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Indexing API Quickstart
The Indexing API allows site owners to directly notify Google when their job posting or livestreaming
video pages are added or removed. This allows Google to schedule pages for a fresh crawl, which
can lead to higher quality user traffic. The Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either
JobPosting or
BroadcastEvent embedded in a
VideoObject. For websites with many short-lived pages like job postings or
livestream videos, the Indexing API keeps content fresh in search results because it allows
updates to be pushed individually.
Here are some of the things you can do with the Indexing API:
Update a URL: Notify Google of a new URL to crawl or that content at a
previously-submitted URL has been updated.
Remove a URL: After you delete a page from your servers, notify Google so that we can
remove the page from our index and so that we don't attempt to crawl the URL again.
Get the status of a request: Check the last time Google received each kind of notification
for a given URL.
Send batch indexing requests: Reduce the number of HTTP connections your client has to
make by combining up to 100 calls into a single HTTP request.
Get started
To use the Indexing API, follow these steps:
Complete the prerequisites by enabling the
Indexing API, creating a new service account, verifying ownership in Search Console, and
getting an access token to authenticate your API call.
Request approval and quota. The
Indexing API provides a default 200 quota for API onboarding and submission testing, and it
requires additional approval for usage and resource provisioning.
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