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

⭐️ Top Updates

Google Flights Autocomplete API

The newly released Google Flights Autocomplete API extracts structured suggestions directly from the Google Flights search dropdown, making it easy to power fast and accurate flight search experiences. It returns ordered location suggestions with clear typing between cities and regions, enriched descriptions, and Google Knowledge Graph IDs that can be passed directly into the Google Flights API. Each suggestion can include associated airports with IATA codes, city mappings, and distance context, allowing developers to seamlessly resolve user input into precise flight search parameters. This API is ideal for building responsive travel search interfaces, reducing input errors, and improving conversion by matching the exact behavior users expect from Google Flights. Details

Google Flights Autocomplete API

Google Lens About This Image API

The newly released Google Lens About This Image API exposes the same rich context users see when opening the About this image tab in Google Lens, allowing developers to programmatically understand where an image appears online and how it is described. It returns a structured header with the analyzed image and organizes results into ordered sections that list pages where the image was found, including titles, sources, dates, snippets, thumbnails, and favicons. This makes it easy to assess image provenance, age signals, and reuse across the web, which is especially valuable for content verification, media analysis, and trust and safety workflows. By mirroring the Lens interface behavior, the API enables applications to deliver clear transparency and attribution insights directly within their own products. Details

Google Lens About This Image API

📑 Full List of Updates

Google Search API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was incorrectly parsing sitelinks for ads. Details

Google AI Overview Results API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was not parsing type=list results. Details

YouTube Search API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was not parsing ads. Details

Google Local API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to parse GPS coordinates. Details

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the sort_by and period parameters were not functioning properly for News results. Details
  • We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.

Google Maps API

Features

  • We have added a new nearby parameter to the API that returns search results closer to the specified location. Especially useful when q parameter includes near me keywords. Details

Bug fixes

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

Bing Reverse Image API

Bug fixes

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

Tripadvisor Place API

Bug fixes

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

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