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Bypassing the Free Tier Limit

The “1 Search Per Day” limit on Answer the Public is an artificial constraint designed to push you into a subscription. It’s not a technical limit of the underlying data source (Google Autocomplete); it’s a business logic gate.

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The “Incognito” Workaround (And Why It Fails)

Users often try to bypass this by:
  • Using Incognito mode.
  • Clearing cookies.
  • Using a VPN.
This works for 3-4 searches, but eventually, browser fingerprinting catches up. It’s also manual, slow, and unscalable. You can’t build a business process on “toggling VPNs”.

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The Programmatic Solution

To bypass the limit reliably, you need to decouple your identity from the request. This is what our Apify Actor does:
  1. Residential Proxies: Every request is routed through a different IP address. To Google, 100 searches look like 100 different people, not one person spamming.
  2. Session Rotation: We spin up a fresh headless browser context for every job. No cookies, no local storage, no history.
  3. Distributed Architecture: The workload is split across multiple containers.

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Is This Allowed?

You are scraping publicly available data (Google Autocomplete). You are not logging into an account, and you are not accessing behind-a-login content.
  • Ethical Scraping: Our Actor respects robots.txt where applicable and implements polite delays to avoid overwhelming target servers.
  • Compliance: We handle the complexity of proxy management so you stay compliant with platform terms.

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The Result

By moving from the “Web Interface” to the “API Interface”, the concept of a “Daily Limit” disappears. Your only limit is your budget for compute time.