Setting Google My Business Questions and Answers Tasks

keyword required field the keyword you specify should indicate the name of the local establishment you can specify up to 700 characters in the keyword filed 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”; this field can also be used to pass the following parameters: cid – a unique, google-defined id of the business entity; place_id – an identifier of the business entity in Google Maps; spp – a unique identifier of local services featured in the local_pack element of Google SERP example: cid:194604053573767737 place_id:GhIJQWDl0CIeQUARxks3icF8U8A spp:CgsvZy8xdGN4cWRraBoUChIJPZDrEzLsZIgRoNrpodC5P30 learn more about the cid and place_id identifiers in this help center article learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article

parsing depth optional field number of question rows in the result default value: 20 max value: 700 Your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 20 results; Setting depth above 20 may result in additional charges if the search engine returns more than 20 results; If the specified depth is higher than the number of questions in the response, the difference will be refunded automatically to your account balance; The cost can be calculated on the Pricing page.

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 with their language_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/languages example: en

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 with language_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/languages example: English

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 with location_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/locations example: 2840

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” format the 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

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 with location_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/locations example: London,England,United Kingdom

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 learn more on our Help Center

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 urlencoded; i.a., the # character will be encoded into %23learn more on our Help Center

task priority optional field can take the following values: 1 – normal execution priority (set by default) 2 – high execution priority You will be additionally charged for the tasks with high execution priority. The cost can be calculated on the Pricing page.

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