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Are you poor and don’t have money to buy an enterprise rank tracker? Well, today is your lucky day. With this Python script, you can automate the Google rank checker with a shell script and crontab in a few simple steps. I will explain how to implement this and leave it running daily. One thing to note, currently, the script does not use proxies to check for the keyword rankings, so if you are looking to run big sets of keywords, Google will notice this and will start showing a captcha.
Update: I have updated the script by adding the possibility of choosing what device you want to make the rank check. The two options are Mobile and Desktop. I will still leave the old script here but will change the name to rank_legacy.py.
Update2: Included a keyword.xls file that will run all your keywords from there. There is no need to add each of those on the .sh
file anymore. I also added a random sleep between queries so that Google won't catch us. The script now is more simple and easy to use.
Installation of Python robobrowser
pip install robobrowser
After all, dependencies are installed, we can start testing if the script works fine.
Before running any test, we want to go into the keywords.xls
file and add the keywords to check the ranks. We can add as many as we wish to, but the more keywords, the higher the chances Google will block you. (I will soon include the option of using proxies.)
After that, we open the terminal, go to the folder where rank.py
is saved, and give the script executing rights.
chmod +x rank.py
Now we can call our script followed by two arguments: the website we are looking for and the device we want to check on which can be mobile or desktop.
python3 rank.py [website] [device]
We want to check the website https://www.uselessthingstobuy.com/ on mobile against the keyword nothing package we need to include the keyword on the keywords.xls file and run:
python3 rank.py https://www.uselessthingstobuy.com/ mobile
This will output the keyword, the ranking of the keyword, the URL that is ranking on Google, the device you chose, and the date we did this rank check.
Make sure that the device is lowercase. If you misspell the device or add capital, the script will run using mobile device as default
nothing+package 1 https://www.uselessthingstobuy.com/product/give-nothing-for-the-person-who-has-everything/ mobile 01-07-2020
This will also generate a CSV file in the folder where rank.py
is located. This will include all the information the terminal is showing.
For example:
Keyword | Rank | URL | Device | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
nothing+package | 1 | https://www.uselessthingstobuy.com/product/give-nothing-for-the-person-who-has-everything/ | mobile | 01-07-2020 |
Now that we tested that rank.py
works fine, we will create a shell script to run our Python script.
We create a new .sh
file and add the terminal commands we ran before. Since we are running everything out of a keyword.xls file to make everything easier, we can call the script with the URL we want and the device we want to check in our rank.sh
file.
So forget about adding multiple lines and sleep times. I included the sleep times on the script, and they do random numbers between 1,10 so that Google won't catch us. So the only thing we need to have is the following:
#! /bin/bash
/usr/bin/python3 /path_to_my_script/rank.py [website] [device]
After we create the shell script, we would need to make the script executable
chmod +x rank.sh
and then test the shell script. We go to the console and run it using
./rank.sh
This will output five CSV files, and the output file name is composed of the date + [keyword]
+ [device]
Now that we have our .sh
file running fine, we will set up a cronjob that will run every day at 5:00 pm
In the terminal, we type:
crontab -e
Then we will press the letter i
to start editing, and we will add the following:
0 17 * * * path_to_my_script/rank.sh
After adding this, we press ESC and add :wq
to save.
If you want to contribute or fix anything, please do so.
If you have any questions or need help setting this up, please open an issue, and will try to help.
If you have a werkzeug Error Read this As of February 2020, werkzug
upgraded to 1.0.0 and RoboBrowser lazy developers haven't fixed it. To fix this, you need to go to your Robobrowser folder on your computer, something like (/Users/yourusername/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/robobrowser/) and open browser.py
and add change from werkzeug import cached_property
to from werkzeug.utils import cached_property
Please take a look at this URL for more info: Link to issue