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Accessing the Google Scraping API is as simple as sending a GET request to our endpoint.

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Last updated 7 months ago

The Google API works on top of the SERP API, which is available via GET requests sent to our official API endpoint and by specifying the engine=<GOOGLE_ENGINE> query parameter.

The official SERP API endpoint is:

  • https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2

To choose the appropriate engine check out the available .

You can use this as the base URL for the Google API: https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&engine=<GOOGLE_ENGINE>

The API key

Our SERP API requires an API key for authentication. The key is embedded in the URL as a query parameter called api_key and has to be included on each GET request, for the request to pass. Failing to pass the required api_key parameter or passing an incorrect key will result in an Unauthorized HTTP status.

To obtain an API key for the SERP API, you have to:

  1. a new account on our official platform

  2. Subscribe to the SERP API service from within the Dashboard

Subscription to the SERP API gives you access to all supported engines: Google, Bing and Yandex.

In the following documentation, we will refer to the API key by using this syntax:<YOUR_API_KEY>

Please make sure to store your private API key in a secure location and never make it publicly available. Using the API key directly impacts you subscription plan.

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