> ## 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. # Scrape News Results from Baidu to CSV with Python - URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/scrape-news-results-from-baidu-to-csv-with-python/ - Published: 2026-01-07T02:32:13.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-07T02:32:13.000Z - Description: How to use SerpApi’s Baidu News API to get structured news data - Author: Sonika Arora - Tags: Baidu, Python, csv Baidu is the dominant search engine in China, and Baidu News is a critical source for understanding media coverage, brand sentiment, and trending topics in the Chinese market. However, scraping Baidu directly is notoriously difficult due to aggressive bot detection, regional constraints, and frequent HTML changes. In this post, we’ll walk through how to scrape Baidu News using SerpApi. ## Why Use SerpApi To Scrape News From Baidu If you’ve tried scraping Baidu directly, you’ve likely run into issues such as a dynamic HTML, frequent layout changes, javaScript-rendered elements, Chinese - specific quirks (encodings, redirects, tracking parameters). For production use cases, brand monitoring, market research, competitive intelligence, DIY scraping quickly becomes impractical. That’s where SerpApi’s Baidu News API comes in. It's a structured API, which returns a clean JSON response. SerpApi manages the intricacies of scraping and returns structured JSON results. This allows you to save time and effort by avoiding the need to build your own Baidu scraper using generic web scraping frameworks like BeautifulSoup which require constant maintenance. We do all the work to maintain all of our parsers and adapt them to respond to changes on search engines. By taking care of this for you on our side, we eliminate a lot of time and complexity from your workflow. ## About Baidu News API Baidu News API returns structured news data from Baidu News pages. The API returns structured fields such as title, link, source, date, and snippet. At a minimum, you need the following parameters: - `engine` \- set to `baidu_news` - `q` (search query) - set to your query - `api_key` \- set to your private API key Here is an example of the information the API scrapes: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-02-at-2.50.28---PM.png) ### Get results using a simple GET request ```CURL https://serpapi.com/search.json?engine=baidu_news&q=Artificial+Intelligence&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY ``` This request searches the Baidu News search engine for Artificial Intelligence and provides JSON results. Try it out on our playground: [SerpApi Playground - SerpApiTest SerpApi’s Google Search, Google Maps, YouTube, Bing, Walmart, eBay, Baidu, Yandex and more APIs for free in the interactive playground!![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon-115.png)SerpApiSerpApi![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/thumbnail/serpapi-text-logo-621a467e3b1e907622c18a6ac81455032e9784d6a86e81a1b4f6407d3f0120a6-98.svg)](https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=baidu%5Fnews&q=Artificial+Intelligence) ## An Example Use Case Let's write some code to extract Baidu News results for Phones and write them to a CSV. ### Setup your environment Ensure you have the necessary libraries installed. ```bash pip install google-search-results ``` > `google-search-results`is our Python library. You can use this library to scrape search results from any of SerpApi's APIs. #### More About Our Python Libraries We have two separate Python libraries [serpapi](https://github.com/serpapi/serpapi-python) and [google-search-results](https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-python), and both work perfectly fine. However, `serpapi` is a new one, and all the examples you can find on our website are from the old one `google-search-results`. If you'd like to use our Python library with all the examples from our website, you should install the `google-search-results` module instead of `serpapi`. For this blog post, I am using `google-search-results` because all of our documentation references this one. You may encounter issues if you have both libraries installed at the same time. If you have the old library installed and want to proceed with using our new library, please follow these steps: 1. Uninstall `google-search-results` module from your environment. 2. Make sure that neither `serpapi` nor `google-search-results` are installed at that stage. 