Get Organic Competitors

Find the domains competing with a domain in Google organic and paid search according to DataForSEO Labs, with shared keyword counts, average position and each competitor’s traffic. Use dataforseo_get_keyword_gap for the exact keywords they share or miss.


App	DataForSEO
Operation ID	`dataforseo_get_organic_competitors`
Type	Action
Connection	`dataforseo` (required)
Credits per run	Free
Agent / MCP tool	Yes

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`target`	string	Yes	-	Domain to find competitors for, without scheme or www (e.g. example.com).
`location`	string or SelectableOption	No	`2840`	Country or location: a two-letter country code (us, gb, de…), a DataForSEO location code (2840 = United States), or a full location name such as ‘London,England,United Kingdom’. Defaults to the United States.
`language`	string or SelectableOption	No	`en`	Language code of the search results, e.g. en, de, es, fr, nl. Defaults to en.
`item_types`	string or array of string	No	-	SERP element types to compare on: organic, paid, featured_snippet, local_pack, ai_overview_reference. Defaults to organic and paid.
`max_rank_group`	integer	No	-	Only count keywords where the target ranks within this position (e.g. 10 for page one). Leave empty for the top 100.
`exclude_top_domains`	boolean	No	`False`	Leave out very large sites such as Wikipedia, Amazon and YouTube that rank for almost everything.
`filters`	array of FilterItem	No	-	Up to 8 filters on dotted result fields, e.g. intersections GREATER_THAN 50, full_domain_metrics.organic.etv GREATER_THAN 1000, domain CONTAINS ‘.co.uk’.
`orders`	array of OrderItem	No	-	Sort by up to 3 dotted result fields, e.g. keyword_info.search_volume DESC.
`limit`	integer	No	`100`	Maximum number of rows to return (1 to 1000). Defaults to 100. Each row is billed by DataForSEO, so keep this as small as the task needs.
`offset`	integer	No	-	Number of rows to skip, for paging.
`fields`	string or array of string	No	-	Dotted result fields to keep, e.g. domain, avg_position, sum_position, intersections, full_domain_metrics.organic.etv, full_domain_metrics.organic.count, metrics.organic.etv, metrics.organic.count, competitor_metrics.organic.etv, competitor_metrics.organic.count. Leave empty for the default set (see the output description).

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`field`	string or SelectableOption	Yes	-	The field to filter on, must be one of the current selected metrics or dimensions.
`operator`	string	Yes	-	The operator to use for filtering. Must be one of the supported values. Use REGEXP_MATCH to search/filter by multiple OR values like ’.(summer\|holiday).’
`value`	string	Yes	-	The value to filter by, always as a string: text, a number, or a regex. For IN_LIST and NOT_IN_LIST, pass the values as one comma-separated string such as ‘a,b,c’, not as an array. For regex values, escape backslashes once in the JSON string: write \b for a word boundary, not \b.

OrderItem

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`field`	string or SelectableOption	Yes	-	The field to sort by. must be one of the current selected metrics or dimensions.
`direction`	string	Yes	-	The order to sort by, must be one of ‘ASC’, ‘DESC’

SelectableOption

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`value`	string	Yes	-
`label`	string	Yes	-

Output

Type: List[Dict] Returns one row per competitor with dotted columns: domain, avg_position, sum_position, intersections, full_domain_metrics.organic.etv, full_domain_metrics.organic.count, metrics.organic.etv, metrics.organic.count (on shared keywords), competitor_metrics.organic.etv, competitor_metrics.organic.count, and the same under paid. Fields: domain, avg_position, intersections, full_domain_metrics.organic.etv, full_domain_metrics.organic.count, metrics.organic.etv Example:

[
  {
    "domain": "semrush.com",
    "avg_position": 14.2,
    "sum_position": 48213,
    "intersections": 3394,
    "full_domain_metrics.organic.etv": 3624906.0,
    "full_domain_metrics.organic.count": 93436,
    "metrics.organic.etv": 512300.2
  }
]

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