Google AI Overview Tracker: Citations, Rank & Changes
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from $8.00 / 1,000 keyword checkeds
Track if Google's AI Overview cites your domain or your competitors for your keywords, by country and language: the full answer, every source with its full URL, citation rank, and the citations gained or lost since your last run. Batch keywords, no Google account.
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keyword-checked events were charged; the 0.1.5 fix left no extra charge.Fixes from an independent review of the README and the code (every claim checked against the test runs).
notCheckedChargeLimit, keyword status charge_limit) and the log says so.targetCitedInLastRuns covers at most historyDepth checks, this one included (it covered historyDepth + 1).changeStatus values not_tracked and not_checked; keywordIndex is 0-based after de-duplication; what "the same URL listed twice" covers; measured numbers updated.Fixes from the platform test runs of 0.1.3 (337 keywords, including one run of 250 US keywords).
type: page, video, product (a Google Shopping product card: domain google.com, no page URL) or item (an entry of a list in the answer, such as "Dried fruit" from instagram.com). Product cards and list entries were marked isVideo: true before (32 product cards in the 250-keyword run); isVideo is now true for videos only. List entries have an empty siteName (the card repeats the entry's name where the site name would be).&t=…) and once as a whole stays listed twice (12 such videos in that run).changed for this reason. (Histories written before 0.1.4 lack the data for this; the first comparison after the update works as before.)absent and its note says so.failed row too.SOURCE_REPORT.keywords.notCheckedTimeLimit counts the keywords left out.Fixes from the first platform test runs of 0.1.2 (US, Turkey, Germany; 42 keywords).
rank at all (2 of 19 US rows, 2 of 10 Turkish rows); ids are now compared by their last part.failed (not billed) with a plain reason. The run report counts them (keywords.overviewStillGeneratingRetried / …Recovered).google.com/url?q=…) is read from its parameter, and a "redirect notice" page from its outside link. The platform prefill run of 0.1.1 left 1 of 9 tokens unresolved; its cause could not be reproduced (the AI Overview had changed), so the run report now counts the reasons (sourceUrls.failReasons)._debugSaveHtml input stores the pages a run saw in its key-value store.First version (private; platform test runs pending).
overviewState (present, present_no_sources, absent) with a note, the full answer as text and Markdown (the parts Google appends at the end of the page are read too: 29–70% of the answer text in tests), answerHash./goto?url=…, /url?…) are resolved with one short request each through a residential proxy (resolveSourceUrls, on by default); the cited page is never visited.rank (order of first citation in the answer text, "+N" chip companions included), panelRank (source panel order as served), namedInText (the chip names the source).targetState (cited, competitor_cited, not_cited, no_overview, overview_no_sources), ranks and cited URLs; per competitor cited, citedUrls, rank, panelRank, namedInText. Subdomains match their domain.trackChanges, on by default): history in the named key-value store google-ai-overview-tracker of the user's account under trackingId (default derived from keywords, country and language); changeStatus (baseline / unchanged / changed), gained and lost domains and URLs, answerChanged, overviewChange, targetChange, targetCitedInLastRuns.includeOrganicResults option was built and removed before release. The page-1 organic list changed almost completely between two fetches of the same query in 9 of 15 measured cases (0–1 of 8 results in common), 8 of them with an identical AI Overview, so a single check's organic position is not a reliable rank. No output field carries organic data.maxKeywords (default 100), 5 keywords in parallel, one re-fetch when Google answers with an unreadable page.keyword-checked event per keyword with a definitive result (including "no AI Overview"); failed checks, duplicates and the run report are free. Batch and Standby modes use the same event.SOURCE_REPORT (per-keyword status, states, change summary, request counts, latency).GET /check, up to 5 keywords per request) with an OpenAPI description; the listing runs in batch mode.