Discover some free tools, SEO crawler integrations, and scripts to leverage with Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights.
Google announced the launch of a new Google Search Console URL Inspection API one week ago. This change provides access to third-party applications for in bulk access to information only accessible for a single URL at a time through the Google Search Console interface of the URL Inspection tool.
With a quota per Search Console property (which can also be subdomains or subdirectories, as well as domains) of 2,000 queries per day and 600 queries per minute, the release opens doors to SEO tools and platforms to integrate Google’s index coverage information, such as:
Crawlability and indexability status
Last crawling time
Sitemaps inclusion
Google selected canonical URL
Identified structured data for rich results eligibility
Mobile usability status
All of which include other useful information that facilitates technical SEO analysis and debugging.
This opportunity has already started to be leveraged by a few SEO professionals who have already developed free new tools and shared scripts and established SEO crawlers integrating this data with their own insights. Here are a few:
Free tools
Free tools can be the best way to validate a specific group of URLs’ status quickly.
Pletzer has developed a free new tool called “Google Bulk Inspect URLs” that provides what’s likely the easiest way to obtain the URL Inspection API data. There’s no need to register or complex configuration. You need to authorize access to your Google account linked to Google Search Console, select the desired property to check, and paste the URLs you want to validate.