Setting ‘Search Volume’ Tasks

keywords required field The maximum number of keywords you can specify: 1000 The maximum number of characters for each keyword: 100 the specified keywords will be converted to lowercase, data will be provided in a separate array learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article

starting date of the time range optional field if you don’t specify this field, data will be provided for the last 12 months minimal value: 24 months from today’s date date format: "yyyy-mm-dd" example: "2020-01-01" Note: we do not recommend using a custom time range for the past year’s dates

ending date of the time range optional field if you don’t specify this field, data will be provided for the last 12 months; minimum value: two years back from today’s date; maximum value: one month from today’s date; note: we do not recommend using a custom time range for the past year’s dates; date format: "yyyy-mm-dd" example: "2020-03-15" Note: we do not recommend using a custom time range for the past year’s dates

device type optional field specify this field if you want to get the data for a particular device typepossible values: all, mobile, desktop, tablet default value: all

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 supported languages: en, fr, de

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 supported languages: English, French, German

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 https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/bing/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” format the data will be provided for the country the specified coordinates belong to example: 52.6178549,-155.352142

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 https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/bing/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

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 %23 learn more on our Help Center

Bing search partners type optional field if you specify true, the results will be delivered for owned, operated, and syndicated networks across Bing, Yahoo, AOL and partner sites that host Bing, AOL, and Yahoo search. default value: false – results are returned for Bing, AOL, and Yahoo search networks

results sorting parameters optional field Use these parameters to sort the results by search_volume, cpc, competition or relevance in the descending order default value: relevance

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