥ 0
| Very poor
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]]
|}

WOT uses this visual representation to indicate reputations: [[File:ReputationHelp.png]]

[[File:ConfidenceSample.png|left]] The confidence ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100} indicates the estimated reliability of the reputation ''r'' for the <tt>{target, component}</tt> pair. Again, the higher the value, the more reliable the system considers the reputation estimate.

You should use the confidence value to determine whether an action based on a poor reputation is warranted. For example, the WOT add-on requires a confidence value of ≥ 10 before it presents a warning about a website. Using a higher confidence threshold will result in fewer false positives, but also means your application will catch fewer poorly rated sites. You are encouraged to experiment with different confidence thresholds to see which suits your application the best.

=== Categories ===
In addition to reputations, the rating system also computes categories for websites based on votes from users and third parties. Category data aims to explain the reason behind a poor reputation, and you can use the information to more specifically determine what type of action to take when coming across a poorly rated site. The current categories are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 101
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Malware or viruses
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 102
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor customer experience
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 103
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Phishing
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 104
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Scam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 105
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially illegal
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 201
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Misleading claims or unethical
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 202
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Privacy risks
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 203
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Suspicious
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 204
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Hate, discrimination
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 205
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Spam
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 206
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Potentially unwanted programs
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 207
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Ads / pop-ups
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Neutral
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 301
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Online tracking
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 302
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Alternative or controversial medicine
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 303
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Opinions, religion, politics
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 304
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Other
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 501
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good site
|}

The following categories provide additional information about child safety:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category group
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Category identifier
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Negative
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 401
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Adult content
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Questionable
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 402
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Incidental nudity
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" |
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 403
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gruesome or shocking
|-
| colspan="3" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Positive
| style="padding-left: 15px;" | 404
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site for kids
|}

For each category, the reputation system also computes a confidence value ''c'' ∊ {0, ..., 100}, similarly to reputations. The higher the value, the more reliable the category assignment can be considered. If you use categories to determine the severity of a poor reputation, you may want to use a lower confidence threshold for the category data.

WOT uses this visual representation for category groups and their confidence: [[File:CategoryHelp.png]]

=== Third-party blacklists ===
If a website is included in a third-party blacklist and it's possible that this blacklisting affects its reputation, the API will return information about the type of blacklist the site was found in, and when the site was last added there. Here are the current blacklist types:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; min-width: 500px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Blacklist type
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | malware
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting malware.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | phishing
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a phishing page.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | scam
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Site is blacklisted for hosting a scam (e.g. a rogue pharmacy).
|}

Note that if a site appears on multiple third-party blacklists of the same type, the latest time it was added to either one of them will be returned.

== Requests ==
The API consists of a number of interfaces, all of which are called using normal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] GET requests to <tt>api.mywot.com</tt> and return a response in XML or JSON format if successful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes HTTP status codes] are used for returning error information and parameters are passed using standard URL conventions. The request format is as follows:

http://'''api.mywot.com'''/version/interface?param1=value1&param2=value2

TLS encryption can be used with all interfaces if requests are made from a secure web page to [[#Documentation: Reputation API|the reputation API]], for example.

== Documentation: Reputation API ==

=== public_link_json2 ===
The <tt>public_link_json2</tt> API is used for requesting reputations for multiple targets.

==== Parameters ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid gray; width: 100%;"
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''hosts'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | A list of target names separated with a forward slash (“/”). For example, <tt>www.example.com/another.example.net/onemore.example.org/</tt>. The value must end with a slash and must include at most 100 target names. Note: the full request path must also be less than 8 KiB or it will be rejected.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''callback''' (optional)
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | The name of the callback function for a response in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP JSONP] (JSON with Padding) format.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | '''key'''
|-
| style="padding-left: 25px;" | Your [[#Registration|API key]].
|}

==== Return codes ====
If the call is successful, the returned HTTP status code is 200. If a server-side error occurred, the status code is 500. If the request included an invalid API key or incorrect parameters, the status code is 403.

