Live {{up_se_name}} {{normal_se_type}} SERP HTML
Live SERP HTML provides a raw HTML page of 100 search engine results for the specified keyword, search engine, and location.
Live SERP HTML provides a raw HTML page of 100 search engine results for the specified keyword, search engine, and location.
Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
<?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-access $client = new RestClient($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(); // You can set only one task at a time $post_array[] = array( "language_code" => "en", "location_code" => 2840, "keyword" => mb_convert_encoding("albert einstein", "UTF-8") ); try { // POST /v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/{{low_se_type}}/live/html // in addition to '{{low_se_name}}' and '{{low_se_type}}' you can also set other search engine and type parameters // the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation $result = $client->post('/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/{{low_se_type}}/live/html', $post_array); print_r($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; ?>
The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{ "version": "0.1.20200130", "status_code": 20000, "status_message": "Ok.", "time": "7.7543 sec.", "cost": 0.003, "tasks_count": 1, "tasks_error": 0, "tasks": [ { "id": "01301613-1535-0140-0000-c64ff6de0501", "status_code": 20000, "status_message": "Ok.", "time": "7.6463 sec.", "cost": 0.003, "result_count": 1, "path": [ "v3", "serp", "{{low_se_name}}", "{{low_se_type_under}}", "live", "html" ], "data": { "api": "serp", "function": "live", "se": "{{low_se_name}}", "se_type": "{{low_se_type_under}}", "language_name": "English", "location_name": "United States", "keyword": "albert einstein", "tag": "tag1", "device": "desktop", "os": "windows" }, "result": [ { "keyword": "albert einstein", "type": "organic", "se_domain": "google.com", "location_code": 2840, "language_code": "en", "datetime": "2020-01-30 14:13:54 +0000", "items_count": 1, "items": [ { "page": 1, "date": "2020-01-30 14:13:54 +0000", "html": "<!doctype html><html><head></head></body></html>" } ] } ] } ] }
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, each Live SERP API call can contain only one task.
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 |
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url |
string | direct URL of the search query optional field you can specify a direct URL and we will sort it out to the necessary fields. Note that this method is the most difficult for our API to process and also requires you to specify the exact language and location in the URL. In most cases, we wouldn’t recommend using this method. example: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%20rank%20tracker%20api&hl=en&gl=GB&uule=w+CAIQIFISCXXeIa8LoNhHEZkq1d1aOpZS |
keyword |
string | keyword required field you can specify up to 700 characters in the keyword fieldall %## 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”;if this field contains such parameters as ‘allinanchor:’, ‘allintext:’, ‘allintitle:’, ‘allinurl:’, ‘define:’, ‘filetype:’, ‘id:’, ‘inanchor:’, ‘info:’, ‘intext:’, ‘intitle:’, ‘inurl:’, ‘link:’, ‘related:’, ‘site:’, the charge per task will be multiplied by 5 Note: queries containing the ‘cache:’ parameter are not supported and will return a validation error learn more about rules and limitations of |
location_name |
string | full name of search engine location required field if you don’t specify location_code or location_coordinate if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_code or location_coordinate you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their location_name by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/locations example: London,England,United Kingdom |
location_code |
integer | search engine location code required field if you don’t specify location_name or location_coordinate if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_coordinate you can receive the list of available locations of the search engines with their location_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/locations example: 2840 |
location_coordinate |
string | GPS coordinates of a location required field if you don’t specify location_name or location_code if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_code location_coordinate parameter should be specified in the “latitude,longitude,radius” formatthe maximum number of decimal digits for “latitude” and “longitude”: 7 the minimum value for “radius”: 199.9 (mm) the maximum value for “radius”: 199999 (mm) example: 53.476225,-2.243572,200 |
language_name |
string | full name of search engine language required field if you don’t specify language_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 the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/languages example: English |
language_code |
string | search engine language code required field if you don’t specify language_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/{{low_se_name}}/languages example: en |
os |
string | device operating system optional field note that this API provides results for desktop only choose from the following values: windows , macos default value: windows |
se_domain |
string | search engine domain optional field we choose the relevant search engine domain automatically according to the location and language you specify however, you can set a custom search engine domain in this field example: google.co.uk, google.com.au, google.de, etc. |
depth |
integer | parsing depth optional field number of results in SERP default value: 100 max value: 700 Note: your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 100 results; thus, setting a depth above 100 may result in additional charges if the search engine returns more than 100 results;if the specified depth is higher than the number of results in the response, the difference will be refunded automatically to your account balance |
max_crawl_pages |
integer | page crawl limit optional field number of search results pages to crawl max value: 100 Note: the max_crawl_pages and depth parameters complement each other;learn more at our help center |
search_param |
string | additional parameters of the search query optional field get the list of available parameters and additional details here |
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 |
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 |
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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 tasks array |
tasks_error |
integer | the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error |
tasks |
array | array of tasks |
id |
string | task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format |
status_code |
integer | status code of the task generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000 you can find the full list of the response codes here |
status_message |
string | informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here |
time |
string | execution time, seconds |
cost |
float | cost of the task, USD |
result_count |
integer | number of elements in the result array |
path |
array | URL path |
data |
object | contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request |
result |
array | array of results |
keyword |
string | keyword received in a POST array keyword is returned with decoded %## (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character) |
type |
string | search engine type in a POST array |
se_domain |
string | search engine domain in a POST array |
location_code |
integer | location code in a POST array |
language_code |
string | language code in a POST array |
datetime |
string | date and time when the result was received in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00 |
items_count |
integer | the number of results returned in the items array |
items |
array | elements of search results found in SERP |
page |
integer | serial number of the returned HTML page |
date |
string | date and time when the HTML page was scanned in the format: “year-month-date:minutes:UTC_difference_hours:UTC_difference_minutes” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00 |
html |
string | HTML page |