People Also Ask Scraper: Google PAA questions, related searches and AI Overviews

People Also Ask Scraper collects the People Also Ask (PAA) questions Google shows for any keyword, including the follow-up questions that appear when a question is opened (up to 4 levels deep). It also saves the related searches and, optionally, Google's AI Overview text with its cited sources. Any country, city, language and device, in bulk, with no proxies or browser.

• ❓ 4-20 real questions per keyword with the question tree (level, parent_question).
• 🔎 Related searches for free in the same run.
• 🤖 AI Overview add-on: the answer Google's AI gives and which sites it cites, for AEO/GEO research.
• 🌍 Countries, cities and languages, desktop or mobile.
• 💸 $0.0055 per keyword + $0.0006 per question, no start fee.

Wrenfield Search Data: keyword and AI-search visibility data, priced per result

• Keyword data: Keyword Search Volume · Keyword Difficulty · Keyword Research · Autocomplete Expander · Google Trends · People Also Ask · Competitor Keywords · Keyword Gap
• AI search visibility: AI Search Visibility Tracker · Google AI Overview Scraper · AI Answer Scraper · Agency AI Visibility Reports
• Site and domain SEO: Domain Authority & Traffic · Bulk PageSpeed · SEO Toolkit · SEO Agency Report

What data do you get?

Each row has a type:

type	text holds	Extra fields
question	A People Also Ask question	level (1 = on the page, 2+ = revealed by opening a question), parent_question, position, and answer, answer_url, answer_domain when Google shows a classic snippet answer
related_search	A related search from the bottom of the page	position
ai_overview	Google's AI Overview text (Markdown)	ai_overview_references with title, URL and domain of each cited source

How to scrape People Also Ask

1. Enter your Keywords, one per line.
2. Pick the Location (country, or a city like London,England,United Kingdom) and Language.
3. Set Question depth (2 is a good default) and optionally turn on Include AI Overview.
4. Click Start and export the questions to Excel, CSV or JSON.

Use cases

• Content and FAQ ideas: answer the exact questions searchers ask, and add FAQ schema.
• AEO / GEO research: see what Google's AI Overview says about your topic and which sites it cites.
• Topic clusters: turn the question tree into H2s and supporting articles.
• Keyword research: feed the questions into Keyword Search Volume to size them.

Input example

{
    "keywords": ["how to start a blog"],
    "location": "United States",
    "language": "English",
    "clickDepth": 2,
    "includeRelatedSearches": true,
    "includeAiOverview": false
}

Output example

[
    {
        "keyword": "how to start a blog",
        "type": "question",
        "text": "How much money to start a blog?",
        "position": 4,
        "level": 1,
        "parent_question": null,
        "answer": null,
        "answer_url": null,
        "location": "United States",
        "language": "English",
        "device": "desktop"
    },
    {
        "keyword": "how to start a blog",
        "type": "question",
        "text": "Do bloggers make any money?",
        "position": 5,
        "level": 2,
        "parent_question": "How much money to start a blog?",
        "location": "United States"
    },
    {
        "keyword": "keyword research",
        "type": "related_search",
        "text": "Free keyword research tool",
        "position": 2
    }
]

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Paid Apify plans get automatic volume discounts.

Event	Price
Keyword search (keyword-search)	$0.0055 per keyword searched on Google
People Also Ask question (paa-question)	$0.0006 per question returned
AI Overview check (ai-overview-check)	$0.005 per keyword (only with Include AI Overview)

Related searches are free. A typical keyword at depth 2 returns about 9 questions, so it costs about $0.011. 100 keywords cost about $1.09, or about $1.59 with AI Overviews.

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap your spend. Free Apify plan: 3 keywords per run, without AI Overviews.

Use it through the API, on a schedule or with AI agents

One-link MCP setup: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=wrenfield-data/people-also-ask-scraper (Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client). Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run to cap what it can charge.

Run it from Python, JavaScript or any HTTP client with the Apify API, schedule it to track changes every week or month, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets and other integrations. AI agents can call it through the Apify MCP server.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/wrenfield-data~people-also-ask-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["how to start a blog"], "clickDepth": 2}'

FAQ

Why are many answer fields empty? Google now answers most People Also Ask questions with AI-generated text that loads separately, so there's often no classic snippet to save. Turn on Include AI Overview to capture Google's AI answer for the keyword itself.

Why do some keywords have no questions? Google doesn't show People Also Ask for every search. Those keywords are listed in the run SUMMARY, and you only pay the keyword-search fee for them.

Can I target a city? Yes. Use the full Google location name, e.g. New York,New York,United States.

Related SEO tools

A complete keyword research and SEO toolkit from the same developer. Every tool exports flat JSON, CSV or Excel, so one dataset feeds the next:

• Keyword Search Volume & Keyword Research: bulk Google Keyword Planner search volume, CPC, competition, trends and keyword ideas
• Bulk Keyword Difficulty Checker: SEO keyword difficulty (0-100) and search intent for thousands of keywords
• Competitor Keywords: every keyword a domain ranks for, with position, URL, volume and traffic
• Google Autocomplete Keyword Expander: hundreds of long-tail ideas from Google and YouTube autocomplete
• Domain Authority & Traffic Checker: bulk domain authority, backlinks and organic traffic
• AI Search Visibility Tracker: check if ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews mention your brand
• Google Trends Scraper: interest over time, by region, related queries and Trending Now

Feedback and support

Missing a field, hit an error, or need another country or option? Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run ID. We read every issue and reply there.

Acceptable use

• This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google or DataForSEO.
• Don't use the data to build a competing search engine, or otherwise to compete with or harm Google or the other search engines the data comes from.
• The Actor may not be used from, or for people or organizations in, Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea, Crimea or the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.
• You are responsible for using the results lawfully, including privacy laws such as GDPR for any personal data they contain.