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# What Is the Search Analytics API?

The Search Analytics API is the Search Console API resource for querying clicks, impressions, CTR, position, dates, and supported dimensions.

## Why it matters

It makes repeatable property and segment analysis possible without manually exporting each report.

## How to use it

Send a property, date range, dimensions, filters, aggregation type, row limit, and data state; then interpret results within documented limits.

## Limits and interpretation

The API is not a complete database export. It returns top rows and applies aggregation, privacy, and row limits. Hourly partial data and some dimensions depend on supported data states.

## Common mistakes

Adding page and query dimensions without understanding aggregation; calling row counts complete totals; mixing partial and finalized dates; ignoring permission errors.

## Questions people also ask

[How many Search Analytics rows are returned?](/faq/)[Why do API totals differ from UI tables?](/faq/)[What is hourly\_all data state?](/faq/)

## Where GSC Pulse fits

GSC Pulse uses this concept inside a decision workflow and links to the underlying evidence instead of presenting the term as a decorative metric.

[Primary documentation](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/searchanalytics/query)Source

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