dataforseo

dataforseo is a skill for Claude Code from alinaqi/maggy. It costs 30 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for researching Google search keywords and results through the DataForSEO service. It returns information such as search volume, competition, cost per click, and related keyword ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check keyword demand, find related terms, compare competition, and research search-result pages.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about what people search for with data that can support naming and search-engine decisions. Credentials are kept in environment variables rather than source code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to check keyword demand, find related terms, compare competition, and research search-result pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alinaqi/maggy/dataforseo
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alinaqi/maggy --skill dataforseo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alinaqi/maggy

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 815 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.00815
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00326
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 26d ago against content hash 4d626ecdd4b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dataforseo scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 26d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (dataforseo.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

DFS="$(cat ~/.claude/.bootstrap-dir)/skills/dataforseo/dataforseo.py"
skills/dataforseo/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DataForSEO Skill — keyword & SERP research

Purpose: Get real search demand (monthly volume, competition, CPC) and keyword ideas from Google Ads data via DataForSEO, so naming and content decisions are grounded in data rather than intuition.

Auth (never commit the key)

DataForSEO uses HTTP Basic auth. Provide credentials via environment only:

export DATAFORSEO_LOGIN="[email protected]"
export DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD="…"
# or a single combined value:
export DATAFORSEO_API_KEY="login:password"   # or its base64

The helper reads these from the env — it never hardcodes or logs the secret, and only ever calls api.dataforseo.com. Keep the key in a local .env that is git-ignored; do not paste it into the repo, a URL, or chat.

Usage

The helper is dataforseo.py in this skill folder:

DFS="$(cat ~/.claude/.bootstrap-dir)/skills/dataforseo/dataforseo.py"

python3 "$DFS" whoami                                  # auth check + balance
python3 "$DFS" volume "claude code" "coding agent"     # search volume table
python3 "$DFS" ideas  "coding agent"                   # related keyword ideas
# options: --location <code, default 2840=US>  --language <code, default en>

volume → each keyword's monthly search volume, competition (LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH), and CPC. ideas → the searched long-tail around a seed.

Reading the results (naming decisions)

  • Zero / n/a volume on every candidate is itself the answer: the names aren't search terms, so SEO can't rank them against each other — decide on clarity/brand and accept that discovery happens on GitHub/HN/X, not search.
  • Category term vs. brand term: a huge-volume category word (e.g. the tool's ecosystem name) is where demand lives; a brand name rides it only if it contains it. Weigh discoverability against being on-brand for what you built.
  • Wrong-intent volume is a trap: a candidate with existing volume may be drawing an audience searching for something else (a different industry meaning). That volume hurts, it doesn't help.
  • Competition + CPC proxy commercial intent, not just popularity — high CPC means advertisers pay for that term (buyers), low CPC often means informational or noise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 26d ago First seen · 78 lines · 30 tokens per session scan B 4d626ecdd4b4

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dataforseo is a skill published in the GitHub repository alinaqi/maggy (708 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-20.

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