==== Output ====
The API returns a reputations, categories, and third-party blacklist information in a JSON or a JSONP format, depending on whether the <tt>callback</tt> parameter is specified in the request. The format is as follows:

# The response object has one attribute for each target, named by the unchanged target name given in the <tt>hosts</tt> parameter.
# Each target object has a <tt>target</tt> attribute, which contains the normalized [[#Targets|target name]].
# Each target object also has zero or more component attributes with names ∊ {“0”, ...}.
## Each component attribute contains an array with {r, c} values for [[#Reputations|the reputation component]]. If the reputation for a component is not known, the corresponding attribute is omitted from the output.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>categories</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Categories|category identifier attributes]] and their confidence values.
# Each target object also may have a <tt>blacklists</tt> attribute, which contains one or more [[#Third-party blacklists|blacklist type attributes]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time a Unix timestamp] when the site was last added to the third-party source of given type.

==== Example ====
Request:
<nowiki>http://api.mywot.com/0.4/public_link_json2?hosts=example.COM/www.EXAMPLE.NET/&callback=process&key=<your API key></nowiki>
Response:
'''process'''({
"example.COM": {
"target": "example.com",
"0": [ 91, 53 ],
"4": [ 93, 53 ],
"categories": {
"501": 71,
"304": 37
}
},
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Sami:

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Source code

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Sami:

Safari

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Sami: Reverted edits by Swagger101@yahoo.com (Talk) to last revision by Sorgoz

[[File:Wotsafari.png|300px|thumb|right|Version 0.2 on Mac OS X.]]
The add-on requires Safari 5 or later, and works on all supported platforms.

== Terms and conditions ==
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the GNU General Public License] for more details.

Please notice that [http://www.mywot.com/terms the Terms of Service] apply to all WOT services. If you use the software or the API as a part of your own application or redistribute and modify the software, [http://www.mywot.com/terms/api the API Terms of Service] apply too.

== Downloads ==
* [http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-latest.safariextz Download the add-on] from our website.

After installing, you can always update to the latest supported version from Preferences -> Extensions -> Updates.

== Development notes ==
If you are interested in participating in the development process, you are welcome to make [https://github.com/mywot/safari/pulls pull requests] with improvements and bug fixes.

== Version history ==
* 1.6 ([https://github.com/mywot/safari/zipball/20111213 source code on GitHub])
** jQuery is upgraded to 1.7.1, some bugs fixed
* 1.5 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111107-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Clarifies warning texts
** Fixes potential issues with the settings page
* 1.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20111020-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Improves performance on sites with a lot of frames or social sharing buttons
** Upgraded jQuery to 1.6.4
* 1.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110714-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Fixes warning thresholds in the previous version
** Fixes the rating symbol shown on the web page in colorblind accessible mode
** Adds an option to the advanced settings to disable showing the rating on the page
* 1.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110704-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Adds translations for ko-KR
* 1.1 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20110323-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Adds ratings to Facebook, Twitter, and shortened URLs.
** Updated the version number to match other add-ons with the same code base.
* 0.4 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20101204-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed encoding of shared host names (on twitter.com, for example).
** Upgraded to jQuery 1.4.4
* 0.3 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100712-safari.tar.gz source code])
** Fixed rating window and rating indicator issues on sites that use frames
* 0.2 ([http://www.mywot.com/files/downloads/wot-20100628-safari.tar.gz source code])
** First public release

== Blog announcement ==
[http://www.mywot.com/blog/259-attention-safari-users-wot-is-available-for-you-too Attention Safari users! WOT is available for you too!] ''Tue 29 Jun 2010''

It's official. The WOT add-on is now available for the Safari browser (Safari 5 or later). It was challenging for our developers, but not because building a WOT extension for Safari is technically difficult. The reason is simple, but a bit mystifying at first.

The Safari toolbar's color scheme is in a gray palette. WOT's icons are traffic-light colored; green, yellow and red. So unless a whole new toolbar would be allocated just for the WOT icon (which I doubt you would want, since that's valuable real estate), it took a little quirky creativity.
Quirky WOT icons for Safari

Instead of seeing a green icon in the toolbar to denote a site with an excellent or good WOT rating, you will see a gray icon with a check-mark...

read the [http://www.mywot.com/blog/259-attention-safari-users-wot-is-available-for-you-too article]

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