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# SerpApi Weekly Changelog: August 03 - 09, 2026
- URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026/
- Published: 2026-08-10T12:15:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-18T12:06:03.000Z
- Description: Here’s everything new at SerpApi for the week of August 03 - 09, 2026: new APIs, features, improvements, and bug fixes.
- Author: Milos Durdevic
- Tags: Changelog

The past week at SerpApi brought new APIs, features, expanded scraping capabilities, steady improvements to existing APIs, and a range of important bug fixes.

## ⭐️ Top Updates

### [Introducing direct image uploads for the Google Lens API](https://serpapi.com/google-lens-upload-an-image)

We've expanded our Google Lens API with a new `image_id` parameter, enabling developers to perform visual searches by directly uploading local image files rather than hosting them on public URLs. By submitting an image file to our [Image API](https://serpapi.com/image-api) and generating an `image_id`, you can seamlessly pass this ID into your Google Lens API requests to retrieve visual matches, product details, exact matches, and extracted text in a structured format. This eliminates the need for external cloud storage and simplifies file handling, making it ideal for e-commerce visual search tools, AI-powered product recognition engines, digital asset management systems, and automated inventory cataloging workflows that process direct user uploads. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/948)

## 📑 Full List of Updates

### [Google Ads API](https://serpapi.com/google-ads-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract multiple fields from the carousel section. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4096)

### [Google News Results API](https://serpapi.com/news-results)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was returning empty results for some searches. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4103)
- We have fixed the issue where the API was timing out when `tbs` parameter was being used. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4091)

### [Instagram Profile API](https://serpapi.com/instagram-profile-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was returning empty results for some searches. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4044)

### [Tripadvisor Place API](https://serpapi.com/tripadvisor-place-api)

**Improvements**

- We have improved the success rate and response time of the API. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4114)

### [Google AI Overview API](https://serpapi.com/google-ai-overview-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API would return empty results for some searches. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4078)

### [**DuckDuckGo Search API**](https://serpapi.com/duckduckgo-search-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.

### [Google Shopping API](https://serpapi.com/google-shopping-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.

### [Google Patents Details API](https://serpapi.com/google-patents-details-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API would merge the original and translated text into one field, instead of extracting them separately. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/2744)

### [Google Lens API](https://serpapi.com/google-lens-api)

**Features**

- We have added support for extracting `organic_results` and `short_videos` sections. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4076)

### [Google Finance API](https://serpapi.com/google-finance-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract `graph` and `summary` results. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4124)

### 💬 We’d Love Your Feedback

Your input helps us improve. If something’s not working as expected, or if there’s a feature you’d love to see, let us know. You can reach us at any time at contact@serpapi.com. Or you can open an issue on our [Public Roadmap](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap).

Thanks for building with SerpApi!

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