The fastest keyword rank tracking API for Google

Track positions daily across every keyword you care about, to depth 100 rather than the first page, with responses in under one second and pricing from $1 per 1,000 requests that drops under $0.50 at volume.

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Page past the first ten results with start and num
Same keyword, different city, on the same endpoint and price
Blocked attempts are retried at our cost and never billed

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Typical response time

$1/1K

List price, under $0.50 at volume

Charge for failed requests

Top 100

Tracking depth via pagination

Who runs keyword rank tracking through an API

Position data is cheap to collect badly and expensive to collect well. These teams need it collected well, every day, without owning the plumbing.

Rank tracker platforms

Run a commercial product on an API priced per successful request, with margin left over to resell.

SEO agencies

Refresh client dashboards nightly across every market on the retainer, without a proxy pool to babysit.

In-house SEO teams

Track a large keyword set at full depth rather than sampling the head terms and hoping.

Affiliate and content operators

Watch thousands of pages and catch a position drop before the revenue chart shows it.

Ecommerce category teams

Monitor product and category terms alongside the competitors moving against them.

Why daily rank tracking gets expensive

Three costs compound quietly, and each one pushes teams toward tracking less than they meant to.

Failure 01

The first page is not the whole story

Terms you are trying to break into sit at 30 or 60 today. Tracking only the top ten means the work that moves a keyword from 47 to 19 shows up as no change at all.

Progress looks like a flat line

Failure 02

Paying for blocked attempts

When retries are billed, the invoice grows fastest on exactly the queries that failed. Cost per attempt and cost per usable data point drift apart until the budget stops meaning anything.

Budget spent on nothing

Failure 03

Slow collection forces sampling

If a full refresh takes longer than the night, teams quietly move to weekly, or to a subset. The dataset gets thinner in the exact places where the competition is moving.

Blind spots where it matters

The data a rank tracking request returns

One call to the scraper.google.search actor returns the page as structured JSON, with pagination links so a tracking job can walk to depth 100 on the same schema.

organic_results[]

array

Ranked results for the query at the requested offset.

position

integer

Organic rank on the page, excluding ads and feature blocks.

title

string

Result headline as rendered by Google.

link

string

Destination URL, matched against your tracked domains.

redirect_link

string

Google's tracked redirect URL.

snippet

string

Description text, worth diffing to catch title and meta rewrites.

snippet_highlighted_words

array

Terms Google bolded in the snippet.

source

string

Publisher name, convenient for competitor grouping.

pagination

object

current, next, and other_pages — how a job walks past page one.

search_information

object

Query displayed, total results, and whether Google corrected the spelling.

knowledge_graph

object

Knowledge panel, when the query triggers one.

metadata

object

Engine and stored raw HTML URL, useful when a client disputes a reading.

POST /api/v1/scraper/request

200 ok

# request
curl --location 'https://api.scrapeless.com/api/v1/scraper/request' \
--header 'x-api-token: <api-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "actor": "scraper.google.search",
    "input": {
        "q": "project management software",
        "gl": "us",
        "hl": "en",
        "start": 20,
        "num": 10
    }
}'

# response (trimmed)
{ "organic_results": [
    { "position": 23,
      "title":   "Resource scheduling, compared",
      "link":    "https://example.com/scheduling",
      "snippet": "A breakdown of how teams…",
      "source":  "Example" } ],
  "pagination": {
    "current": 3,
    "next":    "…&start=30" },
  "search_information": {
    "total_results": 48200000 } }

Full parameter and field reference

Tracking the map pack too? Local positions come from a different block — see Local SEO & map rankings.

How a daily tracking job works

Queue your keyword set

One request per keyword per market. Set start to page deeper when a term sits outside the first ten.

We absorb the failures

IP sourcing, fingerprint rotation, and CAPTCHA handling run behind the endpoint. Retries happen on our side and never appear on your invoice.

Write positions and diff

Store position, link, and snippet per run. Snippet changes often explain a movement that position alone leaves unexplained.

Built for rank tracker platforms, agencies, and in-house SEO teams

The fastest response in the category

A full refresh has to fit between the last visitor tonight and the first report tomorrow. Sub-second responses are what keep a large keyword set on a daily cadence instead of a weekly one.

under 1s

typical vendor window

request

unblock

parse

Depth past the first page

Page through results with start and control how many come back with num, so keywords ranking at 40 or 80 are measurable rather than reported as absent.

Pagination

"start": 0 | 10 | 20 …

"num": results per page

pagination.next

Same keyword, different market

Country, language, and city are request parameters, not separate products. One integration covers every market a client operates in, at the same per-request price.

Market Parameters

"gl": "us" "hl": "en"

"location": city level

"google_domain": per market

You pay for readings, not attempts

Every blocked request retried at our cost is a line item that never reaches your invoice. On a daily job across tens of thousands of keywords, that gap is the whole margin.

Pricing

$1.00 / 1K requests

under $0.50 at volume

failed requests not billed

Plans built for daily tracking jobs

Tracking cost is keywords multiplied by markets multiplied by frequency, so effective cost per successful reading is the number that matters. Start at $1 per 1,000 and move down the curve as the set grows.

