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Historical Keyword Data

How a keyword's own metrics - volume, competition, cpc - moved over time. This one takes no limit parameter, but it is priced per call rather than per item, so send the whole list at once. Wrapped in DataForSEO's envelope: data in tasks[0].result, outcome in tasks[0].status_code - a rejected request still returns HTTP 200. This tracks the keyword; post_dataforseo_labs_google_historical_rank_live tracks a domain. For the current values use post_dataforseo_labs_google_keyword_overview_live.

Parameters

No path, query, or header parameters.

Request body

keywordsstring[]Required
keywords required field The maximum number of keywords you can specify: 700 The maximum number of characters for each keyword: 80 The maximum number of words for each keyword phrase: 10 the specified keywords will be converted to lowercase format, data will be provided in a separate array note that if some of the keywords specified in this array are omitted in the results you receive, then our database doesn’t contain such keywords and cannot return data on them you will not be charged for the keywords omitted in the results learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article
location_namestringOptional
full name of the location required field if you don’t specify location_code Note: it is required to specify either location_name or location_code you can receive the list of available locations with their location_name by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/locations_and_languages example: United Kingdom
location_codeintegerOptional
location code required field if you don’t specify location_name Note: it is required to specify either location_name or location_code you can receive the list of available locations with their location_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/locations_and_languages example: 2840
language_namestringOptional
full name of the language required field if you don’t specify language_code Note: it is required to specify either language_name or language_code you can receive the list of available locations with their language_name by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/locations_and_languages example: English
language_codestringOptional
language code required field if you don’t specify language_name Note: it is required to specify either language_name or language_code you can receive the list of available locations with their language_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/locations_and_languages example: en
tagstringOptional
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

Example request

curl -X POST "https://openapi.felo.ai/v1/beta/dataforseo/dataforseo_labs/google/historical_keyword_data/live" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FELO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "keywords": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "location_name": "<string>",
  "location_code": 0,
  "language_name": "<string>",
  "language_code": "<string>",
  "tag": "<string>"
}'

Response

Response fields

versionstringOptional
the current version of the API
status_codeintegerOptional
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_messagestringOptional
general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here
timestringOptional
execution time, seconds
costnumberOptional
total tasks cost, USD
tasks_countintegerOptional
the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_errorintegerOptional
the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasksstring[]Optional
array of tasks
idstringOptional
task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
status_codeintegerOptional
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_messagestringOptional
informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here
timestringOptional
execution time, seconds
costnumberOptional
cost of the task, USD
result_countintegerOptional
number of elements in the result array
pathstring[]Optional
URL path
dataobjectOptional
contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
resultstring[]Optional
array of results
se_typestringOptional
search engine type
location_codeintegerOptional
location code in a POST array
language_codestringOptional
language code in a POST array
items_countintegerOptional
the number of results returned in the items array
itemsstring[]Optional
contains keywords and related data
se_typestringOptional
search engine type
keywordstringOptional
keyword keyword is returned with decoded %## (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)
location_codeintegerOptional
location code in a POST array if there is no data, then the value is null
language_codestringOptional
language code in a POST array
historystring[]Optional
array of objects with historical data for the keyword
yearintegerOptional
year
monthintegerOptional
month
keyword_infoobjectOptional
historical data for the keyword
se_typestringOptional
search engine type
last_updated_timestringOptional
date and time when keyword data was updated in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
competitionnumberOptional
competition represents the relative amount of competition associated with the given keyword; the value is based on Google Ads data and can be between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
competition_levelstringOptional
competition level represents the relative level of competition associated with the given keyword in paid SERP only; possible values: LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH if competition level is unknown, the value is null; learn more about the metric in this help center article
cpcnumberOptional
cost-per-click represents the average cost per click (USD) historically paid for the keyword
search_volumeintegerOptional
average monthly search volume rate represents the (approximate) number of searches for the given keyword idea on google.com
low_top_of_page_bidnumberOptional
minimum bid for the ad to be displayed at the top of the first page indicates the value greater than about 20% of the lowest bids for which ads were displayed (based on Google Ads statistics for advertisers) the value may differ depending on the location specified in a POST request
high_top_of_page_bidnumberOptional
maximum bid for the ad to be displayed at the top of the first page indicates the value greater than about 80% of the lowest bids for which ads were displayed (based on Google Ads statistics for advertisers) the value may differ depending on the location specified in a POST request
categoriesstring[]Optional
product and service categories you can download the full list of possible categories
monthly_searchesstring[]Optional
monthly searches represents the (approximate) number of searches on this keyword idea (as available for the past twelve months), targeted to the specified geographic locations
yearintegerOptional
year
monthintegerOptional
month
search_volumeintegerOptional
monthly average search volume rate
search_volume_trendobjectOptional
search volume trend changes represents search volume change in percent compared to the previous period
monthlyintegerOptional
search volume change in percent compared to the previous month
quarterlyintegerOptional
search volume change in percent compared to the previous quarter
yearlyintegerOptional
search volume change in percent compared to the previous year