Baidu Search Results — China SERP & Rank Tracker

Get live organic search results from Baidu — China's dominant search engine — for any keyword, returned as clean, ranked rows you can drop straight into a spreadsheet, dashboard or database. For every keyword you get the rank position, destination URL, domain, title and snippet.

If you do SEO, brand monitoring, or competitive research in the Chinese market, this is the Baidu equivalent of a Google SERP scraper: track where you and your competitors rank, monitor keyword visibility over time, and pull the actual URLs Baidu is sending Chinese users to. No login, no account, no API key — just keywords in, ranked results out.

Why Baidu

Baidu handles the majority of search in mainland China, where Google is not available. If your customers, distributors or competitors are in China, Baidu rankings are where visibility is won or lost — and there is almost no clean, structured way to pull that data. This Actor fills that gap.

What you get

Field	Description
query	The keyword that produced this result
rank	Organic rank position on the Baidu SERP
url	The destination URL Baidu links to
domain	Host/domain of the result (great for site-level rank tracking)
title	The real result headline (from Baidu's desktop SERP)
officialSite	true when Baidu marks the result an official/verified site
snippet	The result's abstract / description text
matchesTargetDomain	true when the result matches your tracked domain
searchEngine / dataSource	Provenance of the row

Note on data quality: rank, url, domain, title and snippet are all pulled from Baidu's server-rendered desktop results — so titles are the real result headlines (not just the source name) and snippets are the real result abstracts. If the desktop SERP is ever blocked, the Actor automatically falls back to the mobile SERP, which still returns rank + URL + domain.

Input

• Search keywords (queries) — a list of keywords; each returns its own ranked set. Supports Chinese and English terms.
• Single keyword (query) — convenience field for one-off searches.
• Max results per keyword (maxResults) — default 20.
• Track a target domain (targetDomain) — flags every result whose domain matches, so you can instantly see where your site (or a competitor's) ranks.
• Proxy (optional) — Baidu's mobile SERP is reachable without a proxy; enable one only for high-volume runs.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["跨境电商", "cross-border ecommerce", "your brand"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "targetDomain": "yourbrand.com"
}

Example output row

{
  "query": "跨境电商",
  "rank": 3,
  "title": "知乎",
  "url": "https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1947624102371",
  "domain": "zhuanlan.zhihu.com",
  "snippet": "...",
  "matchesTargetDomain": false,
  "searchEngine": "baidu",
  "dataSource": "baidu.com mobile SERP (live)"
}

Use cases

• Rank tracking — monitor where your domain ranks for a basket of keywords on Baidu, day over day. Set targetDomain and filter on matchesTargetDomain.
• Competitor visibility — see which domains own the first page for your category keywords in China.
• Brand monitoring — track which pages surface for your brand name on Baidu (forums, news, marketplaces, review sites).
• Keyword & content research — discover the URLs and sources Baidu rewards for a topic before you build content.
• Share of voice — aggregate rankings across a keyword set to measure your slice of the Chinese SERP.

Track rankings over time (recommended)

Rank tracking is most valuable as a time series. Put this Actor on a Schedule in Apify Console (e.g. daily at 08:00) with your keyword list and targetDomain set, and point it at the same named dataset each run (or use the default and export periodically). Each run appends a dated snapshot, so over weeks you build a rank-history table you can chart:

1. Apify Console → your Actor → Schedules → Create schedule → set frequency (daily/weekly).
2. Use input like:

{
  "queries": ["your brand", "category keyword", "competitor brand"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "targetDomain": "yourbrand.com"
}

3. Filter the combined dataset on matchesTargetDomain = true to see exactly where you ranked each day.

Tips

• Run it on a schedule (e.g. daily) and append to a dataset to build a rank-history time series.
• Batch many keywords in one run via the queries list — it is far cheaper than one run per keyword.
• Mix Chinese and English keywords freely; Baidu indexes both.

Reliability

Baidu gates its SERP behind a session cookie and is sensitive to the requesting IP. This Actor warms a cookie per session, routes through Apify Proxy (rotating IPs) by default, detects verification blocks and automatically retries on a fresh IP. If Baidu blocks every attempt, the run fails loudly with a clear message instead of reporting an empty success — so you can trust that a successful run means real data. For high-volume runs, select RESIDENTIAL proxy groups.

FAQ

Do I need a Baidu account or API key? No. The Actor handles the session automatically.

Does it need a proxy? No for normal use. A proxy option is available for high-volume runs.

Desktop or mobile results? It reads Baidu's mobile SERP, which is the most reliably accessible surface; rankings closely mirror what Chinese mobile users see (the majority of Baidu traffic).

Are paid ads included? No — ad and Baidu-internal slots are filtered out so you get organic results only.

Can it track a specific page's rank? Yes — set targetDomain and filter the output on matchesTargetDomain.

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