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DataForSEO
Add DataForSEO to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
DataForSEO authenticates with HTTP Basic auth using a login and password pair, not a bearer token, and every endpoint under api.dataforseo.com/v3 accepts an array of task objects so a single POST can carry many lookups at once. Most APIs offer three modes: task_post followed by task_get, which is cheapest and asynchronous, live mode, which returns results in the same response at a higher cost, and a priority flag that changes queue position. Results are not returned by the task_post call; you either poll tasks_ready or supply a postback or pingback URL, and forgetting this is the usual cause of implementations that appear to hang. Costs are deducted per task and the response body always carries a cost field alongside status_code, so budget tracking has to read the payload rather than count calls. fastn stores each customer's login pair, routes callbacks and keeps the integration current as v3 endpoints change.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let a customer connect their own DataForSEO account so lookups are billed to their credit balance, not yours
Run scheduled SERP position checks for a customer's tracked keywords and store the ranked results
Pull backlink profiles for a domain a customer adds and surface new and lost links in your dashboard
Enrich a customer's keyword list with search volume and difficulty before they commit to a content plan
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
Let an agent submit a batch of keyword lookups in task mode and report results once the callback lands
Have an agent compare a customer's current SERP positions against the previous run and flag drops
Audit, per tenant, every lookup an agent submitted along with the cost field returned for each task
Example prompt
What did our tracked keywords cost in DataForSEO this month, and which ones fell out of the top ten?
Set up DataForSEO in 4 steps
- 01Enable the DataForSEO connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own DataForSEO account, so calls run under their credentials rather than a shared key.
- 03Decide which lookups, results and reports your product needs, map those fields, then enable the actions and triggers you want.
- 04Call it from your product and expose it to your agents through the same governed connection.
Why teams use the DataForSEO integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a DataForSEO integration without building it. Your customers connect their own DataForSEO account inside your product and work their lookups, results and reports there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: these are metered read sources, so an uncached lookup on every page view burns the customer's allowance. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a DataForSEO update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed DataForSEO connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you answer questions from an authoritative outside source without holding that data yourself without wiring it twice.
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SnowflakeDataForSEO integration FAQ
How do I add a DataForSEO integration to my product?
Enable the DataForSEO connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own DataForSEO account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no DataForSEO client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own DataForSEO account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own DataForSEO account and only ever sees their own lookups, results and reports. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this DataForSEO integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. Let an agent submit a batch of keyword lookups in task mode and report results once the callback lands
Who maintains the DataForSEO integration?
fastn does. When DataForSEO changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Whose credentials does a DataForSEO lookup run under?
Each customer's own. Quota and cost land on the customer that caused them rather than on a shared key you have to meter and re-bill, and one heavy customer cannot exhaust another's allowance.
How should DataForSEO results be cached?
Per tenant, with a window that matches how fast the underlying data actually moves. DataForSEO is a read source rather than a system of record, so the same query returns the same answer until the source changes, and caching is the difference between a sustainable integration and one that exhausts a customer's allowance on a busy page.
What can I build with the DataForSEO integration?
A common starting point: let a customer connect their own DataForSEO account so lookups are billed to their credit balance, not yours. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the DataForSEO integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding DataForSEO does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add DataForSEO to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.