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I'm trying to find a programmatic way to get 2 values:

  • a domain's position in the Google results for a specific term
  • the number of Google results for that term

Currently my client is using some scraper software, but there's a manual step involved.

Is there an API I can access that will get me this info? Or should I explore some fully automated scraper method?

(I know this has been asked before, but my question is a little different. Also I'm curious if things have changed since the question was asked previously.) Thanks!

John Conde
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  • Since this answer is closed I'll just add that in 2021 the best resource for this is the Google Search Console: https://search.google.com/search-console/. Once you verify your site with Google, you can then use various NPM libraries which hook up to Google APIs (eg. `google-api-nodejs-client`) to access the information from the search console programmatically, and there is a *wealth* of information about your site's "SEO" available there. – machineghost Apr 27 '21 at 15:44

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We have had great experince using the SEMRush API for this. We actually built http://www.rankpop.com/rankalizer which was with that tool and gives a lot of Google ranking data. Hope this helps!

Dave Conklin
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    The [above link](http://www.rankpop.com/rankalizer) doesn't work, no webserver exists, and I can't get any rankpop.com-based link to work. Is the service dead? And is there any substitute, or alternative? – Johnny Utahh Jun 29 '15 at 20:07
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Basically your left up to scraping...

there are some apis but they never have everything but

SEMRush (paid api) http://www.semrush.com/ or ShutKeys (free) has json export of ranking for free http://shutkeys.com/cartercole.com

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You can find an open source PHP based rank checker for Google at http://rank-checker.squabbel.com You can download the source code directly from there and use it a console based PHP script.

You'd likely want to add MySQL/database support and some sort of in/out queue for keywords/domains.

Flexo
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