getKeywordRankings

Returns all URLs for a single keyword from the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

Route /keywords/getKeywordRankings[/:key[/:keyword[/:sengine[/:format[/:limit[/:skip[/:date]]]]]]]
Necessary parameter keyword
sengine

Optional parameter format
limit (max:1000)
skip
date

Return value url
position
Cross reference getSearchEngines() – getting all searchengines.
Hint Limit: The maximum limit is 1000. To get more results, please use the parameter skip.

Parameter

Labeling Description Values margin Default value
keyword Contains a particular keyword. (A-Z|a-z|0-9)+
sengine Contains a search engine which is crawled by XOVI. google.de|google.at|google.ch|
bing.de
date Contains a concrete date in ISO8601 format. Date: YYYY-MM-DD date from the week before
limit Defines the amount of the returned results.(max:1000) 0-1000 10
skip Defines the starting page of the result. One page equals the the value of limit. (0-9)+ 0
format Defines in which format the result will be returned. json|xml json

Return values

Labeling Description Values margin
url Shows the best ranking url. http[s]?://(www.)?(A-Z|a-z|0-9)+.(a-z)+
position Contains the best position of a keyword in a certain period of time. (0-9)+

Messages

Message Description
maximum limit exeeded The maximum limit is reached.
no permission The key has no access to this function.
internal error An internal error occured.
param missing A required parameter is missing.
param invalid The value of a parameter is not valid.
result empty The request was successful, but the result itself is empty.
cost error The current credit amount is not sufficient to handle the request.
0k. The processing was successful.

Exemplary code

$arrayParams= array(
     'service' => 'keywords',
     'method' =>'getKeywordRankings',
     'key' =>'yourPersonalKey',
     'keyword' =>'seo',
     'sengine' => 'google.de',
     'format' => 'json',
 );
$GETparams = implode('/', $arrayParams);

$requestURL = $root.$GETparams;

if (!function_exists('curl_init')) die('cURL not available');

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $requestURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Download the given URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// Close the cURL resource, and free system resources
curl_close($ch);

echo $output;

Exemplary results

JSON

{
 "apiErrorCode":"0",
 "apiErrorMessage":"0k.",
 "apiResult":[
     {
         "url":"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suchmaschinenoptimierung",
         "position":"1"
     },
     {
         "url":"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seo",
         "position":"2"
     },
     {
         "url":"http:\/\/www.seo-united.de\/",
         "position":"3"
     },
     { 
         "url":"http:\/\/suchmaschinenoptimierung.michaelsattler.de\/",
         "position":"4"
     },
     { 
         "url":"http:\/\/seo.de\/",
         "position":"5"
     }]
}

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<result>
    <apiErrorCode>0</apiErrorCode>
    <apiErrorMessage>0k.</apiErrorMessage>
    <apiResult>
        <keywordrankings>
            <keywordranking>
                <url>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchmaschinenoptimierung</url>
                <position>1</position>
            </keywordranking>
            <keywordranking>
                <url>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seo</url>
                <position>2</position>
            </keywordranking>
            <keywordranking>
                <url>http://www.seo-united.de/</url>
                <position>3</position>
            </keywordranking>
            <keywordranking>
                <url>http://suchmaschinenoptimierung.michaelsattler.de/</url>
                <position>4</position>
            </keywordranking>
            <keywordranking>
                <url>http://seo.de/</url>
                <position>5</position>
            </keywordranking>
        </keywordrankings>
    </apiResult>
</result>