Author: Eric Heiken

One of the quickest ways to understanding a website is to take a glimpse at the XML sitemap(s). As a user, you can usually pretty quickly find the XML sitemap or sitemap index by visiting /robots.txt. Most robots.txt files will include the URL or multiple URLs to a website’s sitemap(s). We’ll explore a couple of […]

One of the biggest advantages of using the Google Search Console API instead of the web interface is that you can pull a lot more rows at once when looking at your performance reporting. If you’re used to using the Search Console UI, you’re used to seeing up to 1000 rows of data at a […]

Now that you know how to make requests to the Google Search Console API using Python, you’re probably well on your way to automating a lot of tasks and analyzing a lot of SEO data at scale! If you’re anything like me, you’ve been copying and pasting the same codes from the API Connection and […]

Now that you have an authentication to use the Google Search Console API, we can dig into some of the report requests you can run. We’ll be covering the four supported reports from Google Search Console documentation and how to handle the data you get back. Requirements A Google Search Console API connection. I’ll be […]

Provided you have created your Google API Credentials, you can start to programmatically pull data from Google Search Console. In this article, I’m going to walk you through authorizing your script to prepare us for pulling reports. Requirements Before We Start Coding Before we get into the script, let’s do a little housekeeping. At the […]

If you’re interested in beginning your journey into Python SEO, one of the first projects you might be considering will be programmatically pulling data from Google Search Console or Google Analytics. You might also be looking for a way to push data into Google Sheets. You’ll quickly learn that in order to do all of […]