SERP Rank Checker – Google Positions by Keyword

Where does your domain rank on Google for each keyword? One live search per keyword in any country, language and device: your position and ranking URL, the top organic domains and URLs, result count and SERP features. Licensed SERP data via DataForSEO, nothing scraped. $8 per 1,000 keywords.

Who this is for

SEO teams, agencies and site owners tracking rankings on a schedule, and AI agents that need a live Google position without scraping Google: feed a keyword list and a domain, get one row per keyword with the position, the ranking page and who sits above it.

Sample output

{
  "keyword": "web scraping api",
  "target_domain": "apify.com",
  "target_position": 6,
  "target_organic_rank": 4,
  "target_url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/api-scraping",
  "target_title": "API scraping | Academy",
  "ranks_in_top_10": true,
  "top_1_domain": "www.scrapingbee.com",
  "top_1_url": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/",
  "top_organic_domains": "[\"www.scrapingbee.com\",\"www.firecrawl.dev\",\"www.scraperapi.com\",\"docs.apify.com\",\"decodo.com\",\"brightdata.com\",\"www.webscrapingapi.com\",\"scrape.do\"]",
  "top_organic_urls": "[\"https://www.scrapingbee.com/\",\"https://www.firecrawl.dev/\",\"https://www.scraperapi.com/\",\"https://docs.apify.com/academy/api-scraping\",\"https://decodo.com/scraping/web\",\"https://brightdata.com/blog/web-data/best-web-scraping-apis\",\"https://www.webscrapingapi.com/\",\"https://scrape.do/blog/best-web-scraping-api/\"]",
  "organic_results_returned": "[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]",
  "se_results_count": 133,
  "serp_features": "[\"ai_overview\",\"organic\",\"people_also_ask\",\"video\",\"related_searches\"]",
  "device": "desktop",
  "location_code": 2840,
  "language_code": "en",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T11:15:08.000Z",
  "check_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=web%20scraping%20api&hl=en&gl=US&ie=UTF-8&uule=w+CAIQIFISCQs2MuSEtepUEUK33kOSuTsc",
  "row_key": "web scraping api|apify.com|2840|en|desktop",
  "source_url": "https://dataforseo.com/apis/serp-api"
}

What you get

One row per keyword. Every row also carries _source (attribution) and the recipe version.

Field	Type
keyword	string, always present
target_domain	string, always present
target_position	number
target_organic_rank	number
target_url	string
target_title	string
ranks_in_top_10	boolean
top_1_domain	string
top_1_url	string
top_organic_domains	string
top_organic_urls	string
organic_results_returned	string
se_results_count	number
serp_features	string
device	string
location_code	number, always present
language_code	string, always present
checked_at	datetime
check_url	url
row_key	string, always present
source_url	string

Results are live Google organic results bought through the DataForSEO SERP API under its licence; the actor never scrapes Google. checked_at is the supplier's search time (UTC). target_position is the absolute position counting every SERP element, target_organic_rank the position among organic results only; both are null when the domain is not in the results read (depth).

top_organic_domains and top_organic_urls are JSON arrays in rank order, serp_features lists the element types Google showed (people_also_ask, video, ai_overview…), and check_url reproduces the search in a browser.

Schedule the actor daily or weekly with the same keyword list to build a rank history; the dataset of each run is one snapshot. Deeper reads (Top 20 to Top 100) cost the supplier more per keyword and are priced the same here, so the default is Top 10.

Bring your own DataForSEO credentials in the two optional inputs if you prefer the supplier charge on your own account; the row price stays the same.

Pricing

Pay per keyword: $0.008 each ($8.00 per 1,000). The first 20 rows of every run are free, so a test costs nothing.

How to run

1. Keep the defaults for the standard sample, or set the inputs (listed last, below).
2. Run. Results land in the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
3. From code or an agent: call it through the API, or as an MCP tool via mcp.apify.com.

Source and fair use

Data: DataForSEO SERP API (Google organic results), licensed. The data is bought from the supplier under its API terms on every run; nothing is scraped from any website. Rows are facts about keywords, and no personal data of individuals is included.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Each run fetches live from the source. Can I get more fields? Open an issue naming the field and where it appears at the source. Something broke? Open an issue. Issues are answered within 12 hours. Found it useful? A short review on this page helps other people find it, and tells us what to improve.

Inputs

• keywords: One keyword per line (commas also work). One live Google search is made per keyword.
• targetDomain: The domain whose position you want, without https or www (e.g. example.com). Subdomains count as the domain.
• location: Country of the Google search (Google Ads location).
• language: Language of the Google search.
• device: Desktop or mobile results.
• depth: How many organic results to read per keyword. Deeper searches cost the supplier more; Top 10 covers page one.
• sandbox: Use the supplier's test environment: same row structure, dummy results, no supplier charge. For wiring tests only.
• dfsLogin: Optional: your own DataForSEO API login. Leave empty to use ours.
• dfsPassword: Optional: your own DataForSEO API password. Leave empty to use ours.
• maxItems: Stop after this many rows.