# Competitor Keywords – What Any Domain Ranks For on Google (`rowfeed/competitor-keywords`) Actor

See every Google keyword a website ranks for: position, URL, search volume, CPC, keyword difficulty, intent and estimated traffic, plus a visibility summary per domain.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowfeed/competitor-keywords.md
- **Developed by:** [Rowfeed](https://apify.com/rowfeed) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing, AI
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 3 monthly users, 95.2% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 ranked keywords

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Competitor Keywords – What Any Domain Ranks For on Google

See every Google keyword a website ranks for: its position, the ranking URL, monthly search volume, CPC, keyword difficulty, search intent and the traffic each keyword brings.
Built for SEO teams, agencies, content marketers and AI agents doing competitor research, without a Semrush or Ahrefs subscription.
The data comes from a licensed SEO data provider (DataForSEO's Google ranking database), so there is no scraping and no blocked runs.

### What you get

- **One summary row per domain**: total ranked keywords (or, with a position filter, the keywords in those positions; see `summary_scope`), estimated monthly organic traffic and its Google Ads value, keywords in position 1 / top 3 / top 10, and how many are new, up or down. Free.
- **One row per ranked keyword**, the ones bringing the most traffic first: position, URL and title of the ranking page, search volume, CPC, competition, keyword difficulty (0–100), intent, estimated traffic, previous position and SERP features.
- **Filters**: number of keywords per domain (up to 10,000), only first-page (or top N) rankings, any country and language.

### Example output

Real rows from a run with the default input (python.org, United States, English).

Summary row:

```json
{
  "row_type": "domain_summary",
  "domain": "python.org",
  "ranked_keywords_total": 74803,
  "estimated_monthly_traffic": 469369.0,
  "estimated_traffic_value_usd": 1159772.56,
  "keywords_top_1": 10681,
  "keywords_top_3": 21467,
  "keywords_top_10": 42254,
  "keywords_new": 34788,
  "keywords_up": 12512,
  "keywords_down": 12179,
  "location": "United States",
  "language": "English",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-13T07:38:33+00:00",
  "summary_scope": "all positions"
}
```

Keyword row:

```json
{
  "row_type": "keyword",
  "domain": "python.org",
  "keyword": "python download",
  "position": 1,
  "position_absolute": 1,
  "result_type": "organic",
  "url": "https://www.python.org/downloads/",
  "title": "Download Python",
  "search_volume": 60500,
  "cpc_usd": 7.67,
  "competition": "LOW",
  "keyword_difficulty": 33,
  "search_intent": "transactional",
  "estimated_traffic": 23716.1,
  "previous_position_absolute": 1,
  "is_new": false,
  "is_up": false,
  "is_down": false,
  "search_volume_trend_yearly_pct": -18.0,
  "serp_features": ["organic", "people_also_ask", "related_searches"],
  "google_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=python%20download&hl=en&gl=US&ie=UTF-8&uule=w+CAIQIFISCQs2MuSEtepUEUK33kOSuTsc",
  "location": "United States",
  "language": "English",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-13T07:38:33+00:00"
}
```

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `domains` | Websites to analyse: `semrush.com`, `https://www.example.com/blog` (scheme, www and path are stripped). Up to 50 per run. |
| `maxKeywordsPerDomain` | How many keywords per domain, most traffic first. Default 20, up to 10,000. |
| `maxPosition` | Only keywords ranking at this position or better, e.g. `10` = first page. `100` = all. |
| `location` | `United States`, `United Kingdom`, `Germany` ... Empty = all locations. |
| `language` | `English`, `German` ... Empty = all languages. |

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

- **$2 per 1,000 ranked keywords** ($0.002 each).
- **$0.02 per domain lookup** of up to 1,000 keywords. Failed lookups are free. The summary row is free.
- $0.001 per run start.

Examples: the top 100 keywords of one domain cost about $0.22. 1,000 keywords cost about $2.02.

**Try it for $0.001:** the pre-filled example (python.org, 20 keywords, United States, English) is answered from a saved snapshot of a real lookup (rows carry `from_snapshot: true`) and costs only the $0.001 run start. Change anything and the lookup runs live.

**Free Apify plan:** the pre-filled example works on any plan. Live lookups need a paid Apify plan (any plan), because each one costs real money at the data provider; on the free plan the run returns a `paid_plan_required` row and charges nothing beyond the start.

You can cap the cost of a run with the maximum charge setting. The Actor only requests as many keywords as your budget can pay for, charges a lookup only when it succeeds, and stops after the first failed lookup.

### Good to know

- Rankings and traffic estimates come from a ranking database refreshed regularly, not from a live Google search at run time. `checked_at` is the run time.
- `estimated_traffic` is a model estimate (search volume × click-through rate at that position), useful for comparing keywords and competitors, not an exact visit count.
- Error rows carry `error` and `errorMessage` and are never charged.

### Related tools

- [Google Search Results API](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-serp-api) – Google results for any query and country, with your domain's rank. $4 per 1,000 searches.
- [Google News Monitor](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-news-monitor) – Google News articles for any query, with a monitor mode for new articles only.
- [Keyword Search Volume](https://apify.com/rowfeed/keyword-search-volume) – monthly Google search volume, CPC and competition for any keyword list, or keyword ideas from seeds.
- [Google Trends Explorer](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-trends-explorer) – Google Trends interest over time for up to 5 compared keywords, with peak and trend.

Not affiliated with Google, Semrush or Ahrefs.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Websites to analyse, e.g. "semrush.com" or a full URL (scheme, www and path are stripped). Up to 50 per run.

## `maxKeywordsPerDomain` (type: `integer`):

How many ranked keywords to return per domain, the ones bringing the most estimated traffic first. Up to 10,000.

## `maxPosition` (type: `integer`):

Only return keywords where the domain ranks at this Google position or better, e.g. 10 = first page only. 100 = all. The summary row then also counts only these positions.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Country as Google names it, e.g. "United States", "United Kingdom", "Germany". Leave empty for all locations.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language name, e.g. "English", "German". Leave empty for all languages.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "ahrefs.com",
    "semrush.com"
  ],
  "maxKeywordsPerDomain": 20,
  "maxPosition": 100,
  "location": "United States",
  "language": "English"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rowfeed/competitor-keywords").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rowfeed/competitor-keywords").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call rowfeed/competitor-keywords --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowfeed/competitor-keywords"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rOQSJ9uypjmuLE3ID/builds/FhT2u4Bcj9lqkgbME/openapi.json