Web Scraping for SEO: Rank Tracking, Backlinks, and SERP Analysis

SEO professionals spend hours manually checking rankings. Web scraping automates rank tracking, backlink analysis, and competitive intelligence. SERP Scraping import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.parse import urlparse class SERPScraper : def __init__ ( self ): self . session = requests . Session () self . session . headers . update ({ ' User-Agent ' : ' Mozilla/5.0 ' }) def search ( self , query , num = 10 ): resp = self . session . get ( ' https://api.scraperapi.com ' , params = { ' api_key ' : ' YOUR_KEY ' , ' url ' : f ' https://www.google.com/search?q= { query } &num= { num } ' , ' render ' : ' true ' }) soup = BeautifulSoup ( resp . text , ' html.parser ' ) results = [] for i , div in enumerate ( soup . select ( ' div.g ' ), 1 ): link = div . select_one ( ' a ' ) title = div . select_one ( ' h3 ' ) if link and title : results . append ({ ' position ' : i , ' title ' : title . get_text ( strip = True ), ' url ' : link . get ( ' href ' , '' ), ' domain ' : urlpa