3. Install `serpapi` module, for example with the following command if you're using `pip`: `pip install serpapi` ### Get your SerpApi API key To begin scraping data, first, create a [free account on serpapi.com](https://serpapi.com/users/sign%5Fup). You'll receive 250 free search credits each month to explore the API. - Get your SerpApi API Key from [this page](https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key). - \[Optional but Recommended\] Set your API key in an environment variable, instead of directly pasting it in the code. Refer [here](https://developer.vonage.com/en/blog/python-environment-variables-a-primer) to understand more about using environment variables. For this tutorial, I have saved the API key in an environment variable named "SERPAPI\_API\_KEY" in my .env file. ### Using Baidu News API First, we'll write a simple function to get news results from the Baidu News API: ```python def get_baidu_news(q): params = { "engine": "baidu_news", "q": q, "api_key": os.environ["SERPAPI_API_KEY"], } results = GoogleSearch(params).get_dict() return results.get("organic_results", []) ``` ### Writing Results To a CSV Then, we can write a simple script to call this function and write the news results to CSV: ``` if __name__ == "__main__": q = "Phones" output_file = "baidu_news_results.csv" header = ["position", "title", "link", "date", "snippet", "source", "thumbnail"] with open(output_file, "w", encoding="UTF8", newline="") as f: writer = csv.writer(f) writer.writerow(header) results = get_baidu_news(q) for r in results: writer.writerow([ r.get("position", ""), r.get("title", ""), r.get("link", ""), r.get("date", ""), r.get("snippet", ""), r.get("source", ""), r.get("thumbnail", "") ]) ``` You can run this script to fetch Baidu News results for the query “Phones.” Then, this creates a CSV file called `baidu_news_results.csv` and writes a header row that defines each column. You can then call `get_baidu_news` to retrieve the results and loop through them. For each result, it safely extracts the fields and writes them as rows in the CSV file. ### Results Here's what the results look like: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-02-at-3.06.34---PM.png) ## Adding Localization Use the `ct` parameter to control the language of the results returned. Set this when you want to restrict results to a specific Chinese language variant. - `1` — All languages (default) - `2` — Simplified Chinese - `3` — Traditional Chinese ## Adding Pagination Use the `pn`, `rn` parameters together to control paging and result count. Use `pn` and `rn` together to paginate through large result sets. ### Result Offset - The `pn`parameter defines how many results to skip, and is used to move through pages of results. - Examples: - `pn=0` → first page (default) - `pn=10` → second page - `pn=20` → third page ### Results per Page - Use the `rn` parameter defines the maximum number of results to return. (max: 50) - Examples: - `rn=10` → return 10 results (default) - `rn=30` → return 30 results - `rn=50` → return 50 results ## A Couple of Advanced Parameters ### Sorting the results The`rtt` parameter controls how results are ordered. Set this to a particular value when freshness matters more than relevance or vice versa. - `1` — Sort by attraction/relevance (default) - `4` — Sort by time (most recent first) ### Medium Filter Filters results by content source using the `medium` parameter. Use this to limit results to specific publisher types or platforms. - `0` — No filtering (default) - `1` — Only medium-authority sites - `2` — Only Baijiahao sources (`baijiahao.baidu.com`) All of these parameters are optional, but combining localization, pagination, and filters gives you precise control over the Baidu News results you receive. ## Conclusion Scraping Baidu News directly is fragile and time-consuming. I hope this tutorial helped you understand how to use SerpApi’s Baidu News API to get clean, structured news data with production-ready reliability. If you’re building anything that depends on Chinese news visibility, this is the fastest and easiest way to get started. Feel free to reach out to us at contact@serpapi.com for any questions. ## Relevant Links #### Documentation - [Documentation for Baidu News API](https://serpapi.com/baidu-news-api) - [Status page](https://serpapi.com/status/baidu%5Fnews) - [Plans and Pricing](https://serpapi.com/pricing) #### Related Posts [SerpApi’s Baidu Search APIFollowing up a brief walkthrough of SerpApi’s Ebay’s Search Engine Results API \[https://medium.com/serpapi/serpapis-ebay-search-engine-results-api-3b33fb7aec68\] . I wanted to highlight another one of the API’s that are available at our users disposal for SerpApi: Baidu. 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