Keyword Research Tool: Autocomplete Keywords, Intent & Clusters

What does Keyword Research Tool do?

Keyword Research Tool turns a few seed keywords into hundreds of real long-tail keywords from Google, YouTube, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Amazon autocomplete, then does the analysis you would otherwise do by hand in a spreadsheet:

• 🔁 Deduplicates suggestions across every query and source.
• 🎯 Labels each keyword with its search intent: transactional, commercial, navigational or informational.
• ❓ Detects questions, comparisons and prepositions, like AnswerThePublic.
• 🧩 Groups keywords into topic clusters so you can plan one page per cluster.
• 📊 Ranks keywords by a popularity score based on how often and how high they appear in autocomplete.

It works in English, Spanish and Portuguese (question and comparison expansions included) and in any other language with alphabet expansion. It's a Google autocomplete scraper, a keyword suggestions API and a lightweight AnswerThePublic alternative in one Actor.

Why use this keyword research tool?

• ✍️ Content and SEO planning: find the questions people ask and group them into articles.
• 🛒 E-commerce and Amazon sellers: discover product keywords buyers type into Amazon search.
• 🎬 YouTube creators: find video topics from YouTube autocomplete.
• 📣 PPC: build keyword lists and negative keywords by intent.
• 🤖 AI agents and automations: clean JSON through the Apify API, MCP server, Make, Zapier or n8n.

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
keyword	The keyword
intent / intentSignals	Search intent and the words that decided it
pattern / questionWord	question, comparison, preposition or other; the question word
cluster / clusterSize	Topic cluster label and how many keywords share it
relevance / score	Popularity proxy (0-100 within the run) and its raw value
sources / sourceCount	Which autocomplete sources suggested it
occurrences / bestPosition	How many suggestion lists contained it and its best position
seed / modifiers / depth	Where it came from

The run also stores a CLUSTERS record with every cluster, its dominant intent and its top keywords, and a SUMMARY record with request statistics per source.

How to do keyword research with autocomplete

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter one or more seed keywords, for example crm software.
3. Pick the sources (Google is the default) and set the language and country.
4. Click Start. A seed usually takes under a minute.
5. Open the Overview, By cluster or Questions view, or export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing with platform usage included: $1.20 per 1,000 keywords returned. You only pay for unique keywords delivered, never for duplicates or failed requests.

• One seed with the default expansions on Google typically returns 200-400 keywords: about $0.25-0.50.
• Use Max keywords to cap the cost of every run. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit to try it.

Input

See the Input tab for every option. The most useful ones:

• Expansion: alphabet (seed a ... seed z), questions (how seed, cómo seed, como seed), prepositions (seed for, seed para), comparisons (seed vs, seed alternatives) and digits.
• Deep expansion: expands the best keywords of each seed again to reach deeper long tail.
• Filters: only keywords containing the seed, excluded words, and the maximum number of keywords.
• Country: also selects the Amazon marketplace (US, CA, MX, BR, UK, ES, DE, FR, IT).

Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel. Example items:

[
  {
    "keyword": "crm software for small business",
    "intent": "unclassified",
    "pattern": "preposition",
    "cluster": "small business",
    "clusterSize": 12,
    "relevance": 100,
    "sources": ["bing", "google"],
    "occurrences": 4,
    "bestPosition": 1,
    "seed": "crm software"
  },
  {
    "keyword": "how to choose crm software",
    "intent": "informational",
    "pattern": "question",
    "questionWord": "how",
    "cluster": "choose",
    "clusterSize": 3,
    "relevance": 41,
    "sources": ["google"],
    "seed": "crm software"
  }
]

How the analysis works

• Intent is rule-based and multilingual: words like buy, price, precio, preço mean transactional; best, vs, mejor, melhor mean commercial; login, sign in, iniciar sesión mean navigational; questions and words like guide, ejemplos, dicas mean informational. Keywords with no clear signal are marked unclassified instead of being guessed.
• Clusters group keywords by their most shared topic term, after removing the seed and grammar words, so crm free trial and free crm for startups both go to free. Keywords with no shared term go to other; keywords that only restate the seed go to general.
• Relevance is not search volume. Autocomplete does not publish volumes; relevance tells you which keywords autocomplete shows most often and highest, which correlates with demand.

Tips

• Add Bing and DuckDuckGo to confirm keywords: those found in several sources are usually the strongest.
• For Spanish or Portuguese markets set the language (es, pt) and the country (ar, mx, es, br...) together.
• Use Exclude words to remove competitor brands, or Only keywords that contain the seed to stay on topic.

FAQ

Does it give search volume or keyword difficulty?

No. Those come from paid data providers. Use the relevance score to prioritize, and check volumes for your shortlist in your SEO tool of choice.

Do I need a proxy?

Usually not. If a source shows up as skipped in the SUMMARY record, lower Max concurrency per source or enable a proxy in the Advanced section.

Is it legal?

The Actor collects public autocomplete suggestions, the same ones any visitor sees while typing, and no personal data. You are responsible for using the results in line with the terms of each search engine and the laws of your country.

Investigación de palabras clave en español

Sí: configurá language en es y el país (ar, mx, es, co...). Las preguntas (cómo, qué, por qué), comparaciones y la intención de búsqueda funcionan en español y portugués.

I found a bug or need another source

Open an issue in the Issues tab with your input. Requests are welcome.