Baidu Autocomplete
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Baidu Autocomplete
Baidu search-box suggestions for a partial term — the cheapest call in the Baidu API at 1 credit.
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Baidu Autocomplete
Baidu’s search-box suggestions for a partial term — what the dropdown on
baidu.com would show as you type. At 1 credit this is the cheapest call in
the Baidu API and the fastest way to turn a seed term into real Chinese queries
people actually search.
Credits: 1
Authorization
string
required
Your ScrapeBadger API key.
Query Parameters
string
required
Partial search term, e.g.
咖啡 or coff. URL-encode as UTF-8.Response
string
Echo of the partial term.
Suggestion[]
Baidu’s suggestions, in Baidu’s own order (most likely first).
Example
Response
Keyword expansion
Autocomplete is the cheap half of a two-step keyword workflow:- Call
/autocompleteon the seed term (1 credit) to get Baidu’s real query variants. - Call
/searchon each variant (5 credits) and merge results onurl.
related_searches block on every /search
response feeds the same loop for free.
Latin input works —
coff returns suggestions — but Baidu’s suggestion index
is overwhelmingly Chinese, so Chinese seeds return far more.
