Competitors in paid search results

The SerpstatKeywordProcedure.getAdsCompetitors method performs list of competitors in PPC for the given keyword. The data set is similar to the Competitors report in PPC research of the keywords.

General request parameters and instructions for using Serpstat API

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Request parameters
Parameter	Description	Type	Optional	Default value	Value Options
id	A request id: the response contains the same id. Enter any number (number) or text (string) value	int/string	no		1, test
method	API method name	string	no		SerpstatKeywordProcedure.getAdsCompetitors
params	The object with parameters {...}, it lists all the following parameters and arrays [...]	array	no
query	Keyword by which competitors will be searched	string	no		iphone
se	Search engine ID.	string	no		g_us
page	Page number in response	int	yes	1	"page": "5"
size	Number of results per page in response	int	yes	100	"size": "100" min: 100, max: 1000
sort	Sort order of the results in the format: {{{field}}: {{order}}} field - field to sort by: * ads * all * common order - sort direction (asc - ascending, desc - descending)	json object	yes		{"common": "desc"}

Response parameters
Parameter	Description
id	Response id corresponds the request id
result	Contains the answer
data	Array with data
domain	Competitor's domain
ads	Number of ads for a domain
all	Number of keywords for a domain in PPC
common	Common keywords in PPC
summary_info	Object with data
page	Page number
left_lines	API credits remaining

Credits: the number of charged credits corresponds to the number of results obtained upon request. Part of the API response, for which 1 credit is charged:

{
    "domain": "verizon.com",
    "ads": 8953,
    "all": 30855,
    "common": 1437
},

Example

Request data:

{
 "id": "1",
 "method": "SerpstatKeywordProcedure.getAdsCompetitors",
 "params": {
   "query": "iphone",
   "se": "g_us",
   "page": "1",
   "size": "100",
     "sort": {
            "common": "desc"
        }
    }
}

Response data:

{
    "id": "1",
    "result": {
        "data": [
            {
                "domain": "verizon.com",
                "ads": 8953,
                "all": 30855,
                "common": 1437
            },
            {
                "domain": "apple.com",
                "ads": 4018,
                "all": 6164,
                "common": 488
            },
            {
                "domain": "t-mobile.com",
                "ads": 2623,
                "all": 3916,
                "common": 452
            }
        ],
        "summary_info": {
            "page": 1,
            "left_lines": 997925
        }
    }
}