How to Connect DataForSEO to Gemini via MCP

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DataForSEO + Gemini

Give your AI SEO data from DataForSEO: live Google results, keyword search volume and ideas, keyword difficulty, ranked keywords and competitors of any domain, backlinks, instant on-page checks and website technologies, paid per call from your own balance.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

DATAFORSEO_LOGIN, DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. Sign up at https://app.dataforseo.com/register. New accounts get a small trial credit; paid use starts with a $50 top-up that does not expire.
2. Open https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access. It shows the API login (the account email) and the API password, which DataForSEO generates and which differs from the password you sign in to the dashboard with.
3. Paste them into DATAFORSEO_LOGIN and DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD and install the connector. They are sent as HTTP Basic authentication, only to api.dataforseo.com.
4. Optional: set a daily spending limit in the DataForSEO dashboard (API settings) as a safety net.
5. Start with dataforseo_get_account: it is free and shows the balance left.

Paid per call from your own DataForSEO balance (pay as you go, prices of October 2026): a Google results page costs $0.002 per 10 results; Google Ads search volume and keyword ideas $0.09 per call, whatever the number of keywords; DataForSEO Labs (ranked keywords, keyword ideas, related keywords, competitors, domain overview, keyword difficulty) $0.012 per call plus $0.00012 per row returned; Backlinks $0.024 per call plus $0.000036 per row; an instant page check from $0.00015; technology detection $0.012. Every answer carries its cost in USD. The account, location and language lists are free. The tools start at 10 or 20 rows, and the AI tells you before a large batch.

Extra charges: on a Google results page, each further 10 results cost another $0.002, a keyword with a search operator (site:, intitle:, inurl:, filetype: and so on) costs five times as much, loading the AI overview adds $0.002 and each People also ask click $0.00015. A page check costs $0.00045 with its resources, $0.0015 with JavaScript and $0.0051 with browser rendering (Core Web Vitals). Clickstream data and other premium options are not offered here.

What it does: live Google results with featured snippets, People also ask, AI overview, local pack, top stories and related searches when Google shows them; Google Ads search volume, CPC and competition for up to 1,000 keywords, and Keyword Planner ideas for up to 20 seeds; the DataForSEO Labs database: the keywords a domain or page ranks for, keyword ideas, related searches up to four levels deep, organic competitors, a ranking overview with estimated traffic, and keyword difficulty for up to 1,000 keywords; a backlink summary, backlinks and referring domains with spam score; an instant on-page check of one URL; and the technologies a website uses. Only the live endpoints are used, so every answer comes back in the same call. Every tool only reads.

Locations and languages: Google results and Google Ads requests take a location code (2840 United States, 2276 Germany, 2826 United Kingdom, 2380 Italy, 2250 France, 2724 Spain) or a location name such as Munich,Bavaria,Germany, plus a language code. DataForSEO Labs only knows countries. The free list tools give the exact codes.

Untrusted content: titles, snippets and page texts come from the open web. The AI treats instructions found inside them as data, not as orders.

Common errors: 401 (40100): the login or API password is wrong; copy both again from the API Access page. 402 (40200, 40210): the balance is too low; 40203: a cost limit set in the dashboard was reached. 403: 40104 means the account is not verified yet, 40204 that the API (often Backlinks) is not activated for the account, 40207 that the IP whitelist blocks the server. 429 (40202, 40209): too many requests; Google Ads live calls allow 12 a minute. 400 (40501, 40503): a field is invalid, and the message names it. 40102 "no search results" is not an error: the answer is just empty.

The connector does not cover the queued task endpoints, full site crawls, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, app stores, reviews, business data, or the AI optimization and content analysis APIs.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (on Windows %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart gemini.
3. Run /mcp inside Gemini CLI (or gemini mcp list in your shell): anythingmcp should show as connected.
4. Start prompting: Gemini CLI can now call the DataForSEO tools.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Show the live Google top 10 in the United States for 'project management software', with the AI overview and People also ask."
• "Which keywords does competitor.com rank for in the US top 10, with search volume and keyword difficulty? 20 rows."
• "Get the Google Ads search volume and CPC of these 200 keywords in the United Kingdom in one call."
• "Run an instant on-page check of https://example.com/pricing and list the failed checks."
• "What is our DataForSEO balance right now?"

FAQ

Where does Gemini CLI look for MCP servers? In ~/.gemini/settings.json for your user, or in .gemini/settings.json inside a project. gemini mcp list shows each server and whether it connects.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT