GSC's web UI is fine for occasional spelunking and slow for daily ops. Here's a 150-line Node script that pulls everything I check every morning into the terminal in 4 seconds.
GSC's web UI is fine for occasional spelunking. It's slow for daily ops. Three pages of clicks to get to the same five queries I run every morning. The export is CSV. The date range picker is finicky.
So I built a Node script. About 150 lines. Three flags. Pulls everything I look at daily into the terminal in four seconds.
Here's what it does, what it doesn't do, and what I learned about the GSC API along the way.
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