> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://serpapi.com/blog/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Minimum amount of results per page across SerpApi’s supported Google engines - URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/minimum-amount-of-results-per-page-across-serpapis-supported-google-engines/ - Published: 2022-01-24T06:41:15.000Z - Updated: 2025-12-09T06:52:39.000Z - Author: Justin O'Hara - Tags: Tips&Tricks Google has discontinued support for the num parameter since this post was originally published. For details, refer to our update: [Google Experiments With Restricting Results Per Page](https://serpapi.com/blog/google-experiments-with-restricting-results-per-page/). ## Maximize vs minimize search results While many users are looking to maximize their search results within SerpApi’s various search engine APIs, there is a worthwhile counterargument to test the inverse and find the minimum amount of results with specific search queries. While there is always a chance that Google may provide different results when changing or omitting the `num` parameter it is worth exploring. Following up on the series of blogs I wrote earlier last year: [Maximum amount of results per page across SerpApi’s supported Google enginesSerpApi can make sense of all of the results on our supported Google engines. But, the maximum amount of results per engine changes…![](https://cdn-static-1.medium.com/_/fp/icons/Medium-Avatar-500x500.svg)SerpApiJustin O’Hara![](https://miro.medium.com/max/530/1*rB0sFgbn4T_DVlyt_MT9xQ.png)](https://medium.com/serpapi/maximum-amount-of-results-per-page-across-serpapis-supported-google-engines-7dfc5a4d52cc) [Maximum amount of results per page across SerpApi’s supported Google engines (Part 2)Following up the blog post here…![](https://cdn-static-1.medium.com/_/fp/icons/Medium-Avatar-500x500.svg)SerpApiJustin O’Hara![](https://miro.medium.com/max/842/1*uVL-q0FYT9EKvN8sz4kszw.jpeg)](https://medium.com/serpapi/maximum-amount-of-results-per-page-across-serpapis-supported-google-engine-part-2-488669942a3e) [Maximum amount of results per page across SerpApi’s supported Google engines (Part 3)In the third installment of this series of investigating maximum amount of results per page across SerpApi’s supported Google engines, I…![](https://cdn-static-1.medium.com/_/fp/icons/Medium-Avatar-500x500.svg)SerpApiJustin O’Hara![](https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*22txBC3jA1UlfcrNH69oNg.jpeg)](https://medium.com/serpapi/maximum-amount-of-results-per-page-across-serpapis-supported-google-engines-part-3-6bc3c73b2449) ### A minimum amount of results comparison It is time to see what the minimum amount of results per page is per engine. The use case that brought this to the point of writing a blog about was the [Google Maps API](https://serpapi.com/google-maps-api). But I figured it would be best to start with Google Search as it is the most commonly used search engine. First, the control group with SerpApi’s classic “Coffee” search engine in Austin, Texas…this time with the `num` parameter omitted: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/1.png) Now while the `organic_results` only provided 8 items, there is a wide set of results, `recipes_results`, `knowledge_graph`, `discover_more_places` `related_searches` . Let’s try the search with a `num` parameter of 10: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/2.png) ***Almost*** the same results, 1 less `discover_more_places` parameter, but that doesn’t change the fact that the `num` is defined as: > *…defines the maximum number of results to return. (e.g., `10` (default) returns 10 results, `40` returns 40 results, and `100` returns 100 results).* Now with a search with the `num` set to 5: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/3.png) We got 4 `organic_results` from the `num` set to 4. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/4.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/5.png) Back to back, the HTML is set up a little different with the global position of the elements but Wikipedia’s result is still in the 1st position of the `organic_results`. Going a little further here’s a search with `num` set to 1: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/6.png) Sure enough, 1 `organic_result.` And NOW, with `num` set to 0\. We get no results at all, and a monster “gone fishing” ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/7.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2022/01/8.png) ## Conclusion While there are other data sets other than `organic_results` to scrape from an organic search, you can set the `num` parameter down to and including 1 before you get no results with a `num` parameter set to 0. Side to side results from `num` \= 10 and `num` \= 5 results `organic_results` the ranking is relatively in the same order. And there are some minor changes with the HTML global positions of some elements, but that is a common occurrence with searches back to back with the same exact parameters. So far in this case study, there is no point in modifying the `num` parameter below the default amount because nothing changes besides fewer data. --- You can sign-up for SerpApi here: You can find the API documentation here: [https://serpapi.com/search-api/](https://serpapi.com/search-api)