Google Autocomplete Scraper — Keyword Suggestions & Long-Tail Ideas at Scale

Get the exact phrases people type into Google. Expand any seed keyword into dozens or hundreds of real Google Autocomplete suggestions — long-tail keywords, questions and content ideas — as clean CSV or JSON.

No proxies, no browser, no API key to manage: enter seed keywords, pick a country, and run.

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What does Google Autocomplete Scraper do?

For every seed keyword you give it, the Actor asks Google Autocomplete for suggestions and returns one row per suggestion, with Google's own relevance score and the position it was shown in.

Turn on expansion mode and each seed is multiplied automatically before it is sent:

• Alphabet appends a–z (best crm for a, best crm for b … ) — 27 queries per seed.
• Questions prepends 12 modifiers — how, what, why, when, where, who, which, best, vs, is, can, are — 13 queries per seed.
• Both does alphabet and questions — 39 queries per seed.

Suggestions are deduplicated per seed, so a phrase that several expansions surface is returned once. A maxExpansions cap limits the total number of queries in a run, which keeps cost predictable.

What you get per suggestion

Field	Description
seed	The seed keyword you entered
query	The exact query sent to Google Autocomplete (the seed itself, or an expansion such as how meal prep)
suggestion	The autocomplete suggestion Google returned
relevance	Google's relevance score for the suggestion — higher means a stronger suggestion
rank	Position of the suggestion in Google's list for that query (1 = top)

Google returns up to about 15 suggestions per query. A run summary (seeds, queries and suggestion counts) is saved to the key-value store as OUTPUT.

Use cases

• Long-tail keyword research — find specific, lower-competition phrases around a head term.
• Content and FAQ ideas — question mode surfaces the questions people actually ask.
• PPC keyword expansion — grow ad group keyword lists and spot negative keywords.
• Niche and audience discovery — alphabet mode on best crm for reveals the industries people search for (best crm for dentists, best crm for dealerships …).
• Local SEO — run the same seeds in several countries and compare.
• AI agents and automations — structured JSON for n8n, Make, Zapier or MCP tools.

How to use Google Autocomplete Scraper

1. Enter one or more seed keywords — open-ended prefixes such as best crm for or topics such as meal prep work best.
2. Choose the country and language.
3. Optionally pick an expansion mode (alphabet, questions or both) and set max queries to cap the run.
4. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["best crm for", "crm software for"],
  "locationCode": "2840",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "expansionMode": "alphabet",
  "maxExpansions": 60
}

Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array of strings	— (required)	Seed keywords, 1–200 per run.
locationCode	string	"2840"	Country: 2840 United States, 2826 United Kingdom, 2124 Canada, 2036 Australia, 2356 India, 2276 Germany, 2250 France, 2724 Spain.
languageCode	string	"en"	Language code, e.g. en, es, de, fr.
expansionMode	string	"none"	none (seeds only), alphabet (a–z), questions (12 question/modifier prefixes) or both.
maxExpansions	integer	300	Hard cap on total queries per run (seeds + expansions), 1–2,000. Queries past the cap are skipped in seed order.

Example output

Real rows from a run with the seed meal prep in question mode (US, English):

[
  { "seed": "meal prep", "query": "meal prep", "suggestion": "meal prep ideas", "relevance": 1100, "rank": 1 },
  { "seed": "meal prep", "query": "meal prep", "suggestion": "meal prep containers", "relevance": 601, "rank": 3 },
  { "seed": "meal prep", "query": "how meal prep", "suggestion": "how meal prep for a week", "relevance": 1250, "rank": 1 },
  { "seed": "meal prep", "query": "why meal prep", "suggestion": "why meal prep is bad", "relevance": 1250, "rank": 1 },
  { "seed": "meal prep", "query": "when meal prep", "suggestion": "when meal prepping how long does it last", "relevance": 601, "rank": 1 }
]

How much does it cost to scrape Google Autocomplete?

Pay per event — no monthly fee, no minimum. You pay for suggestions actually returned; a query that returns nothing costs you nothing.

Event	Price (Free & Bronze plans)
Actor start	$0.001 per run
Suggestion returned	$0.001 per suggestion ($1 per 1,000)

Apify Silver plans get 10% off and Gold plans 20% off these prices.

Worked examples, measured on real runs:

Run	Queries	Suggestions	Cost
1 seed, no expansion	1	~15	~$0.016
meal prep, question mode	13	162	$0.163
best crm for + crm software for, alphabet mode	54	693	$0.694

Use maxExpansions to cap spend: at most ~15 suggestions come back per query, so maxExpansions × 15 × $0.001 is a safe upper bound.

FAQ

How many suggestions do I get per seed? Up to about 15 per query. Without expansion that is up to ~15 per seed; alphabet mode typically returns 300+ unique suggestions per seed.

Why are some expansions empty? Google only suggests completions it has data for. An expansion like vs meal prep may return few or no suggestions — you are only charged for suggestions returned.

Which countries and languages are supported? The eight countries listed above, with any language code Google supports for that market.

Are results deduplicated? Yes, per seed: a suggestion surfaced by several expansions of the same seed is returned once, under the first query that produced it.

Can I use it with AI agents? Yes — the output is flat JSON, ready for MCP servers, n8n, Make and LLM agents.

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Tags: google autocomplete, keyword suggestions, long tail keywords, keyword research, content ideas, seo keywords, autosuggest, search suggestions, ppc keywords, question keywords.