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‌‌ SERP API provides top 100 search engine results. These results are specific to the selected location (see the List of Locations) and language (see the List of Languages) settings.

post/v3/serp/google/images/task_post

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.dataforseo.com
  • URL: https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/images/task_post
  • Auth: HTTP basic

Request body

keywordstring
<p><em>keyword</em><p><strong>required field</strong><p>you can specify <strong>up to 700 characters</strong> in the <code>keyword</code> field<p>all %## will be decoded (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)<p>if you need to use the “%” character for your <code>keyword</code>, please specify it as “%25”;<p>if you need to use the “+” character for your <code>keyword</code>, please specify it as “%2B”;<p>if this field contains such parameters as <em>‘allinanchor:’, ‘allintext:’, ‘allintitle:’, ‘allinurl:’, ‘define:’, ‘filetype:’, ‘id:’, ‘inanchor:’, ‘info:’, ‘intext:’, ‘intitle:’, ‘inurl:’, ‘link:’, ‘related:’, ‘site:’</em>, <strong>the charge per task will be multiplied by 5</strong><p><strong>Note:</strong> queries containing the ‘cache:’ parameter are not supported and will return a validation error</p><br><p>learn more about rules and limitations of <code>keyword</code> and <code>keywords</code> fields in DataForSEO APIs in this <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/rules-and-limitations-of-keyword-and-keywords-fields-in-dataforseo-apis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Help Center article</a></p>
location_codeinteger
<p><em>search engine location code</em><p><strong>required field if you don't specify</strong> <code>location_name</code>&nbsp;or <code>location_coordinate</code><p><strong>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>location_name</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code></strong><p>you can receive the list of available locations of the search engines with their <code>location_code</code> by making a separate request to the <code>https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/locations</code><p>example:<p><code class="long-string">2840</code></p>
language_codestring
<p><em>search engine language code</em><p><strong>required field if you don't specify</strong> <code>language_name</code><p><strong>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>language_name</code></strong><p>you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their <code>language_code</code>&nbsp;by making a separate request to the <code>https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/languages</code><em><p></em>example:<em><p></em><code class="long-string">en</code></p>
depthinteger nullable
<p><em>parsing depth</em><p>optional field<p>number of results in SERP<p>default value: <code>100</code><p>max value: <code>700</code></p><br><strong>Your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 100 results;</strong><p>Setting depth above 100 may result in additional charges if the search engine returns more than 100 results;<p>If the specified depth is higher than the number of results in the response, the difference will be refunded to your account balance automatically;<p>The cost can be calculated on the <a title="Pricing" href="https://dataforseo.com/pricing/serp/google-images-serp-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pricing</a> page.
priorityinteger nullable
<p><em>task priority</em><p>optional field<p>can take the following values:<p>1 – normal execution priority (set by default)<p>2 – high execution priority</p><br>You will be additionally charged for the tasks with high execution priority.<p>The cost can be calculated on the <a title="Pricing" href="https://dataforseo.com/pricing/serp/google-images-serp-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pricing</a> page.
pingback_urlstring nullable
<p><em>notification URL of a completed task</em><p>optional field<p>when a task is completed we will notify you by GET request sent to the URL you have specified<p>you can use the ‘$id’ string as a <code>$id</code> variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded <code>$tag</code> variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.<p>example:<p><code>http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id</code><p><code>http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&amp;tag=$tag</code><p><strong>Note:</strong> special characters in <code>pingback_url</code> will be urlencoded;<p>i.a., the <code>#</code> character will be encoded into <code>%23</code></p><br><p>learn more on our <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/pingbacks-postbacks-with-dataforseo-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Center</a></p>
postback_urlstring nullable
<p><em>URL for sending task results</em><p>optional field<p>once the task is completed, we will send a POST request with its results compressed in the <code>gzip</code> format to the <code>postback_url</code> you specified<p>you can use the ‘$id’ string as a <code>$id</code> variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded <code>$tag</code> variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.<p>example:<p><code>http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id</code><p><code>http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id&amp;tag=$tag</code><p><strong>Note:</strong> special characters in <code>postback_url</code> will be urlencoded;<p>i.a., the <code>#</code> character will be encoded into <code>%23</code></p><br><p>learn more on our <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/pingbacks-postbacks-with-dataforseo-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Center</a></p>
