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# SerpApi Weekly Changelog: December 29, 2025 - January 04, 2026
- URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/serpapi-weekly-changelog-december-29-2025-january-04-2026/
- Published: 2026-01-05T12:46:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-05T12:46:31.000Z
- Description: Here’s everything new at SerpApi for the week of December 29, 2025 - January 04, 2026: features, improvements, and bug fixes.
- Author: Milos Durdevic
- Tags: Changelog

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**](https://serpapi.com/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](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/1578)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2026/01/CleanShot-2026-01-05-at-13.04.06@2x-1.png)

Google Flights Autocomplete API

### [**Google Lens About This Image API**](https://serpapi.com/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](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/2355)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2026/01/CleanShot-2026-01-05-at-13.34.24@2x.png)

Google Lens About This Image API

## 📑 Full List of Updates

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

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was incorrectly parsing `sitelinks` for ads. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3390)

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

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was not parsing `type=list` results. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3370)

### [YouTube Search API](https://serpapi.com/youtube-search-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was not parsing ads. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3301)

### [**Google Local API**](https://serpapi.com/google-local-api)

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to parse GPS coordinates. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3119)

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

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the `sort_by` and `period` parameters were not functioning properly for News results. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3330)
- We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.

### [Google Maps API](https://serpapi.com/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](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/850)

**Bug fixes**

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

### [**Bing Reverse Image API**](https://serpapi.com/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**](https://serpapi.com/tripadvisor-place-api)

**Bug fixes**

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

## 💬 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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