Content Search API
Search and analyze web content for any keyword — social shares, backlinks, word count, and content type. Content research from $0.03/call.
Find and analyze published content for any keyword or topic. Returns top-performing articles with engagement metrics, word counts, and content scores — perfect for content gap analysis and competitive benchmarking.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": [
{
"title": "The 10 Best SEO Tools in 2026",
"url": "https://blog.example.com/best-seo-tools",
"wordCount": 3200,
"shares": 1500,
"backlinks": 45,
"publishedDate": "2026-01-15",
"contentScore": 87
}
]
}Features
Pass a keyword and get back the articles ranking and performing for it, each with its title and url, so you see the real competing content rather than a keyword list.
Each result returns engagement signals like shares and backlinks, letting you rank content by how much traction it actually earned.
Results include wordCount and a contentScore, so you can benchmark the depth and quality bar competing pages set for a topic.
The publishedDate field shows content freshness, helping you spot stale topics ripe for an updated, more current piece.
The limit field (default 100) sets how many articles return; with $0.006 per 100 rows on top of the $0.04 call, a broad content scan stays cheap.
Use cases
Content Gap Analysis
Discover what content already exists for a keyword and identify angles, formats, or depth levels that are underserved.
Competitive Content Research
Analyze the top-performing articles in your niche to understand what topics, lengths, and formats drive the most engagement.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/seo/content/search', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"keyword": "best seo tools",
"limit": 100
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The content research API for developers — top-performing articles with shares, links & scores
The Content Search API finds the best-performing published content for any keyword and returns each article with its engagement metrics, word count, content score, and publish date. It is competitive content research as data — what is already winning a topic and why.
It is the content-discovery tool in YepAPI's suite. Pair it with the Content Parsing endpoint to deep-analyze the winners it surfaces, and the Page Intersection endpoint to find who links them — all under one key.
What is a content research API?
A content research API returns the top-performing articles for a keyword along with the signals that explain their success. For a term like "best seo tools" you get each piece's title, url, wordCount, shares, backlinks, publishedDate, and a contentScore. That lets you study the content already winning a topic — its length, engagement, and freshness — without manually combing search results and social platforms. YepAPI serves it at /v1/seo/content/search: post a keyword and a limit, and receive a ranked array of competing content with its performance metrics attached.
Build your own content research tool
Build a brief generator that, given a target keyword, pulls the top performers and summarizes the winning length, format, and engagement baseline a new piece must beat. Build a freshness scanner that flags topics where the leaders are old (by publishedDate), signaling an opening for an updated article. Use shares and backlinks to identify content worth emulating or worth replicating links from. Feed the surfaced URLs into the Content Parsing API to extract their structure and keyword density for a precise content brief.
Content research API pricing — $0.04 + $0.006 per 100 rows
Each search is $0.04 plus $0.006 per 100 articles returned, so a default 100-result content scan costs about five cents. Content-research platforms typically charge $199/mo subscriptions plus per-call fees for the same shares-and-engagement data; here you meter it per request and can research every topic on your calendar for pennies, with no monthly commitment.
Reverse-engineer winning content
Pull the top performers for a keyword and study the pattern: if the leaders average 3,200 words, earn dozens of backlinks, and were published this year, you know the bar to clear. Sort by shares to find the formats that travel and by backlinks to find the pieces worth out-linking. The contentScore gives a single quality proxy to rank candidates. Combined across several keywords, this reveals the content archetypes that consistently win in your niche — a data-backed playbook, not guesswork.
Try the content research API free
Get $5 of free credit with no card to start — enough for dozens of content scans. Search a topic you know well, confirm the engagement and contentScore fields rank the real winners sensibly, and wire the results into your briefing workflow before you spend anything.
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What developers say
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Frequently asked questions
Find and analyze published content for any keyword or topic. Returns top-performing articles with engagement metrics, word counts, and content scores — perfect for content gap analysis and competitive benchmarking.
Each API call costs $0.04 (+$0.006 per 100 rows). No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.
Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/seo/content/search. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
YepAPI bundles SEO, AI, and web scraping APIs under one key with no monthly minimums. You get lower per-call pricing, a unified dashboard, and one billing account instead of managing multiple providers.
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