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# SerpApi Weekly Changelog: February 02-08, 2026
- URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/serpapi-weekly-changelog-february-02-08-2026/
- Published: 2026-02-09T12:08:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-16T22:48:33.000Z
- Description: Here’s everything new at SerpApi for the week of February 02-08, 2026: features, improvements, and bug fixes.
- Author: Milos Durdevic
- Tags: Changelog

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

## ⭐️ Top Updates

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

The newly released DuckDuckGo Search Assist API exposes the rich assistive answers shown in DuckDuckGo’s Search Assist panel, making it easy to programmatically access concise, source backed explanations for informational queries. It returns a structured search\_assist object that can include direct answers, expanded answers, cited sources, related titles, abstracts, domains, and extracted entities and word ngrams. This allows developers to deliver fast, high confidence responses with clear attribution, while still retaining access to the underlying organic context. The API is especially useful for building Q&A experiences, research tools, and AI powered assistants that need reliable, transparent summaries without having to parse complex page layouts. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3432)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2026/02/CleanShot-2026-02-09-at-12.33.17@2x.png)

DuckDuckGo Search Assist API

## 📑 Full List of Updates

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

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was not extracting `total_results` in some cases. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3468)
- We have fixed the issue where the API was incorrectly showed pagination links when there were fewer than 10 organic results. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/SerpApi/issues/7739)

### [Yelp Place API](https://serpapi.com/yelp-place)

**Features**

- We have added a `serpapi_full_menu_link` field to make it easy to connect the Yelp Place API with the Yelp Place Full Menu API. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3284)

**Improvements**

- We now extract both the encoded and human-readable IDs of a single place. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/1431)

### [Google Local Services API](https://serpapi.com/google-local-services-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/3461)
- We have fixed the issue where the API was returning incorrect location when using the `data_cid` parameter. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/1114)

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

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was incorrectly extracting several fields. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3453)

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

**Bug fixes**

- We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract `apply_options` and `description` fields in some cases. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3458)

## 💬 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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