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Setting OnPage Tasks


OnPage API checks websites for 60+ customizable on-page parameters defines and displays all found flaws and opportunities for optimization so that you can easily fix them. It checks meta tags, duplicate content, image tags, response codes, and other parameters on every page. You can find the full list of OnPage API check-up parameters in the Pages section.

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

<?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-dashboard
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');

$post_array = array();
// example #1 - a simple way to set a task
$post_array[] = array(
   "target" => "dataforseo.com",
   "max_crawl_pages" => 10
);
// example #2 - a way to set a task with additional parameters
$post_array[] = array(
   "target" => "dataforseo.com",
   "max_crawl_pages" => 10,
   "load_resources" => true,
   "enable_javascript" => true,
   "custom_js" => "meta = {}; meta.url = document.URL; meta;",
   "tag" => "some_string_123",
   "pingback_url" => 'https://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag'
);

// this example has a 2 elements, but in the case of large number of tasks - send up to 100 elements per POST request
if (count($post_array) > 0) {
   try {
      // POST /v3/on_page/task_post
      // the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
      $result = $client->post('/v3/on_page/task_post', $post_array);
      print_r($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;
?>

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
  "version": "0.1.20200805",
  "status_code": 20000,
  "status_message": "Ok.",
  "time": "0.0815 sec.",
  "cost": 0.00125,
  "tasks_count": 1,
  "tasks_error": 0,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "08071719-1535-0216-0000-3aabdf68a6ef",
      "status_code": 20100,
      "status_message": "Task Created.",
      "time": "0.0044 sec.",
      "cost": 0.00125,
      "result_count": 0,
      "path": [
        "v3",
        "on_page",
        "task_post"
      ],
      "data": {
        "api": "on_page",
        "function": "task_post",
        "target": "dataforseo.com",
        "max_crawl_pages": 10
      },
      "result": null
    }
  ]
}

All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). 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, with each POST call containing no more than 100 tasks. If your POST call contains over 100 tasks, the tasks over this limit will return the 40006 error.
The maximum number of simultaneous requests you can send is limited to 30.

Visit DataForSEO Help Center to get practical tips for request handling depending on your OnPage API payload volume.

Description of the fields for setting a task:

Field name Type Description
target string target domain
required field
domain name should be specified without https:// and www.
if you specify the page URL, the results will be returned for the domain included in the URL
max_crawl_pages integer crawled pages limit
required field
the number of pages to crawl on the specified domain
Note:
if you set max_crawl_pages to 1 and do not specify start_url or set a homepage in it, the following sitewide checks will be disabled:
test_canonicalization, enable_www_redirect_check, test_hidden_server_signature, test_page_not_found, test_directory_browsing, test_https_redirect
to enable them anyway, set force_sitewide_checks to trueif you set max_crawl_pages to 1 and specify start_url other than a homepage, all sitewide checks will be disabled;
to enable them anyway, set force_sitewide_checks to true
start_url string the first url to crawl
optional field
Note: you should specify an absolute URL
if you want to crawl a single page, specify its URL in this field and additionally set the max_crawl_pages parameter to 1
you can also use the live Instant Pages endpoint to get page-specific data
force_sitewide_checks boolean enable sitewide checks when crawling a single page
optional field
set to true to get data on sitewide checks when crawling a single page;
default value: false
priority_urls array urls to be crawled bypassing the queue
optional field
URLs specified in this array will be crawled in the first instance, bypassing the crawling queue;
Note: you should specify the absolute URL;
you can specify up to 20 URLs;
all URLs in the array must belong to the target domain;
subdomains will be ignored unless the allow_subdomains parameter is set to trueexample:
"priority_urls": [
"https://dataforseo.com/apis/serp-api",
"https://dataforseo.com/contact"
]
max_crawl_depth integer crawl depth
optional field
the linking depth of the pages to crawl;
for example, starting page of the crawl is level 0, pages that have links from that page are level 1, etc.
crawl_delay integer delay between hits, ms
optional field
the custom delay between crawler hits to the server
default value: 2000
store_raw_html boolean store HTML of crawled pages
optional field
set to true if you want to get the HTML of the page using the OnPage Raw HTML endpoint
default value: false
enable_content_parsing boolean parse content on crawled pages
optional field
set to true to use the OnPage Content Parsing endpoint
default value: false
support_cookies boolean support cookies on crawled pages
optional field
set to true to support cookies when crawling the pages
default value: false
accept_language string language header for accessing the website
optional field
all locale formats are supported (xx, xx-XX, xxx-XX, etc.)
Note: if you do not specify this parameter, some websites may deny access; in this case, pages will be returned with the "type":"broken in the response array
custom_robots_txt string custom robots.txt settings
optional field
example: Disallow: /directory1/
robots_txt_merge_mode string merge with or override robots.txt settings
optional field
possible values: merge, override;
set to override if you want to ignore website crawling restrictions and other robots.txt settings
default value: merge;
Note: if set to override, specify the custom_robots_txt parameter
custom_user_agent string custom user agent
optional field
custom user agent for crawling a website
example: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

