Google Autocomplete Scraper (Apify Actor)

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Uncover what people really type into Google—instantly.

Google Autocomplete Scraper transforms every keystroke into ready-to-analyze JSON or CSV, letting you mine thousands of long-tail keywords, content ideas, and search intents in seconds. No browser automation, no rate-limit headaches—just clean data from Google’s “Suggest” API via Apify’s serverless platform.

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Table of Contents

1. Key Benefits
2. Popular Use Cases
3. Features
4. Input Parameters
5. Example Input
6. Output
7. Tips & Best Practices
8. Support

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Key Benefits

• True User Intent – Harvest up-to-date autocomplete phrases direct from Google, not scraped SERPs.
• Global Coverage – 250 ⁺ country codes + 100 ⁺ interface languages for hyper-localized suggestions.
• Proxy‑Free – Works out of the box; no proxies, captchas, or residential IPs required.
• Cursor Tricks – Optional “cursor before query” mode surfaces even more hidden keywords.
• Blazing Fast – Lightweight HTTP calls (no headless Chrome) deliver thousands of suggestions per minute.
• Plug-and-Play – One-click run in Apify UI or call via REST/SDK; export to BigQuery, S3, Airtable, Looker Studio.

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Popular Use Cases

Role / Goal	How the scraper helps
SEO & Content	Build massive keyword lists, uncover question keywords (“how, why, when”), validate topical clusters.
PPC & ASO	Discover long-tail phrases with lower CPC, craft exact-match ad groups, optimize app titles.
Product Ideation	See what features customers expect (“laptop with ”), gauge demand before launching.
Market Research	Compare autocomplete differences by country/language to spot regional trends.
Chatbot Training	Feed intents & entities straight into NLP pipelines for smarter auto-responses.

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Features

• 🔍 Direct API Calls – Pull suggestions from Google’s /complete/search endpoint—no HTML parsing.
• 🌍 Country & Language Selectors – Fine-tune results with country (gl param) and language (hl param).
• ↩️ Cursor-Before-Query Mode – Prepend a space ( ” query” ) to reveal hidden suggestions.
• ⚡ Bulk Friendly – Chain hundreds of queries via Apify task scheduler; pay only for successful requests.
• 📊 Relevance Scoring – Return index order as a numeric relevance field for easy ranking.
• 🗂 Clean Output – JSON, CSV, or view in-browser table; column names: value, relevance.

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Input Parameters

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes	–	Seed term (e.g. "coffee" or "best laptop for").
country	string	No	us	2-letter country code for geo bias (gb, fr, de, etc.).
language	string	No	en	Interface language for suggestions (es, de, ja, etc.).
cursor_before	boolean	No	false	If true, inserts a leading space to expand results pool.

Tip – Combine multiple seeds with Apify Scheduler or API batching to build huge datasets overnight.

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Example Input

{
  "query": "electric bike",
  "country": "ca",
  "language": "en",
  "cursor_before": true
}

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Output

The actor returns an array of suggestion objects:

[
  { "value": "electric bike for adults", "relevance": 0 },
  { "value": "electric bike canada", "relevance": 1 },
  { "value": "electric bike conversion kit", "relevance": 2 }
]

Lower relevance = higher position in Google’s drop-down.

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Tips & Best Practices

1. Seed modifiers – Use underscore ("coffee _"), wildcard ("* coffee"), or alphabet loops ("coffee a" … "coffee z") to explode keyword coverage.
2. Compare locales – Run the same query across country/language pairs to see regional phrasing differences.
3. Deduplicate smartly – Merge datasets on the value field; keep the lowest relevance to prioritize top suggestions.
4. Blend with SERP data – Pair this actor with our Google Search Scraper or Shopping Scraper for volume, CPC, and product availability.
5. Schedule & Append – Set a weekly run to track how autocomplete trends shift over time for seasonality insights.

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Support

• 💬 Community – Ask questions in the Apify Discord.
• 🛠 Custom Mods – Need n-gram expansions, question-only filtering, or direct Sheets export? Message us via Apify.
• 🖥 Enterprise SLA – Dedicated proxies & guaranteed throughput available on request.

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Why Choose Google Autocomplete Scraper?

Because traditional keyword tools lag behind. Get real-time, source-of-truth user queries in any language, feed them straight into your SEO, PPC, or product research workflow, and outrank the competition—without writing a single line of scraping code.

Start discovering hidden keywords—click “Try for free” and get your first dataset in under 30 seconds.

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Happy scraping!