postback_datastring
<p><em>postback_url datatype</em><p><strong>required field if you specify <code>postback_url</code></strong><p>corresponds to the datatype that will be sent to your server<p>possible values:<p><code>advanced</code>, <code>html</code></p>
location_namestring
<p><em>full name of search engine location</em><p><strong>required field if you don't specify</strong> <code>location_code</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code><p><strong>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>location_code</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code></strong><p>you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their <code>location_name</code> by making a separate request to the <code>https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/locations</code><p>example:<p><code class="long-string">London,England,United Kingdom</code></p>
language_namestring
<p><em>full name of search engine language</em><p><strong>required field if you don't specify</strong> <code>language_code</code><p><strong>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>language_code</code></strong><p>you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their <code>language_name</code> by making a separate request to the <code>https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/languages</code><p>example:<p><code class="long-string">English</code></p>
osstring nullable
<p><em>device operating system</em><p>optional field<p><strong>note that this API provides results for desktop only</strong><p>choose from the following values: <code>windows</code>, <code>macos</code><p>default value: <code>windows</code></p>
tagstring nullable
<p><em>user-defined task identifier</em><p>optional field<p><em>the character limit is 255</em><p>you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result<p>you will find the specified <code>tag</code> value in the <code>data</code> object of the response</p>
max_crawl_pagesinteger nullable
<p><em>page crawl limit</em><p>optional field<p>number of search results pages to crawl<p>max value: <code>100</code><p><strong>Note:</strong> the <code>max_crawl_pages</code> and <code>depth</code> parameters complement each other;<p>learn more at <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/what-is-max-crawl-pages-and-how-does-it-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">our help center</a></p>
search_paramstring nullable
<p><em>additional parameters of the search query</em><p>optional field<p><a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/google-search-engine-parameters-and-how-to-use-them">get the list of available parameters and additional details here</a></p>
urlstring nullable
<p><em>direct URL of the search query</em><p>optional field<p>you can specify a direct URL and we will sort it out to the necessary fields. Note that this method is the most difficult for our API to process and also requires you to specify the exact language and location in the URL. In most cases, we wouldn’t recommend using this method.<p>example:<p><code class="long-string">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%20rank%20tracker%20api&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=GB&amp;uule=w+CAIQIFISCXXeIa8LoNhHEZkq1d1aOpZS</code></p>
location_coordinatestring
<p><em>GPS coordinates of a location</em><p><strong>required field if you don't specify</strong> <code>location_name</code>&nbsp;or <code>location_code</code><p><strong>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>location_name</code> or <code>location_code</code></strong><p><code>location_coordinate</code> parameter should be specified in the <em>"latitude,longitude,radius"</em> format<p>the maximum number of decimal digits for <em>"latitude"</em> and <em>"longitude"</em>: 7<p>the minimum value for <em>"radius"</em>: 199.9 (mm)<p>the maximum value for <em>"radius"</em>: 199999 (mm)<p>example:<p><code class="long-string">53.476225,-2.243572,200</code></p>
se_domainstring nullable
<p><em>search engine domain</em><p>optional field<p>we choose the relevant search engine domain automatically according to the location and language you specify<p>however, you can set a custom search engine domain in this field<p>example:<p><code><code></code></code><em>google.co.uk</em>, <code><code></code></code><em>google.com.au</em>, <code><code></code></code><em>google.de</em>, etc.</p>

Example request

[
  {
    "language_code": "en",
    "location_code": 2840,
    "keyword": "albert einstein"
  }
]

Response

Successful operation

versionstring nullable

the current version of the API

status_codeinteger nullable

general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here

status_messagestring nullable

general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here

timestring nullable

total execution time, seconds

costnumber double nullable

total tasks cost, USD

tasks_countinteger nullable

the number of tasks in the tasks array

tasks_errorinteger nullable

the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error

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