This project uses the Google Ads API to generate keyword ideas through the keyword adplanner feature. By defining a seed keywords you will retrieve related keywords. Every associated (related) keyword will come with monthly search volume, average search volume, high- and low bid cpc, concept_group, brand bool and competition index. Generated data will be stored in the data folder in the corresponding csv file called keyword_ideas.csv. With a further selection you can upload the data automatically into a new table of your hosted Postgres (Se how to define the .env file further below)
For using this repository you need first having an active Google Ads account and at least a test api token in Google Ads. Authentication can be troublesome due the fact you need to register an App on GCP and apply for an Google Ads API key, therefore I am creating currently a blog article that takes you step by step through the process (https://medium.com/kuwala-io/navigating-the-google-ads-api-authorization-maze-step-by-step-guide-for-authentication-402313d1bd0d). Once you have your credentials, you can add credentials into the google-ads.yaml and the customer_id in the generate_keywords.py, and run the project.
More Information with Step-by-Step Guide and Example Projects can be found here
| Description | Link |
|---|---|
| How to get google ads authorization | Step-by-Step Guide for Authentication |
| Perform an example query | coming soon... |
| A Prototype dashboard based on this repo | Trendtool |
- Python 3.6 or higher
- Git
- Clone the Repository
git clone https://github.com/floriankuwala/keyword-generator.git
cd googlesearch2postgres- Setup your virtual environment variable
python -m venv my_project_env
- Activate your virtual environment
- For MacOS
source my_project_env/bin/activate
- For Windows
.\my_project_env\Scripts\activate
- Install Requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
- **Set Up Environment Variables **
Configure your google-ads.yaml with the following information:
developer_token: "your developer token"
client_id: "your client id"
client_secret: "your client secret"
refresh_token: "your refresh token"
use_proto_plus: TrueAND Adjust your customer_id in the generate_keyword_ideas.py
OPTIONAL Add your credentials for a hosted PostGres in your .env file as following:
DB_TYPE=postgresql
DB_USER=your username
DB_PASSWORD=your password
DB_HOST=your hostadress
DB_PORT=5432python main.py
The terminal will give you multiple options which you can start seperately. a) generating keyword ideas through google ads api (ads api credentials need to be acquired) b) creating a table and upload the generated data to a hosted postgres
keyword-generator/
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├── my_project_env/ # Virtual environment folder, e.g. setting env variables for database connection
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├── src/ # Source code folder
│ └── generate_keyword_ideas.py
│ └── config.py
│ └── db_operations.py
│ └── models.py
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├── resources/ # Resources like configuration files
│ └── google-ads.yaml # google ads token and api configuration, Please put in here your credentials
│ └── geotargets.csv # list of geotargets and theire corresponding number
│ └── languagecodes.csv # language codes to be set
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├── data/ # Folder to store input/output data, if needed
│ └── seed_keywords.txt # seed keywords for google ads api (one per line) example: 'Apache 207'
│ └── keyword_ideas.csv # Output when you run the main.py successfully
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├── logs/ # Log files for errors and other information
│ └── app.log (coming soon)
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├── tests/ # Test cases
│ └── test_data.py (coming soon)
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├── .gitignore # Git ignore file to exclude unnecessary files/folders from version control
├── requirements.txt # List of dependencies
├── README.md # Project description and setup instructions
└── main.py # Main script to run