Get a domain's historical ranking overview · SEO API
Return a monthly time series of a domain's organic and paid ranking distribution and estimated traffic since 2019, for trend and seasonality analysis.
Using ChatGPT, Claude Code or another client? See the setup steps
curl -X POST https://api.unifapi.com/seo/competitors/historical-rank-overview \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json"
Parameters
- The parameter for this SEO operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- The parameter for this SEO operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the SEO API in the seo category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs SEO public data but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract across social, live public-data sources.
Common agent workflows
- Fetch canonical public SEO content for summarization, ranking, monitoring, or enrichment.
- Attach engagement, author, media, and source metadata to an agent workflow.
- Give an AI agent a stable SEO data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize SEO responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The operation has a 500 credits ($0.50) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 500 credits ($0.50) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Get a domain's historical ranking overview call returns one data object with these fields.
- targetstring
- Target domain echoed from the request.
- locationstring
- languagestring
- viewstring
- resultsobject[]
- Monthly ranking distribution and traffic for the target over time. Each month is one billable record.
Agents & Skills built on SEO
You rarely call Get a domain's historical ranking overview by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read SEO data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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