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Google Algorithm Tracker

Use cases

Correlating traffic changes with updates Staying current on Google changes Algorithm impact analysis Client reporting on algorithm history

BeautifulSoup scrapes Google's official Search Status Dashboard.

Keyword matching classifies into 9 types: Core, Spam, Helpful Content, Product Reviews, Link Spam, Page Experience, Site Reputation Abuse, Expired Domain Abuse, Scaled Content Abuse.

No API key required.

xlsxwriter Excel export.

Streamlit App

Platform

Browser-based (no installation required)

Input

No inputs required – scrapes directly from Google

Output

Table: dates, descriptions, type classifications. Metrics: total updates, core count, spam count, most recent. Bar chart: type distribution.

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Features

  • Official Google Search Status Dashboard source
  • 9 update type classifications via keyword matching
  • Date filtering: all time, 30/90 days, year, custom
  • Multi-select type filtering
  • Chrome User-Agent header
  • xlsxwriter Excel with type summary sheet

How to use

  1. 1 Click Fetch Algorithm Updates
  2. 2 Filter by date range (all time, 30/90 days, year, custom)
  3. 3 Multi-select update types to filter
  4. 4 Review update timeline table
  5. 5 Download CSV or two-sheet Excel (data + type summary)

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