Setting Live ‘Google Ads Search Volume’ Tasks

full name of search engine location optional field if you do not indicate the location, you will receive worldwide results, i.e., for all available locations; if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_code or location_coordinate you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their location_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/google_ads/locations example: London,England,United Kingdom

search engine location code optional field if you do not indicate the location, you will receive worldwide results, i.e., for all available locations; if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_coordinate; you can receive the list of available locations of the search engines with their location_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/google_ads/locations example: 2840

GPS coordinates of a location optional field if you do not indicate the location, you will receive worldwide results, i.e., for all available locations; if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_code; location_coordinate parameter should be specified in the “latitude,longitude” format; the data will be provided for the country the specified coordinates belong to; example: 52.6178549,-155.352142

full name of search engine language optional field you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their language_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/google_ads/languages example: English

search engine language code optional field you can receive the list of available languages of the search engine with their language_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/google_ads/languages example: en

include Google search partners optional field if you specify true, the results will be delivered for owned, operated, and syndicated networks across Google and partner sites that host Google search; default value: false – results are returned for Google search sites

starting date of the time range optional field date format: "yyyy-mm-dd" minimal value: 4 years from the current date by default, data is returned for the past 12 months; Note: the indicated date cannot be greater than that specified in date_to and/or yesterday’s date;if Status endpoint returns false in the actual_data field, date_from can be set to the month before last and prior; if Status endpoint returns true in the actual_data field, date_from can be set to the last month and prior

ending date of the time range optional field Note: the indicated date cannot be greater than the past month, Google Ads does not return data on the current month; if you don’t specify this field, yesterday’s date will be used by default date format: "yyyy-mm-dd" example: "2022-11-30"

include keywords associated with adult content optional field if set to true, adult keywords will be included in the response default value: false note that the API may return no data for such keywords due to Google Ads restrictions

results sorting parameters optional field use these parameters to sort the results by relevance, search_volume, competition_index, low_top_of_page_bid, or high_top_of_page_bid in the descending order default value: relevance

user-defined task identifier optional field the character limit is 255 you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result you will find the specified tag value in the data array of the response

the current version of the API

general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions

general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here

execution time, seconds

total tasks cost, USD

the number of tasks in the tasks array

the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error

task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format

status code of the task generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000 you can find the full list of the response codes here

informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here

execution time, seconds

cost of the task, USD

number of elements in the result array

keyword keyword is returned with decoded %## (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)

correct spelling of the keyword Note:if the keyword in the POST array appears to be misspelled, data will be returned for the correctly spelled keyword; we use the functionality of Google Ads API to check and validate the spelling of keywords, learn more by this link

location code in a POST array if there is no data, then the value is null

language code in a POST array if there is no data, then the value is null

indicates whether data from partner networks included in the response

competition represents the relative amount of competition associated with the given keyword in paid SERP only; this value is based on Google Ads data and can take the following values: HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW; if there is no data the value is null; learn more about the metric in this help center article

competition represents the relative amount of competition associated with the given keyword in paid SERP only; this value is based on Google Ads data and can be between 0 and 100 (inclusive); if there is no data the value is null; learn more about the metric in this help center article

monthly average search volume rate; represents either the (approximate) number of searches for the given keyword idea on google.com or google.com and partners, depending on the user’s targeting; if there is no data then the value is null

minimum bid for the ad to be displayed at the top of the first page indicates the value greater than about 20% of the lowest bids for which ads were displayed (based on Google Ads statistics for advertisers); the value may differ depending on the location specified in a POST request

maximum bid for the ad to be displayed at the top of the first page indicates the value greater than about 80% of the lowest bids for which ads were displayed (based on Google Ads statistics for advertisers); the value may differ depending on the location specified in a POST request

cost per click indicates the amount paid (USD) for each click on the ad displayed for a given keyword

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month

monthly average search volume rate