POST /v3/serp/google/maps/task_post – DataForSEO API documentation

Serp

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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/maps/task_post

Request

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

Request body

keywordstring

keywordrequired fieldyou can specify up to 700 characters in the <code>keyword</code> fieldall %## will be decoded (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)if you need to use the “%” character for your <code>keyword</code>, please specify it as “%25”;if you need to use the “+” character for your <code>keyword</code>, please specify it as “%2B”;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>

location_codeinteger

search engine location coderequired field if you don't specify <code>location_name</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>location_name</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code>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>example:<code class="long-string">2840</code>

language_codestring

search engine language coderequired field if you don't specify <code>language_name</code>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>language_name</code>you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their <code>language_code</code> by making a separate request to the <code>https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/{{low_se_name}}/languages</code>example:<code class="long-string">en</code>

depthinteger nullable

parsing depthoptional fieldnumber of results in SERPdefault value: <code>100</code>max value: <code>700</code> Your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 100 results;Setting depth above 100 may result in additional charges <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/how-many-results-scraped" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">if the search engine returns more than 100 results</a>;The cost can be calculated on the <a title="Pricing" href="https://dataforseo.com/pricing/serp/google-maps-serp-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pricing</a> page.

priorityinteger nullable

task priorityoptional fieldcan 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 <a title="Pricing" href="https://dataforseo.com/pricing/serp/google-maps-serp-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pricing</a> page.

devicestring nullable

device typeoptional fieldreturn results for a specific device typecan take the values:<code>desktop</code>, <code>mobile</code>default value: <code>desktop</code>note: for <code>mobile</code> device, only 20 results are returned for every SERP

pingback_urlstring nullable

notification URL of a completed taskoptional fieldwhen a task is completed we will notify you by GET request sent to the URL you have specifiedyou 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.example:<code>http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id</code><code>http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag</code>Note: special characters in <code>pingback_url</code> will be urlencoded;i.a., the <code>#</code> character will be encoded into <code>%23</code> learn more on our <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/pingbacks-postbacks-with-dataforseo-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Center</a>

postback_urlstring nullable

URL for sending task resultsoptional fieldonce 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 specifiedyou 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.example:<code>http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id</code><code>http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id&tag=$tag</code>Note: special characters in <code>postback_url</code> will be urlencoded;i.a., the <code>#</code> character will be encoded into <code>%23</code> learn more on our <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/pingbacks-postbacks-with-dataforseo-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Center</a>

postback_datastring

postback_url datatyperequired field if you specify <code>postback_url</code>corresponds to the function you used for setting a taskpossible values:<code>advanced</code>

location_namestring

full name of search engine locationrequired field if you don't specify <code>location_code</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>location_code</code> or <code>location_coordinate</code>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>example:<code class="long-string">London,England,United Kingdom</code>

language_namestring

full name of search engine languagerequired field if you don't specify <code>language_code</code>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>language_code</code>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>example:<code class="long-string">English</code>

osstring nullable

device operating systemoptional fieldif you specify <code>desktop</code> in the <code>device</code> field, choose from the following values: <code>windows</code>, <code>macos</code>default value: <code>windows</code>if you specify <code>mobile</code> in the <code>device</code> field, choose from the following values: <code>android</code>, <code>ios</code>default value: <code>android</code>

max_crawl_pagesinteger nullable

page crawl limitoptional fieldnumber of search results pages to crawlmax value: <code>100</code>Note: the <code>max_crawl_pages</code> and <code>depth</code> parameters complement each other;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>

urlstring nullable

direct URL of the search queryoptional fieldyou 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.example:<code class="long-string">https://google.com/maps/search/pizza/@37.09024,-95.712891,4z</code> Note: the following search engine parameters are not supported and will be automatically unset if specified in the URL: <code>allinanchor:</code>, <code>allintext:</code>, <code>allintitle:</code>, <code>allinurl:</code>, <code>cache:</code>, <code>define:</code>, <code>definition:</code>, <code>filetype:</code>, <code>id:</code>, <code>inanchor:</code>, <code>info:</code>, <code>intext:</code>, <code>intitle:</code>, <code>inurl:</code>, <code>link:</code>, <code>site:</code>.

location_coordinatestring

GPS coordinates of a locationrequired field if you don't specify <code>location_name</code> or <code>location_code</code>if you use this field, you don't need to specify <code>location_name</code> or <code>location_code</code><code>location_coordinate</code> parameter should be specified in the "latitude,longitude,zoom" formatif "zoom" is not specified, 17z will be applied as a default valuethe maximum number of decimal digits for "latitude" and "longitude": 7the minimum value for "zoom": 3zthe maximum value for "zoom": 21zexample:<code class="long-string">52.6178549,-155.352142,20z</code>

se_domainstring nullable

search engine domainoptional fieldwe choose the relevant search engine domain automatically according to the location and language you specifyhowever, you can set a custom search engine domain in this fieldexample:<code>google.co.uk</code>

search_this_areaboolean nullable

show results from the displayed areaoptional fieldcan take the values:<code>true</code>, <code>false</code>default value: <code>true</code>if set to <code>false</code>, the <code>search_this_area</code> mode will be turned offNote: if the <code>search_this_area</code> mode is turned off, Google Maps listings might contain results beyond the displayed area

search_placesboolean nullable

search places modeoptional fieldthe search places mode allows to obtain Google Maps results on a certain place (e.g., Apple Store in New York)however, due to the pecularities of our data mining algorithm, this mode might interfere with some local-intent queries - and display results for a location that is different from that specified in the request;to prevent this interference and obtain correct results for keywords with local intent you may set this parameter to <code>false</code>;default value: <code>true</code>Note: if the <code>search_places</code> mode is turned off and no results were found in the search area, the <code>results</code> array will be empty

tagstring nullable

user-defined task identifieroptional fieldthe character limit is 255you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the resultyou will find the specified <code>tag</code> value in the <code>data</code> object of the response

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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