Setting Live Bing ‘Search Volume History’ Tasks

‌This endpoint will provide you with historical search volume data for up to 1000 keywords in one request. You can get search volume for keywords in monthly, weekly, or daily format and specify the device type.

If your system requires delivering instant results, the Live method is the best solution for you. Unlike the Standard method, this method doesn’t require making separate POST and GET requests to the corresponding endpoints.

If you don’t need to receive data in real-time, you can use the Standard method of data retrieval. This method requires making separate POST and GET requests, but it’s more affordable. Using this method you can retrieve the results after our system collects them.

checked POST
Pricing

Your account will be charged for each request.
The cost can be calculated on the Pricing page.

All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). The task setting is done using the POST method. When setting a task, you should send all task parameters in the task array of the generic POST array. You can send up to 2000 API calls per minute. Visit DataForSEO Help Center to get practical tips for request handling depending on your Keyword Data API payload volume.

You will get information for every single keyword in an array.

You can send up to 1000 keywords in one keywords array. Our system will charge your account per each request, no matter what number of keywords an array has, the price for 1 or 1000 keywords will be the same.

Below you will find a detailed description of the fields you can use for setting a task.

Description of the fields for setting a task:

Field name Type Description
keywords array keywords
required field
The maximum number of keywords you can specify: 1000
The maximum number of characters for each keyword: 100
the specified keywords will be converted to lowercase, data will be provided in a separate array

learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article
location_name string full name of search engine location
required field if you don’t specify location_code or location_coordinate
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/bing/search_volume_history/locations_and_languages
example:
London,England,United Kingdom
location_code integer search engine location code
required field if you don’t specify location_name or location_coordinate
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/bing/search_volume_history/locations_and_languages
example:
2840
location_coordinate string GPS coordinates of a location
required field if you don’t specify location_name or location_code
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
language_name string full name of search engine language
required field if you don’t specify language_code
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_code
you can receive the list of available languages of the search engines with their language_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/locations_and_languages
language_code string search engine language code
required field if you don’t specify language_name
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_name
you can receive the list of available languages of the search engines with their language_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/locations_and_languages
device array device types
optional field
specify this field if you want to get the data for a particular device types
possible values: mobile, desktop, tablet, non_smartphones
default value: ["mobile", "desktop", "tablet", "non_smartphones"]
period string aggregates the returned data to a certain time period
optional field
specify this field if you want to get the data in monthly, weekly or daily format

possible values: monthly, weekly, daily

monthly – returns data up to past 24 months
weekly – returns data up to past 15 weeks
daily – returns data up to past 45 days

default value: monthly
date_from string starting date of the time range
optional field
minimum value: two years back from today’s date
maximum value: one day from today’s date
date format: "yyyy-mm-dd"
example:
"2020-01-01"

Note: we do not recommend using a custom time range

Note 2: if date_from and date_to parameters are not specified, the data will be returned for the past 24 months

if you specify the period parameter:

with value weekly, you will get results for the past 15 weeks
with value daily, you will get results for the past 45 days
date_to string ending date of the time range
optional field

minimum value: two years back from today’s date;
maximum value: one day from today’s date;
date format: "yyyy-mm-dd"
example:
"2020-03-15"

Note: we do not recommend using a custom time range

Note 2: if date_from and date_to parameters are not specified, the data will be returned for the past 24 months

if you specify the period parameter:

with value weekly, you will get results for the past 15 weeks
with value daily, you will get results for the past 45 days
tag string 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 object of the response

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As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.

Description of the fields in the results array:

Field name Type Description
version string the current version of the API
status_code integer 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
status_message string general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time string execution time, seconds
cost float total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count integer the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_error integer the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasks array array of tasks
        id string task identifier
unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
        status_code integer status code of the task
generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000
you can find the full list of response codes here
        status_message string informational message of the task
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
        time string execution time, seconds
        cost float cost of the task, USD
        result_count integer number of elements in the result array
        path array URL path
        data object contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
        result array array of results
            keyword string keyword in a POST array
            location_code integer location code in a POST array
if there is no data, then the value is null
            language_code string language code in a POST array
if there is no data, then the value is null
            device string device type in a POST array
if there is no data, then the value is null
            period string time period
indicates if returned data is aggregated to a certain time period
default value monthly
            searches object contains results distributed by device type
if the device parameter is not specified, the data will be returned for all available device types
                desktop object device type = desktop
contains historical search volume data for searches made from desktop devices
                      year integer year
                      month integer month
                      day integer day of the month
                      search_volume integer search volume rate
                non_smartphones object device type = non-smartphones
contains historical search volume data for searches made from feature phones (non-smartphone mobile devices)
                      year integer year
                      month integer month
                      day integer day of the month
                      search_volume integer search volume rate
                mobile object device type = mobile
contains historical search volume data for searches made from mobile devices
                      year integer year
                      month integer month
                      day integer day of the month
                      search_volume integer search volume rate
                tablet object device type = tablet
contains historical search volume data for searches made from tablets
                      year integer year
                      month integer month
                      day integer day of the month
                      search_volume integer search volume rate

