Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
<?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/';
try {
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
} 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";
exit();
}
try {
$result = array();
// #1 - using this method you can get a list of completed tasks
// GET /v3/serp/bing/local_pack/tasks_ready
// in addition to 'bing' and 'local_pack' you can also set other search engine and type parameters
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
$tasks_ready = $client->get('/v3/serp/bing/local_pack/tasks_ready');
// you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if (isset($tasks_ready['status_code']) AND $tasks_ready['status_code'] === 20000) {
foreach ($tasks_ready['tasks'] as $task) {
if (isset($task['result'])) {
foreach ($task['result'] as $task_ready) {
// #2 - using this method you can get results of each completed task
// GET /v3/serp/bing/local_pack/task_get/html/$id
if (isset($task_ready['endpoint_html'])) {
$result[] = $client->get($task_ready['endpoint_html']);
}
// #3 - another way to get the task results by id
// GET /v3/serp/bing/local_pack/task_get/html/$id
/*
if (isset($task_ready['id'])) {
$result[] = $client->get('/v3/serp/bing/local_pack/task_get/html/' . $task_ready['id']);
}
*/
}
}
}
}
print_r($result);
// do something with 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": "0.1.20200129",
"status_code": 20000,
"status_message": "Ok.",
"time": "0.3212 sec.",
"cost": 0,
"tasks_count": 1,
"tasks_error": 0,
"tasks": [
{
"id": "11151505-0696-0066-0000-340aec686f0d",
"status_code": 20000,
"status_message": "Ok.",
"time": "0.0684 sec.",
"cost": 0.00,
"result_count": 1,
"path": [
"v3",
"serp",
"bing",
"local_pack",
"task_get",
"html",
"11151505-0696-0066-0000-340aec686f0d"
],
"data": {
"api": "serp",
"function": "task_get",
"se": "bing",
"se_type": "local_pack",
"language_name": "English",
"location_code": 2840,
"keyword": "flight ticket new york san francisco",
"tag": "tag1",
"device": "desktop",
"os": "windows"
},
"result": [
{
"keyword": "flight ticket new york san francisco",
"type": "local_pack",
"se_domain": "bing.com",
"location_code": 2840,
"language_code": "en",
"datetime": "2019-11-15 13:05:36 +0000",
"items_count": 1,
"items": [
{
"page": 1,
"date": "2019-11-15 13:05:36 +0000",
"html": "<!doctype html><html><head></head></body></html>"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
Description of the fields for sending a request:
| Field name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format you will be able to use it within 7 days to request the results of the task at any time |
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 |
keyword |
string | keyword received in a POST array keyword is returned with decoded %## (plus symbol ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character) |
type |
string | search engine type in a POST array |
se_domain |
string | search engine domain in a POST array |
location_code |
integer | location code in a POST array |
language_code |
string | language code in a POST array |
datetime |
string | date and time when the result was received in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00 |
items_count |
integer | the number of results returned in the items array |
items |
array | elements of search results found in SERP |
page |
integer | serial number of the returned HTML page |
date |
string | date and time when the HTML page was scanned in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00 |
html |
string | HTML page |

