Google Autocomplete is a feature within Google Search that improves the search experience by allowing users to complete searches they started to type. DataForSEO SERP API will provide you with all the suggestions Google Autocomplete offers for a particular keyword, the position of the cursor pointer, and the search client.
Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard
# Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard \
login="login" \
password="password" \
cred="$(printf ${login}:${password} | base64)" \
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post' \
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-raw '[
{
"language_code": "en",
"location_code": 2840,
"keyword": "albert einstein",
"cursor_pointer": 6
}
]'
<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
try {
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
echo "\n";
print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}\n";
print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}\n";
print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}\n";
print $e->getTraceAsString();
echo "\n";
exit();
}
$post_array = array();
// example #1 - a simple way to set a task
// this way requires you to specify a location, a language of search, and a keyword.
$post_array[] = array(
"language_code" => "en",
"location_code" => 2840,
"keyword" => "albert einstein",
"cursor_pointer" => "6"
);
// example #2 - a way to set a task with additional parameters
// after a task is completed, we will send a GET request to the address you specify. Instead of $id and $tag, you will receive actual values that are relevant to this task.
$post_array[] = array(
"language_name" => "English",
"location_name" => "United States",
"keyword" => "albert einstein",
"cursor_pointer" => 6,
"tag" => "some_string_123",
"pingback_url" => 'https://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag'
);
// this example has 2 elements, but in the case of large number of tasks - send up to 100 elements per POST request
if (count($post_array) > 0) {
try {
// POST /v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
$result = $client->post('/v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post', $post_array);
print_r($result);
// do something with post result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
echo "\n";
print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}\n";
print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}\n";
print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}\n";
print $e->getTraceAsString();
echo "\n";
}
}
$client = null;
?>
from client import RestClient
# You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/python/python_Client.zip
client = RestClient("login", "password")
post_data = dict()
# example #1 - a simple way to set a task
# this way requires you to specify a location, a language of search, and a keyword.
post_data[len(post_data)] = dict(
language_code="en",
location_code=2840,
keyword="albert einstein",
cursor_pointer=6
)
# example #2 - a way to set a task with additional parameters
# after a task is completed, we will send a GET request to the address you specify. Instead of $id and $tag, you will receive actual values that are relevant to this task.
post_data[len(post_data)] = dict(
language_name="English",
location_name="United States",
keyword="albert einstein",
cursor_pointer=6,
tag="some_string_123",
pingback_url="https://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag"
)
# POST /v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post
# the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
response = client.post("/v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post", post_data)
# you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if response["status_code"] == 20000:
print(response)
# do something with result
else:
print("error. Code: %d Message: %s" % (response["status_code"], response["status_message"]))
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace DataForSeoDemos
{
public static partial class Demos
{
public static async Task serp_task_post()
{
var httpClient = new HttpClient
{
BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.dataforseo.com/"),
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard
DefaultRequestHeaders = { Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("login:password"))) }
};
var postData = new List<object>();
// example #1 - a simple way to set a task
// this way requires you to specify a location, a language of search, and a keyword.
postData.Add(new
{
language_code = "en",
location_code = 2840,
keyword = "albert einstein",
cursor_pointer = 6
});
// example #2 - a way to set a task with additional parameters
// after a task is completed, we will send a GET request to the address you specify. Instead of $id and $tag, you will receive actual values that are relevant to this task.
postData.Add(new
{
language_name = "English",
location_name = "United States",
keyword = "albert einstein",
cursor_pointer = 6,
tag = "some_string_123",
pingback_url = "https://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag"
});
// POST /v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
var taskPostResponse = await httpClient.PostAsync("/v3/serp/google/autocomplete/task_post", new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(postData)));
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(await taskPostResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
// you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if (result.status_code == 20000)
{
// do something with result
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
else
Console.WriteLine($"error. Code: {result.status_code} Message: {result.status_message}");
}
}
}
The above command returns JSON structured like this:
All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). The task setting is done using the POST method. When setting a task, you should send all task parameters in the task array of the generic POST array. You can send up to 2000 API calls per minute, with each POST call containing no more than 100 tasks. If your POST call contains over 100 tasks, the tasks over this limit will return the 40006 error. Visit DataForSEO Help Center to get practical tips for request handling depending on your SERP API payload volume.
You can retrieve the results of completed tasks using the unique task identifier id. Alternatively, we can send them to you as soon as they are ready if you specify the postback_url or pingback_url when setting a task. Note that if your server doesn’t respond within 10 seconds, the connection will be aborted by timeout, and the task will be transferred to the ‘Tasks Ready’ list. The error code and message depend on your server’s configuration. See Help Center to learn more about using pingbacks and postbacks with DataForSEO APIs.
Below you will find a detailed description of the fields you can use for setting a task.
Description of the fields for setting a task:
Field name
Type
Description
keyword
string
keyword required field
you can specify up to 700 characters in the keyword field
all %## will be decoded (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)
if you need to use the “%” character for your keyword, please specify it as “%25”;
if you need to use the “+” character for your keyword, please specify it as “%2B”;
learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article
priority
integer
task priority
optional field
can take the following values:
1 – normal execution priority (set by default);
2 – high execution priority
location_name
string
full name of search engine location required field if you don’t specifylocation_code if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_code;
you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their location_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/autocomplete/locations
example: London,England,United Kingdom
location_code
integer
search engine location code required field if you don’t specifylocation_name;
you can receive the list of available locations of the search engines with their location_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/locations
example: 2840
language_name
string
full name of search engine language required field if you don’t specifylanguage_code if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_code;
you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their language_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/languages
example: English
language_code
string
search engine language code required field if you don’t specifylanguage_name if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_name;
you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their language_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/languages example: en
cursor_pointer
integer
search bar cursor pointer
optional field
the horizontal numerical position of the cursor pointer within the keyword in the search bar;
by modifying the position of the cursor pointer, you will obtain different autocomplete suggestions for the same seed keyword;
minimal value: 0
default value: the number of the last character of the specified keyword
example: |which query are s – "cursor_pointer": 0 which query is s| – "cursor_pointer": 16 which que|ry is s – "cursor_pointer": 9
client
string
search client for autocomplete
optional field
autocomplete results may differ depending on the search client;
possible values: chrome — used when google search is opened in google chrome; chrome-omni — used in the address bar in chrome; gws-wiz — used in google search home page; gws-wiz-serp — used in google search engine results page; safari — used when google search is opened in safari browser; firefox — used when google search is opened in firefox browser; psy-ab — may be used when google search is opened in google chrome browser; toolbar — returns XML; youtube — returns JSONP; gws-wiz-local — used in google local; img — used in google’s image search; products-cc — used in google shopping search
tag
string
user-defined task identifier
optional field the character limit is 255
you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result
you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response
postback_url
string
return URL for sending task results
optional field
once the task is completed, we will send a POST request with its results compressed in the gzip format to the postback_url you specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request
example: http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id&tag=$tag Note: special characters in postback_url will be url-encoded;
i.e., the # character will be encoded into %23
postback_url datatype required field if you specify postback_url
corresponds to the datatype that will be sent to your server
possible values: advanced
pingback_url
string
notification URL of a completed task
optional field
when a task is completed we will notify you by GET request sent to the URL you have specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.
example: http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag Note: special characters in pingback_url will be urlencoded;
i.a., the # character will be encoded into %23
As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.
Description of the fields in the results array:
Field name
Type
Description
version
string
the current version of the API
status_code
integer
general status code
you can find the full list of the response codes here Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
status_message
string
general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time
string
execution time, seconds
cost
float
total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count
integer
the number of tasks in the tasksarray
tasks_error
integer
the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error