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

Google Search API

We’ve added a new feature to our Google Search API that allows users to specify search origin using geographic coordinates instead of a location name. Developers can now use the lat and lon parameters to define the exact GPS latitude and longitude where the search should originate, giving much more precise geographic control compared to the traditional location parameter. In addition, a new radius parameter can be used alongside coordinates or location parameter to influence results within a specified distance, which is reflected in the local pack, where results include a within_radius, indicator. This update enables more accurate location targeting for local search use cases such as nearby business discovery, map based applications, and geo specific ranking analysis. Details

📑 Full List of Updates

Amazon Product API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract about_item field. Details
  • We have fixed an issue where the API was not properly and fully extracting data under product_details the field. Details
  • We have fixed an issue where the API was missing to extract price field. Details

Tripadvisor Place API

Bug fixes

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

Google Search API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some rare cases.
  • We have fixed the issue where the API was incorrectly extracting places_sites. Details

Google Scholar API

Features

  • We are now extracting citations per year information under citations_per_year field. Details

Bug fixes

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

DuckDuckGo Search API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to return AI Search Assist answers for some searches. Details

OpenTable Reviews API

Bug fixes

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

Google Jobs API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract knowledge_graph field in some cases. Details

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the sort_by and period parameters were not functioning properly for News results. Details

Google Flights API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API would return empty results for some searches. Details

Google Shopping API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API would return empty results when device parameter was set to mobile. Details

Google Hotels API

Improvment

  • In addition to properties, we are now also extracting places that don't exactly match your search under non_matching_properties field. Details

Google Inline Images API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where the API was not extracting inline_images. Details

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