default value: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RSiteAuditor)
browser_preset string preset for browser screen parameters
optional field
if you use this field, you don’t need to indicate browser_screen_width, browser_screen_height, browser_screen_scale_factorpossible values:
desktop, mobile, tabletdesktop preset will apply the following values:browser_screen_width: 1920
browser_screen_height: 1080
browser_screen_scale_factor: 1mobile preset will apply the following values:browser_screen_width: 390
browser_screen_height: 844
browser_screen_scale_factor: 3tablet preset will apply the following values:browser_screen_width: 1024
browser_screen_height: 1366
browser_screen_scale_factor: 2
Note: to use this parameter, set enable_javascript or enable_browser_rendering to true
browser_screen_width integer browser screen width
optional field
you can set a custom browser screen width to perform audit for a particular device;
if you use this field, you don’t need to indicate browser_preset as it will be ignored;
Note: to use this parameter, set enable_javascript or enable_browser_rendering to trueminimum value, in pixels: 240
maximum value, in pixels: 9999
browser_screen_height integer browser screen height
optional field
you can set a custom browser screen height to perform an audit for a particular device;
if you use this field, you don’t need to indicate browser_preset as it will be ignored;
Note: to use this parameter, set enable_javascript or enable_browser_rendering to trueminimum value, in pixels: 240
maximum value, in pixels: 9999
browser_screen_scale_factor float browser screen scale factor
optional field
you can set a custom browser screen resolution ratio to perform audit for a particular device;
if you use this field, you don’t need to indicate browser_preset as it will be ignored;
Note: to use this parameter, set enable_javascript or enable_browser_rendering to trueminimum value: 0.5
maximum value: 3
respect_sitemap boolean respect sitemap when crawling
optional field
set to true if you want to follow the order of pages indicated in the primary sitemap when crawling;
default value: false
Note: if set to true, the click_depth value in the API response will equal 0;
the max_crawl_depth field of the request will be ignored, you can specify the number of pages to crawl using the max_crawl_pages parameter
custom_sitemap string custom sitemap url
optional field
the URL of the page where the alternative sitemap is located
Note: if you want to use this parameter, respect_sitemap should be true
crawl_sitemap_only boolean crawl only pages indicated in the sitemap
optional field
set to true if you want to crawl only the pages indicated in the sitemap
if you set this parameter to true and do not specify custom_sitemap, we will crawl the default sitemap
default value: false
Note: if you want to use this parameter, respect_sitemap should be true
load_resources boolean load resources
optional field
set to true if you want to load image, stylesheets, scripts, and broken resources
default value: false
Note: if you use this parameter, additional charges will apply; learn more about the cost of tasks with this parameter in our help article; the cost can be calculated on the Pricing Page
enable_www_redirect_check boolean check if the domain implemented the www redirection
optional field
set to true if you want to check if the requested domain implemented the www to non-www redirect;
default value: false
enable_javascript boolean load javascript on a page
optional field
set to true if you want to load the scripts available on a page
default value: false
Note: if you use this parameter, additional charges will apply; learn more about the cost of tasks with this parameter in our help article; the cost can be calculated on the Pricing Page
enable_xhr boolean enable XMLHttpRequest on a page
optional field
set to true if you want our crawler to request data from a web server using the XMLHttpRequest object
default value: false;if you use this field, enable_javascript must be set to true;
enable_browser_rendering boolean emulate browser rendering to measure Core Web Vitals
optional field
by using this parameter you will be able to emulate a browser when loading a web page;
enable_browser_rendering loads styles, images, fonts, animations, videos, and other resources on a page;
default value: false
set to true to obtain Core Web Vitals (FID, CLS, LCP) metrics in the response;
if you use this field, enable_javascript, and load_resources parameters must be set to true
Note: if you use this parameter, additional charges will apply; learn more about the cost of tasks with this parameter in our help article; the cost can be calculated on the Pricing Page
disable_cookie_popup boolean disable the cookie popup
optional field
set to true if you want to disable the popup requesting cookie consent from the user;
default value:
false
custom_js string custom javascript
optional field
Note that the execution time for the script you enter here should be 700 ms maximum, for example, you can use the following JS snippet to check if the website contains Google Tag Manager as a scr attribute:
let meta = { haveGoogleAnalytics: false, haveTagManager: false };\r\nfor (var i = 0; i < document.scripts.length; i++) {\r\n let src = document.scripts[i].getAttribute(\"src\");\r\n if (src != undefined) {\r\n if (src.indexOf(\"analytics.js\") >= 0)\r\n meta.haveGoogleAnalytics = true;\r\n\tif (src.indexOf(\"gtm.js\") >= 0)\r\n meta.haveTagManager = true;\r\n }\r\n}\r\nmeta;the returned value depends on what you specified in this field. For instance, if you specify the following script:
meta = {}; meta.url = document.URL; meta.test = 'test'; meta;
as a response you will receive the following data:
"custom_js_response": {
"url": "https://dataforseo.com/",
"test": "test"
}

