Google Autocomplete Scraper

Google Autocomplete Scraper collects the suggestions Google shows while people type. By default each keyword is also typed with every letter and digit after it, and optionally with question words or prepositions, and the results are merged into one row per phrase with its best position, Google's relevance score and how often it came up. It works in 50 countries, and YouTube, Google Shopping and Bing can be added as sources. Click Start to try the prefilled running shoes. Suggestions carry no search volume. It costs $0.10 per 1,000 suggestions on the Free plan ($0.05 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 50,000 suggestions.

What data does it return?

Field	Description
keyword	The suggested phrase, e.g. running shoes zero drop.
seed	The keyword from your input that led to the phrase.
source	Where the suggestion came from: google, youtube, googleShopping or bing. Rows from before 11 October 2026 can also have amazon.
query, modifier	What was typed when the phrase first came up (running shoes z) and what was added to the keyword for that query (z). modifier is null for the keyword alone.
position	The phrase's best place in any list it appeared in, 1 being the top. In September 2026 the lists had up to 15 suggestions on Google, YouTube and Google Shopping, and 12 on Bing.
relevance	Google's own score for the suggestion, e.g. 1250, on Google, YouTube and Google Shopping; null on Bing.
type	QUERY for ordinary suggestions and NAVIGATION for a web address such as http://kopfhoerer.de on the Google sources, null on Bing.
timesSuggested	How many of the typed queries returned the phrase.
wordCount, containsSeed	Number of words, and whether every word of the keyword is in the phrase.
isQuestion	true when the phrase starts with a question word or ends with a question mark.
country, language, checkedAt	Country and language code used, and when the phrase was collected.

How to get Google Autocomplete suggestions

1. Enter Keywords, one per line: a product, a topic or a brand name. Each keyword is expanded and counted on its own.
2. Pick the Sources. Google Search is selected by default.
3. Choose the Country and, if needed, a Language such as de or pt-BR; left empty, the country's main language is used. The country also picks the Bing market.
4. Choose the expansions in Expand keywords with. Letters and digits, the default, type the keyword followed by a to z and 0 to 9. Questions put words such as how, what and why in front of it. Prepositions add words such as for, with and vs after it. With all three, an English keyword becomes 65 queries per source.
5. Raise Maximum rows from the prefilled 100, click Start and export the rows from the Output tab. In September 2026, a run of 840 queries took under 30 seconds and returned 5,464 suggestions.

An API input for two keywords in the UK:

{
  "keywords": ["running shoes", "trail running"],
  "sources": ["google", "youtube", "bing"],
  "country": "GB",
  "expansions": ["alphabet", "questions"],
  "maxSuggestionsPerKeyword": 500
}

Example output

One suggestion from a run on 29 September 2026 for running shoes on Google in the US, expanded with letters and digits. running shoes zero drop first came up when running shoes z was typed, and 2 of the 37 queries returned it.

{
  "keyword": "running shoes zero drop",
  "seed": "running shoes",
  "source": "google",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "query": "running shoes z",
  "modifier": "z",
  "position": 1,
  "relevance": 1250,
  "type": "QUERY",
  "timesSuggested": 2,
  "wordCount": 4,
  "containsSeed": true,
  "isQuestion": false,
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-29T18:48:07.944Z"
}

How much does it cost to get Google Autocomplete suggestions?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 suggestions	$0.10	$0.08	$0.065	$0.05

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

Collecting 20,000 suggestions costs $2.00 on the Free plan and $1.00 on Business. A phrase is charged once per keyword and source, however many queries return it.

Limits

• Google adds local suggestions for the place a request comes from. US runs in September 2026 returned running shoes alexandria va and running shoes frederick md.
• The actor asks without cookies or a signed-in account, so results carry no personal search history.
• The number of suggestions varies a lot by source and keyword. In a September 2026 run in Germany with all expansions, Google gave between 444 and 768 suggestions per keyword.
• Amazon is no longer a source. The robots.txt of Amazon's suggestion service disallows automated access, so since 11 October 2026 an input that still asks for amazon gets a warning in the log and no rows from it, and nothing is charged for it. Saved tasks with amazon keep running with their other sources.
• Question and preposition words exist for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Czech. Other languages get the English words.
• Bing uses the country's market and ignores Language.
• A keyword stops expanding once Maximum suggestions per keyword and source is reached, 1,000 by default.
• When a search engine limits the requests, the actor waits and slows down. After 3 limits in a row, or a captcha page, it stops asking that search engine for the rest of the run, keeps the suggestions it has and names the search engine in the log and the status message. A query that fails 5 times is skipped, and the run is marked as failed if fewer than half of its queries succeed.

Watching a brand or topic

Save the input as a task or give it a Watch name such as brand-monitor, and schedule it weekly. Every run then writes a CHANGES record to its key-value store: for each keyword and source whose top 10 changed, the top 10 suggestions for the keyword alone now and in the previous run, and the phrases that entered or left. With Return only suggestions new since the last run on, the dataset holds only phrases not yet returned for that keyword and source, and you pay only for those. Phrases that did not fit under Maximum rows or the spending limit are returned by the next run. A phrase not seen for 90 days is forgotten and counts as new again.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google Autocomplete?

The actor reads the suggestions that Google, YouTube and Bing show to anyone typing in their search boxes, and it starts at most one query every 120 milliseconds per source. Suggestions are search phrases and do not identify the people who typed them, although a phrase can contain the name of a public person or a company. Check each service's terms before republishing the lists; you are responsible for how you use them.

How do I find the strongest keywords?

Rows come sorted within each keyword and source: the most often suggested first, then by best position. A phrase that comes up under many letters is closely tied to the keyword; a phrase seen once is a narrower, long-tail idea. containsSeed and wordCount separate close variants from loosely related phrases.

What happened to the Amazon source?

It was removed on 11 October 2026. Amazon's suggestion service disallows automated access in its robots.txt, and the actor follows robots.txt. A task that still lists amazon runs with its other sources and logs a warning; when amazon is its only source, the run ends with no rows and no charge.

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Support

This actor is built and maintained by deriverge s.r.o., a software company based in the Czech Republic. If a run fails or a field you need is missing, please open an issue in the Issues tab or write to us at info@deriverge.com. We respond in English and Czech. Runs can be scheduled in Apify Console or started from the API tab, which has examples for Python, JavaScript and cURL and works with Make, Zapier, n8n and the Apify MCP server. If the actor saves you time, a short review helps other people find it.