Basic

$0.00/1K

Pay as you go

No commitment. Consumption-based pricing at list rates.

Comparing keyword rank tracking APIs

Teams running position data at scale are usually deciding whether to keep maintaining collection or to buy the readings.

Scrapeless Google Search API

Build it in-house

Typical SERP API vendor

Typical response time

Under one second

Degrades under load

Multiple seconds

Tracking depth

Top 100 via pagination

Build pagination yourself

Often first page only

Entry price per 1K

$1.00, under $0.50 at volume

Proxy and engineering cost

$1.00 and up

Cost of a blocked request

Never billed

Paid in bandwidth either way

Usually billed

Market coverage

City-level, 195 countries

Residential IPs per market

Country-level on most plans

Time to first clean dataset

Under an hour

4–8 weeks

Days

Start using the fastest, lowest-cost keyword rank tracking API

Sub-second positions to depth 100 from $1 per 1,000 requests, dropping under $0.50 at volume, with failed requests never billed. See the full endpoint reference, parameter list, and pricing.

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Drops into the stack you already run

Official SDKs and verified nodes, so a scheduled rank pull is a configuration task rather than a build.

Python SDK

Node.js SDK

Go SDK

n8n verified node

Make

Pipedream

Activepieces

Dify

MCP server

Webhooks

Need implementation details? View product details or open the Google Search API docs for the full parameter list, response schema, and SDK examples.

Choose the search workflow your team needs

Explore focused solutions for search visibility, AI retrieval, commerce intelligence, research and monitoring. Each use case connects Google Search API results to a clear business outcome.

SEO Rank Monitoring

Measure domain visibility, ranking pages and SERP feature presence across keyword groups, markets and devices.

Explore SEO monitoring

Local SEO & Rankings

Compare local rankings, business listings, Maps visibility and review signals across cities, regions and service areas.

Explore local SEO

AI SEO & GEO Visibility

Monitor brand mentions, citations and source visibility across AI-generated search experiences and target topics.

Explore AI SEO and GEO

Product & Market Research

Study demand signals, alternatives, category presence and competing offers through structured search results.

Explore product research

AI Models & RAG

Give LLMs, agents and RAG pipelines current, attributable search context for grounding and retrieval workflows.

Explore AI model workflows You are here

Keyword Rank Tracking

Track exact keyword positions and movement over time by location, language, device and result type.

Explore rank tracking

Shopping Price Monitoring

Compare public Google Shopping prices, merchants, ratings and product visibility for selected categories.

Explore price monitoring

News & Media Monitoring

Follow headlines, publishers, emerging stories and shifts in public narratives across relevant queries.

Explore news monitoring

Travel Data

Structure Google Flights and Hotels results for route, stay, destination and travel-market research.

Explore travel data

Recruitment Data

Collect Google Jobs results to monitor roles, employers, locations and labor-market demand.

Explore recruitment data

Ad Verification

Verify PPC and Ads visibility, placement and competitive messaging across target queries and markets.

Explore ad verification

Academic Research

Organize Google Scholar results, authors and cited sources for academic and evidence-based research.

Explore academic research

Trend Analysis

Use Google Trends signals to compare changing interest across topics, time periods and markets.

Explore trend analysis

Image Search

Use Google Lens and Images results to discover visual matches, sources and related content.

Explore image search

Brand Monitoring

Track where a brand appears across organic results, news, shopping and other SERP surfaces.

Explore brand monitoring

Need Google Search API specifications and pricing?

Review supported Google API categories, structured response examples, integration steps and pricing on the Product page.

Questions teams ask before they buy

Which is the cheapest keyword rank tracking API?

Compare effective cost per successful reading rather than list price. Scrapeless lists at $1 per 1,000 and drops under $0.50 at volume, and blocked attempts are never billed — on a daily job across a large keyword set, retries are usually where the cost difference lives.

Which rank tracking API is fastest?

Scrapeless returns most requests in under one second. That is what decides whether a full refresh fits in a nightly window or forces a team to sample.

Can I track positions beyond the first page?

Yes. Use start to page through results in offsets of ten and num to set how many come back per request. The pagination object returns the next offset so a job can walk to depth 100.

Can I track the same keyword in several countries?

Yes. Set gl, hl, and optionally google_domain per request, and pass a city in location when the market is local. Coverage spans 195 countries and regions.

What happens if Google changes the results layout?

Parsing is maintained on our side and the response schema stays stable. New blocks are added as new fields rather than by renaming existing ones, so a running job doesn't break.

Can I audit a disputed position?

Yes. The metadata object returns the stored raw page URL for the request, which is usually the quickest way to settle a disagreement about a reading.

Do I still need my own proxies?

No. IP sourcing, rotation, fingerprinting, and CAPTCHA handling sit behind the endpoint. Teams migrating from a self-managed pool typically retire it entirely.

Tracking tens of thousands of keywords? Get a custom rate.

A solutions engineer will scope your keyword set, markets, depth, and refresh frequency, then send back custom pricing — usually within one business day. Smaller sets can start free today.

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