# Bing SERP Scraper — Organic Results, Positions & Snippets (`bovi/bing-serp-scraper`) Actor Scrape Bing Search SERP: organic results with position, title, URL, displayed URL, and snippet. Paginate up to maxItems. Structural HTML parse — survives Bing class churn. No external proxy required. - **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/bing-serp-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community) - **Categories:** SEO tools, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $3.78 / 1,000 search results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Bing Search Scraper — SERP Results, Positions, Snippets Scrape Bing Search organic results at scale. Get **position, title, URL, displayed URL, and snippet** for every result — perfect for SEO rank tracking, SERP analysis, keyword research, and competitive intelligence. ### What you get Each result record contains: | Field | Description | |---|---| | `position` | Organic rank (1, 2, 3, … across pages) | | `title` | Result page title | | `url` | Real destination URL (decoded from Bing's tracking redirect) | | `displayed_url` | Breadcrumb URL shown on the SERP (e.g. `https://example.com › path`) | | `snippet` | Description text shown below the title | | `query` | Your search query | | `market` | Bing market code used (e.g. `en-US`, `de-DE`) | | `page` | SERP page number the result came from | | `parse_confidence` | Parse quality score (1.0 = perfect; <0.5 = schema drift detected) | ### Inputs | Input | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `query` | string | **required** | Search term to submit to Bing | | `market` | string | `en-US` | Bing market code: language + region (`en-GB`, `de-DE`, `fr-FR`, …) | | `count` | integer | `10` | Results per request (Bing caps at ~10) | | `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Max organic results to collect (0 = unlimited up to Bing's index depth) | | `proxyConfiguration` | proxy | RESIDENTIAL | Apify Residential proxy recommended for cloud reliability | ### Pricing **Pay-per-result** (PPE): you are charged only for records actually returned — zero results means zero charge. Charged at the `result-item` event rate. ### Why this scraper - **Structural parser** — anchored on `id="b_results"` + `li.b_algo` + `h2 > a`, not rotating CSS class names. Survives Bing redesigns. - **Real URL decoding** — Bing wraps every href in a tracking redirect; we base64-decode it to give you the actual destination. - **Cross-page dedup** — automatically drops duplicate results when Bing recycles its shallow index. - **RESIDENTIAL proxy** — no external proxy account needed; billed to your Apify run. - **parse_confidence** in every record — immediate visibility if Bing's HTML structure changes. ### Usage examples #### SEO rank tracking Query your brand or target keywords daily; use `position` to track rank changes over time. #### Competitor analysis Scrape SERPs for competitive keywords to see which domains consistently rank. #### Keyword research Collect titles and snippets from top results to understand what content ranks for a given keyword. #### Multi-market SERP comparison Run the same query with different `market` values (`en-US`, `en-GB`, `de-DE`) to compare regional SERP differences. # Actor input Schema ## `query` (type: `string`): Search term to submit to Bing (e.g. 'best SEO tools 2024', 'python web scraping'). Required. ## `market` (type: `string`): Bing market code controlling language and regional results. Format: language-COUNTRY (e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE, fr-FR). Default: en-US. ## `count` (type: `integer`): Bing typically returns 10 organic results per page. Setting count to 20 requests more results per request (not always honored). Default: 10. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of organic results to collect across all pages. You are charged per result returned. Default: 50. Set to 0 for unlimited (up to Bing's organic index depth, typically 100–200 per query). ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. Bing is lenient — curl_cffi chrome impersonation without proxy usually works. Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy improves reliability and unlocks geo-targeted results. No external proxy account needed. ## Actor input object example ```json { "query": "web scraping tools", "market": "en-US", "count": 10, "maxItems": 50, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ```` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): Dataset containing Bing Serp Scraper records (position, title, url, displayed\_url, snippet, query, page, result\_type, parse\_confidence, scraped\_at). # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "query": "web scraping tools", "market": "en-US", "maxItems": 50, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("bovi/bing-serp-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "query": "web scraping tools", "market": "en-US", "maxItems": 50, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("bovi/bing-serp-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "query": "web scraping tools", "market": "en-US", "maxItems": 50, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }' | apify call bovi/bing-serp-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/bing-serp-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Bing SERP Scraper — Organic Results, Positions & Snippets", "description": "Scrape Bing Search SERP: organic results with position, title, URL, displayed URL, and snippet. Paginate up to maxItems. Structural HTML parse — survives Bing class churn. No external proxy required.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "akFFWZIDzqcB2Spwu" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/bovi~bing-serp-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-bovi-bing-serp-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/bovi~bing-serp-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-bovi-bing-serp-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/bovi~bing-serp-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-bovi-bing-serp-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "query": { "title": "Search query", "type": "string", "description": "Search term to submit to Bing (e.g. 'best SEO tools 2024', 'python web scraping'). Required." }, "market": { "title": "Market / locale", "type": "string", "description": "Bing market code controlling language and regional results. Format: language-COUNTRY (e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE, fr-FR). Default: en-US.", "default": "en-US" }, "count": { "title": "Results per page", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Bing typically returns 10 organic results per page. Setting count to 20 requests more results per request (not always honored). Default: 10.", "default": 10 }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max results to collect", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of organic results to collect across all pages. You are charged per result returned. Default: 50. Set to 0 for unlimited (up to Bing's organic index depth, typically 100–200 per query).", "default": 50 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings. Bing is lenient — curl_cffi chrome impersonation without proxy usually works. Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy improves reliability and unlocks geo-targeted results. No external proxy account needed.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```