🔍 Semrush Keyword Scraper — Volume, CPC, Difficulty & Intent at Scale

Turn any seed keyword into a full, ranked list of high-opportunity keywords — search volume, CPC, competition, keyword difficulty, SERP features and search intent — across 47 regional databases.

This Actor plugs straight into Apify, accepts a single keyword, and returns Semrush keyword metrics in a clean dataset you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or RSS — or pipe directly into your scraping, n8n, Make, Zapier, Looker Studio or GPT workflows. No Semrush login required.

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💡 Who is it for?

• SEO agencies building keyword lists for clients at scale.
• Content teams running bulk topic discovery for blogs, landing pages and programmatic SEO.
• PPC & paid search managers hunting low-CPC, low-competition keywords before bidding.
• Affiliate marketers & dropshippers validating niches and product demand in any market.
• E-commerce founders sizing a market before launching a new category or region.
• Data teams enriching a CRM, ad platform or internal dashboard with keyword metrics.

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⚙️ How it works

You give the Actor a keyword, a country database, and a match type. It pulls the full keyword ideas report from Semrush, paginates through as many pages as you need (100 keywords per page), and pushes every keyword as a structured row into the Apify dataset.

Match types supported

Match type	What it returns
Phrase	Keywords containing the exact phrase in any order
Exact	Keywords containing the exact phrase as-is
Broad	Broad variations including synonyms and related terms
Related	Semantically related keywords (perfect for topical clusters)

Coverage

47 country databases: 🇺🇸 US · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇨🇦 CA · 🇦🇺 AU · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇩🇪 DE · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇪🇸 ES · 🇧🇷 BR · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇯🇵 JP · 🇮🇳 IN · 🇸🇬 SG · 🇲🇽 MX · 🇦🇪 AE · and 32 more.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
q	string	✅	Seed keyword (e.g. digital marketing, running shoes)
db	string	✅	Country database code (us, uk, fr, de, …)
type	string	—	Match type: phrase (default), exact, broad, related
pages	integer	—	Pages to fetch — 100 keywords per page (default 1, max 100 = 10,000 keywords)

Example input

{
  "q": "digital marketing",
  "db": "us",
  "type": "phrase",
  "pages": 5
}

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📤 Output

Each keyword is pushed as one row in the dataset. Example item:

{
  "phrase": "digital marketing agency",
  "database": "us",
  "volume": 18100,
  "cpc": 24.35,
  "competition_level": 0.87,
  "difficulty": 71,
  "results": 2140000000,
  "intents": [1, 3],
  "serp_features": [7, 9, 16, 21],
  "trends": [54, 54, 66, 81, 66, 54, 54, 54, 81, 54, 54, 54]
}

Field reference

Field	Meaning
phrase	The keyword
volume	Average monthly search volume
cpc	Cost per click in USD (paid search benchmark)
competition_level	Paid competition index (0.00 → 1.00)
difficulty	Organic keyword difficulty score (0 → 100)
results	Total number of indexed results on Google
intents	Search intent flags (informational, navigational, commercial, transactional)
serp_features	SERP feature codes (featured snippet, People Also Ask, local pack, video, images, etc.)
trends	12-month relative volume trend

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🚀 Why use this Actor

• ✅ Semrush keyword metrics — volume, CPC, difficulty, competition, intent, SERP features and trends in one row.
• ✅ Up to 10,000 keywords per run — in one click, pushed straight into a dataset.
• ✅ 47 markets — international SEO, localization and multi-country PPC in the same workflow.
• ✅ Clean, flat schema — every field typed and ready for BigQuery, Postgres, Sheets or GPT.
• ✅ All match types — phrase, exact, broad, and semantic (related) in a single input.
• ✅ No login, no scraping headaches — authentication and pagination handled for you.
• ✅ Pipeline-ready — trigger from n8n, Make, Zapier, Apify Schedules or the Apify API.

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💼 Use cases

• Programmatic SEO — generate thousands of landing-page keywords per vertical and region.
• Content calendars — cluster related keywords into topic pillars automatically.
• PPC bid lists — pull volume + cpc + competition_level before uploading to Google Ads.
• Niche research — compare volume vs. difficulty across countries in minutes.
• Competitor gap analysis — combine with the Semrush Domain and Semrush Competitor Actors.
• AI content pipelines — feed structured keyword data into GPT for briefs and outlines.

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🧩 Part of the Semrush suite

Chain this Actor with the rest of the suite for a full SEO workflow:

Actor	What it does
🔍 Semrush Keyword	Keyword ideas — volume, CPC, difficulty, intent (this Actor)
🌐 Semrush Domain	Full domain audit — authority, traffic, top keywords
🔗 Semrush Backlink Analytics	Authority-scored backlinks, anchors, referring domains
🥊 Semrush Competitor	Up to 200 organic competitors and keyword overlap

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result — you're charged $0.006 per keyword returned, plus a small per-run start fee. You only pay for keywords you actually receive.

Run	Keywords	Approx. cost
pages = 1	100	~$0.60
pages = 10	1,000	~$6
pages = 100	10,000	~$60

New users get free result credits to try the Actor before spending anything.

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▶️ Start now

Drop a keyword. Pick a country. Click Run. Export your dataset. That's it — you have Semrush keyword intelligence on tap.