Note: if you use this parameter, additional charges will apply; learn more about the cost of tasks with this parameter in our help article; the cost can be calculated on the Pricing Page
validate_micromarkup boolean enable microdata validation
optional field
set to true if you want to use the OnPage API Microdata endpoint
default value: false
allow_subdomains boolean include pages on subdomains
optional field
set to true if you want to crawl all subdomains of a target website
default value: false
allowed_subdomains array subdomains to crawl
optional field
specify subdomains that you want to crawl
example: ["blog.site.com", "my.site.com", "shop.site.com"]
Note: to use this parameter, the allow_subdomains parameter should be set to false;
otherwise, the content of allowed_subdomains field will be ignored and the results will be returned for all subdomains
disallowed_subdomains array subdomains not to crawl
optional field
specify subdomains that you don’t want to crawl
example: ["status.site.com", "docs.site.com"]
Note: to use this parameter, the allow_subdomains parameter should be set to true
check_spell boolean check spelling
optional field
set to true to check spelling on a website using Hunspell library
default value: false
check_spell_language string language of the spell check
optional field
supported languages: ‘hy’, ‘eu’, ‘bg’, ‘ca’, ‘hr’, ‘cs’, ‘da’, ‘nl’, ‘en’, ‘eo’, ‘et’, ‘fo’, ‘fa’, ‘fr’, ‘fy’, ‘gl’, ‘ka’, ‘de’, ‘el’, ‘he’, ‘hu’, ‘is’, ‘ia’, ‘ga’, ‘it’, ‘rw’, ‘la’, ‘lv’, ‘lt’, ‘mk’, ‘mn’, ‘ne’, ‘nb’, ‘nn’, ‘pl’, ‘pt’, ‘ro’, ‘gd’, ‘sr’, ‘sk’, ‘sl’, ‘es’, ‘sv’, ‘tr’, ‘tk’, ‘uk’, ‘vi’
Note: if no language is specified, it will be set automatically based on page content
check_spell_exceptions array words excluded from spell check
optional field
specify the words that you want to exclude from spell check
maximum word length: 100 characters
maximum amount of words: 1000
example: "SERP", "minifiers", "JavaScript"
calculate_keyword_density boolean calculate keyword density for the target domain
optional field
set to true if you want to calculate keyword density for website pages
default value: false
Note: if you use this parameter, additional charges will apply; learn more about the cost of tasks with this parameter in our help article
once the crawl is completed, you can obtain keyword density values with the Keyword Density endpoint
checks_threshold object custom threshold values for checks
optional field
you can specify custom threshold values for the parameters included in the checks object of OnPage API responses;
Note: only integer threshold values can be modified;
for example, the high_loading_time and large_page_size parameters are set to 3 seconds and 1 megabyte respectively by default;
if you want to change these thresholds to 1 second and 1000 kbytes, use the following snippet:
"checks_threshold": {
"high_loading_time": 1,
"large_page_size": 1000
}
available customizable parameters with default values:
"title_too_short", default value: 30, type: "int"
"title_too_long", default value: 65, type: "int"
"small_page_size", default value: 1024, type: "int"
"large_page_size", default value: 1048576 (1024 * 1024), type: "int"
"low_character_count", default value: 1024, type: "int"
"high_character_count", default value: 256000 (250 * 1024), type: "int"
"low_content_rate", default value: 0.1, type: "float"
"high_content_rate", default value: 0.9, type: "float"
"high_loading_time", default value: 3000, type: "int"
"high_waiting_time", default value: 1500, type: "int"
"low_readability_rate", default value: 15.0, type: "float"
"irrelevant_description", default value: 0.2, type: "float"
"irrelevant_title", default value: 0.3, type: "float"
"irrelevant_meta_keywords", default value: 0.6, type: "float"
disable_sitewide_checks array prevent certain sitewide checks from running
optional field
specify the following checks to prevent them from running on the target website:
"test_page_not_found"
"test_canonicalization"
"test_https_redirect"
"test_directory_browsing"example:
"disable_sitewide_checks": ["test_directory_browsing", "test_page_not_found"]learn more on our help center
disable_page_checks array prevent certain page checks from running
optional field
specify certain checks to prevent them from running and impacting the onpage_scoreexample:
"disable_page_checks": ["is_5xx_code", "is_4xx_code"]
switch_pool boolean switch proxy pool
optional field
if true, additional proxy pools will be used to obtain the requested data;
the parameter can be used if a multitude of tasks is set simultaneously, resulting in occasional rate-limit and/or site_unreachable errors
return_despite_timeout boolean return data on pages despite the timeout error
optional field
if true, the data will be provided on pages that failed to load within 120 seconds and responded with a timeout error;
default value: false
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
pingback_url string notification URL of a completed task
optional field
when a task is completed we will notify you by GET request sent to the URL you have specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.
example:
http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id
http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag
Note: special symbols in pingback_url will be urlencoded;
i.a., the # symbol will be encoded into %23

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 the 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
in this case, the value will be null

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