Keyword Suggestions — Google, YouTube, Bing Autocomplete

Bulk keyword suggestions from Google, YouTube, Bing and Baidu autocomplete. Expand each seed with a-z, question words or prepositions for long-tail keyword research. One row per seed and engine, any country and language. $0.30 per 1,000 seeds, $1 per 1,000 with a-z.

Bulk keyword suggestions from Google, YouTube, Bing and Baidu autocomplete, in one run. Give it a list of seed keywords and it collects what each search box suggests as people type: the long-tail queries real users search for. Turn on a-z expansion and every seed is also sent as "seed a" … "seed z" (27 requests), which usually returns 250-450 unique long-tail keywords per seed and engine. Questions expansion (how / what / why / can / is … + seed) finds the questions people ask, ideal for blog topics, FAQs and "people also search" style ideas. Prepositions expansion (seed for / with / vs / near …) finds comparisons and buying intent. It works as a Google autocomplete scraper, a YouTube keyword tool for video titles and tags, and a Bing and Baidu suggest scraper for keyword research in any market: set the country and language (gl/hl for Google and YouTube, the market for Bing). You get one row per seed and engine, with every suggestion's text, its position and the exact query that produced it, deduped across the expansion. Switch to flat mode for one row per keyword, ready for a spreadsheet. $0.30 per 1,000 seeds per engine, $1 per 1,000 with a-z, questions or prepositions. No $0.005 start fee: the only per-run charge is the platform start event, about $0.000006 at 128 MB. Empty and rate-limited results are free.

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What data does it return?

Every run outputs clean, schema-validated rows like these:

seed	engine	country	expansion	count	keywords
coffee maker	google	us	a-z	263	coffee maker, coffee maker with grinder, coffee maker walmart, … coffee maker zojirushi review
coffee maker	youtube	us	a-z	254	coffee maker, coffee maker machine, coffee maker review, … zojirushi coffee maker cleaning
coffee maker	bing	us	a-z	349	coffee maker, coffee makers on sale, coffee maker with grinder, … coffee maker zojirushi
running shoes	google	us	a-z	250	running shoes, running shoes for women, running shoes for men, … running shoes zurich

How much does it cost?

Transparent pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you get, and the actor always respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and it stops cleanly at the cap instead of overrunning.

Event	Price	Charged	Worked example
seed-expanded	$0.0003	per seed x engine row with suggestions, expansion none (1 request)	1,000 seeds on Google = $0.30; on Google + YouTube + Bing = $0.90
seed-expanded-full	$0.001	per seed x engine row with suggestions, expansion a-z (27 requests), questions (14) or prepositions (13)	100 seeds with a-z on Google + YouTube + Bing = $0.30 for ~75,000 keywords
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	per run per GB of memory (platform start fee)	One run at 128 MB = $0.00000625

Input options

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
seeds	array	yes	—	Keywords to get suggestions for, e.g. coffee maker. Each seed is sent to every selected engine. Duplicates (case-insensitive) are removed.
engines	array	no	["google","youtube","bing"]	Autocomplete sources. google and youtube use Google's public suggest endpoint (suggestqueries.google.com; youtube = YouTube search suggestions). bing uses Bing's OpenSearch suggestion feed. baidu uses Baidu's suggest endpoint (Chinese; ignores country/language). Each seed x engine is one charged row.
expansion	string	no	"a-z"	How each seed is expanded. none: the seed only (1 request, about 10 suggestions; $0.0003 per seed x engine). a-z: the seed plus 'seed a' … 'seed z' (27 requests, up to ~270 long-tail suggestions). questions: who/what/where/when/why/how/which/can/is/are/does/will/should + seed (14 requests). prepositions: seed + for/with/without/vs/near/to/like/and/or/versus/is/can (13 requests). a-z, questions and prepositions cost $0.001 per seed x engine.
country	string	no	"us"	Two-letter country code (us, gb, de, fr, in …). Sent to Google/YouTube as gl and to Bing as the market (language-COUNTRY, e.g. en-US).
language	string	no	"en"	Two-letter language code (en, de, fr, es …). Sent to Google/YouTube as hl and to Bing as part of the market.
maxSuggestionsPerSeed	integer	no	500	Cap on the suggestions kept in one seed x engine row (after dedupe). Same price whatever the cap.
dedupe	boolean	no	true	Drop a suggestion already returned by an earlier expansion query for the same seed and engine (case- and whitespace-insensitive; first occurrence wins).
outputMode	string	no	"grouped"	grouped: one row per seed x engine with suggestions[] (text, position, query, modifier) and count. flat: one row per suggestion, ready for a spreadsheet. Billing is the same in both modes: per seed x engine, never per suggestion.

Limits & honest notes

• Sources: Google and YouTube suggestions come from Google's public suggest endpoint (suggestqueries.google.com, which has no robots.txt), Bing from its OpenSearch suggestion feed (api.bing.com/osjson.aspx, not disallowed by robots), Baidu from suggestion.baidu.com. Re-checked 2026-10-20.
• Not included, on purpose: Amazon, DuckDuckGo and Naver (their robots.txt disallows it), eBay (robots plus an explicit ban on automated access), Yahoo (its terms ban automated access without permission) and Yandex (its search terms ban automated requests outside its paid API).
• Polite by design: an honest user agent (ActorForge-KeywordSuggestions/1.0), at most 2 requests in flight and at least 350 ms between requests per host, no proxies and no proxy rotation. So an a-z seed takes about 10 seconds per engine; Google and YouTube share one host, Bing and Baidu run in parallel with it.
• Rate limits: on HTTP 429 (or Google's "sorry" page) the actor waits 5 s, then 20 s. If the host keeps answering 429, or answers 401/403 even once, that engine is stopped for the rest of the run and its remaining rows come back as status rate-limited, free. Google can rate-limit shared cloud IPs; just re-run later.
• Billing is per seed x engine, never per keyword: flat mode (one row per suggestion) costs exactly the same as grouped mode. Only complete rows with at least one suggestion (status ok) are charged; no-suggestions, partial (some queries failed), rate-limited and error rows are free.
• Suggestions are what each engine shows for that query, country and language at run time. They are not search volumes. Google partly localises by the requester's IP as well as gl, so a few results can reflect the data-centre location.
• Each response has up to about 10 suggestions (Bing up to ~20, Baidu ~10, often fewer for long-tail or non-Chinese seeds). Dedupe (on by default) keeps the first occurrence across the expansion; maxSuggestionsPerSeed caps a row.
• The run's spend limit is respected: each seed x engine is reserved before its requests start and charged before its row is saved, and the run stops cleanly at the cap.

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• Learn more: Keyword Suggestions — Google, YouTube, Bing Autocomplete on the ActorForge site

Changelog

• 2026-10-20 — Initial release: Google, YouTube, Bing and Baidu autocomplete; a-z, questions and prepositions expansion; country/language; dedupe; grouped and flat output; per-host pacing with 429 back-off and stop.

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