keyword-checker

This script lets you fetch websites rankings from google search engine using list of keywords via command line or url.

Script was made only for educational purpose, use it on your own risk.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Things you need to install.

PHP (tested on PHP 8.0.7)

Executing script

Script can be executed via command line or url

Executing via command line

commands examples:

php keyword_checker.php "web design,online shopping"
php keyword_checker.php "programming" "https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q="
php keyword_checker.php "scripting" "https://www.google.com/search?num=10&q=" "My useragent"

param[0] - script file name and location, in this case: keyword_checker.php
param[1] - list of keywords separated by comma
param[2] (optional) - google search query url, you can add additional params, localisation etc...
param[3] (optional) - custom user agent name, sometimes websites restrict specific useragents or allow them

Executing via url

You can place script in web server and execute via url for example:

http://localhost/keyword_checker.php?keywords=web+design,online+shopping
http://localhost/keyword_checker.php?keywords=web+design,online+shopping&search_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fnum%3D100%26q%3D
http://localhost/keyword_checker.php?keywords=web+design,online+shopping&search_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fnum%3D10%26q%3D&useragent=my+useragent

keywords - list of keywords separated by comma
search_url (optional) - google search query url, you can add additional params, localisation etc...
useragent (optional) - custom user agent name, sometimes websites restrict specific useragents or allow them

IMPORTANT: Do not forget to encode url params using url encode

Result

On success script returns data in json format for example:

[
   {
      "fetch_url":"https://www.google.com/search?num=10&q=programming",
      "keyword":"programming",
      "positions":[
         "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming",
         "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language",
         "https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/2018/06/what-is-computer-programming",
         "https://hackr.io/blog/what-is-programming",
         "https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/programming-101/0/steps/43783",
         "https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-programming",
         "https://www.python.org/",
         "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjov-2OZ0E",
         "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRGjwYgdT4"
      ],
      "error":""
   },
   {
      "fetch_url":"https://www.google.com/search?num=10&q=golang",
      "keyword":"golang",
      "positions":[
         "https://golang.org/",
         "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)",
         "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4e4q9oBaU",
         "https://github.com/golang/go",
         "https://mobile.twitter.com/golang",
         "https://go.dev/",
         "https://pkg.go.dev/std"
      ],
      "error":""
   }
]

fetch_url - full url used to fetch data from.
keyword - keyword.
positions - website rankings where first item in array is first result in search engine.
error - error message.

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