SerpApi: Google Search API

SerpApi is a real-time API service that delivers structured JSON data from search engine results pages (SERPs) across Google, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, and dozens more, handling proxies, CAPTCHAs, and parsing for developers.

🚀 Overview

SerpApi was founded in 2017 by Julien Khaleghy to solve the massive pain of scraping Google Images and other SERPs for machine learning datasets. Building scrapers required dealing with anti-bot measures, proxies, CAPTCHAs, and parsing messy HTML—which ate up 80% of development time for simple data collection tasks like training food calorie or dog breed recognition models.

Today, it provides reliable, real-time access to structured data from over 50 APIs, including organic results, local packs, knowledge graphs, shopping, ads, related questions, and more. No need to maintain fragile scrapers.

It's built for developers, data scientists, ML engineers, SEO teams, and businesses integrating search data into apps for competitive intelligence, price monitoring, ranking tracking, or research.

We built it because there was no simple, reliable way to get SERP data at scale—until now.

✨ Key Features

Comprehensive coverage of 50+ APIs: Google (Search, Images, Maps, Flights, Hotels, Shopping, Patents, etc.), Bing, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, Yelp, Walmart, Yandex, Baidu, and more (what it does: full SERP extraction; why: one-stop for all search data needs)
Automatic proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, browser emulation, and geolocation support (eliminates infrastructure headaches)
Rich structured JSON with pagination, filters, local results, knowledge graphs, immersive products, perspectives, and legal extras like U.S. Legal Shield up to $2M coverage
99.95% SLA, ZeroTrace Mode for privacy, multi-language client libraries
Optional: Pixel Position API (BETA), Search Index API (ALPHA)

🛠 Tech Stack

Client Libraries: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Java, PHP, .NET, Rust
Parsing: Ruby (nokolexbor HTML5 parser), Rust (HTTP/2 client with TLS fingerprinting)
Backend: Ruby/Python (from open repos and tools)
Auth: API Keys
Hosting: Cloud infrastructure (proxies, scalable)

👥 Who Is This For?

This project is useful for:

Developers who want to integrate real-time SERP data without building/maintaining scrapers
ML/Data Science teams collecting large datasets from searches
SEO/Marketing teams tracking rankings, competitors, and trends

📸 Screenshots / Demo

Live demo: https://serpapi.com/playground
GitHub: https://github.com/serpapi

🔥 Project Status

🟢 Actively building

Last updated: 2026-03-24

❓ FAQ

Is this project free?

Freemium (Free: 250 searches/month, 50/hour; paid plans $25+/month for more volume, all month-to-month, cancel anytime, full refund in 7 days if <20% used.)

Is the source code available?

No — proprietary core service, but open-source client libraries (e.g., serpapi-python) and public roadmap on GitHub.

Can I contribute?

Yes — create feature requests, report bugs/PRs on the Public Roadmap repo: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap.

📬 Contact & Links

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