can i avoid wordstream? because it's paid

Yes.

There are three keyword data sources; Wordtracker, Wordstream and Google keyword tool. You can use any combination of them or leave any of them out.

Note though that there is a free trial Wordstream account that gives you 200 api calls a month. That is enough for many sites.

how do you word round the need for Wordstream, is part of Wizard?

Now wordstream is no longer offering free service how are people getting this setup?

thanks

I agree...how? Would really like to use this module.

+1 Can't seem to skip the Wordstream step during the setup process.

Reopening, wordstream is currently required to complete the setup process so this dependency needs to be removed. As of February 2013 all current users who registered for the API will be dropped from their free service as well.

Note: I downloaded version 7.x-1.0-rc1 of Wordstream.

I've just followed all instructions on installing SEOTools, along with installing all modules as requested and got stuck on the setup page.

After some digging, I found this function (in seotools.setup.inc):

// validate WordStream account
	if (!isset($values['wordstream_set'])) {
	  $wordstream = wordstream_include_api_class($values['wordstream_username'], $values['wordstream_password']);
	  $account = 1;
	  if ($wordstream) {
	    $ret = $wordstream->getAPICredits();
	    if ($ret->credits_per_month) {
	    	$account = 0;
	    }  
	  }
	  if (!$account) {
	    form_set_error('wordstream_username', t('Unable to log in to WordStream. Please enter a valid WordStream API username and password.'));
	  }
	}

which gets called when submitting the setup form. If you see, there is a check performed to check for a valid Wordstream account with the variable $account=0 set initially and then if a successful connection to Wordstream is achieved, $account get's set to 1. So, I changed $account = 1 as the initial value and the setup completes.

I've only just done this and so am not fully aware of any repurcussions that may arise in making this change. It gets us past the setup page, that's all.

What do the maintainers think of this?

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yes the tool is dead in the water because of the dependencies. It a paint to find out after installing a heap of modules.

Yes would be good to remove the validate for wordstream api

Wordstream has been released in the latest release.