‌‌

Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access

# Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access 
login="login" 
password="password" 
cred="$(printf ${login}:${password} | base64)" 
curl --location --request POST "https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live" 
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}"  
--header "Content-Type: application/json" 
--data-raw "[
  {
    "location_code": 2840,
    "language_code": "en",
    "keywords": [
      "10 minute timer"
    ]
  }
]"
<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
$post_array = array();
// simple way to set a task
$post_array[] = array(
    "location_name" => "United States",
    "language_name" => "English",
    "keywords" => array(
        "average page rpm adsense",
        "adsense blank ads how long",
        "leads and prospects"
    )
);
try {
    // POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live
    // the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
    $result = $client->post('/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live', $post_array);
    print_r($result);
    // do something with post result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
    echo "n";
    print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
    print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
    print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
    print $e->getTraceAsString();
    echo "n";
}
$client = null;
?>
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': 'https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live',
  'headers': {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': '••••••'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify([
    {
      "location_code": 2840,
      "language_code": "en",
      "keywords": [
        "10 minute timer"
      ]
    }
  ])

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});
from client import RestClient
# You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/python/python_Client.zip
client = RestClient("login", "password")
post_data = dict()
# simple way to set a task
post_data[len(post_data)] = dict(
    location_name="United States",
    language_name="English",
    keywords=[
        "average page rpm adsense",
        "adsense blank ads how long",
        "leads and prospects"
    ]
)
# POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live
# the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
response = client.post("/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live", post_data)
# you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if response["status_code"] == 20000:
    print(response)
    # do something with result
else:
    print("error. Code: %d Message: %s" % (response["status_code"], response["status_message"]))
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace DataForSeoDemo
{
    public static partial class Demos
    {
        public static async Task keywords_data_search_volume_history_live()
        {
            var httpClient = new HttpClient
            {
                BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.dataforseo.com/"),
                // Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
                DefaultRequestHeaders = { Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic",
                    Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("login:password"))) }
            };
            var postData = new List<object>();
            postData.Add(new
            {
                location_name = "United States",
                language_name = "English",
                keywords = new[]
                {
                    "average page rpm adsense",
                    "adsense blank ads how long",
                    "leads and prospects"
                }
            });
            // POST /v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live
            // the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
            var taskPostResponse = await httpClient.PostAsync("/v3/keywords_data/bing/search_volume_history/live", new
                StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(postData)));
            var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(await taskPostResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
            // you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
            if (result.status_code == 20000)
            {
                // do something with result
                Console.WriteLine(result);
            }
            else
                Console.WriteLine($"error. Code: {result.status_code} Message: {result.status_message}");
        }
    }
}

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
  "version": "0.1.20240626",
  "status_code": 20000,
  "status_message": "Ok.",
  "time": "12.9494 sec.",
  "cost": 0.075,
  "tasks_count": 1,
  "tasks_error": 0,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "07091833-1535-0262-0000-8c3e7e69bcac",
      "status_code": 20000,
      "status_message": "Ok.",
      "time": "12.8860 sec.",
      "cost": 0.075,
      "result_count": 1,
      "path": [
        "v3",
        "keywords_data",
        "bing",
        "search_volume_history",
        "live"
      ],
      "data": {
        "api": "keywords_data",
        "function": "search_volume_history",
        "se": "bing",
        "location_code": 2840,
        "language_code": "en",
        "keywords": [
          "10 minute timer"
        ]
      },
      "result": [
        {
          "keyword": "10 minute timer",
          "location_code": 2840,
          "language_code": "en",
          "device": [
            "desktop",
            "non_smartphones",
            "mobile",
            "tablet"
          ],
          "period": "monthly",
          "searches": {
            "desktop": [
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 19137
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 30887
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 36423
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 51340
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 66649
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 74974
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 12,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 66793
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 11,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 75869
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 10,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 76204
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 58507
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 8,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 38496
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 29263
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 32979
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 36368
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 37556
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 43481
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 39389
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 42348
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 12,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 39122
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 11,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 40490
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 10,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 38987
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 38622
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 8,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 30143
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 23803
              }
            ],
            "non_smartphones": [
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 2
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 2
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 2
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 3
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 3
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1
              }
            ],
            "mobile": [
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1046
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1090
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 970
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1554
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1300
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1657
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 12,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1787
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 11,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1680
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 10,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1935
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1880
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 8,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1813
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1192
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1555
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1331
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1184
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1186
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 852
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1153
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 12,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1641
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 11,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1781
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 10,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 2883
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 2408
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 8,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1658
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 1332
              }
            ],
            "tablet": [
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 750
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 616
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 627
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 814
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 731
              },
              {
                "year": 2024,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 804
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 12,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 769
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 11,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 670
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 10,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 712
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 602
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 8,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 609
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 695
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 6,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 815
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 5,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 730
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 4,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 709
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 3,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 747
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 2,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 647
              },
              {
                "year": 2023,
                "month": 1,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 779
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 12,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 697
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 11,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 722
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 10,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 719
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 9,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 660
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 8,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 589
              },
              {
                "year": 2022,
                "month": 7,
                "day": 1,
                "search_volume": 684
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}