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

This week the Google Search API's knowledge_graph gained two valuable additions that open up commercial data we weren't surfacing before: what a local business actually sells, and who you can book them through.

Full product listings in the Knowledge Graph

Local business Knowledge Graphs show a "Products" carousel, and we now parse every product rendered in the carousel, along with the products_link that points to the full catalog page, on both desktop and mobile.

Knowledge graph- products results

This is especially useful for competitive pricing research and local inventory monitoring, where the Knowledge Graph is often the only place a small merchant's catalog appears in search at all. Details

Booking options in the Knowledge Graph

Knowledge Graphs for tours and local experiences include a "Booking options" section listing each reseller and the tours they sell.

Because every reseller is returned side by side with its own prices and durations, this is a helpful source for travel and experience platforms comparing distribution across OTAs, and for spotting where an operator's own site is undercut by a middleman. Details

📑 Full List of Updates

Google Search API

Features

  • We have added snippet_parts to knowledge_graph web results. Some facts — an age, for example — are rendered by Google as a card of stacked lines rather than one sentence, and were returned as a single run-together snippet such as "39 years Feb 5, 1985". Those entries now also carry snippet_parts: ["39 years", "Feb 5, 1985"], while snippet keeps its existing value.

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where episode_guide was missing on mobile expandable sections, and added support for non-US domains that use different selectors on desktop. Details
  • We have fixed the issue where newer user_reviews layouts in knowledge_graph were not parsed, and added the missing documentation for the field. Details
  • We have fixed the issue where local_news was not being parsed. Details

Google Scholar API

Improvements

  • We have restored the API's response time after a recent slowdown. Details

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where searches returned empty results. Details

Google Jobs API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where "Verify your request" interstitials were returned as successful but empty results. Details

Google Local API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where valid searches returned empty results, by correctly reporting the upstream status for verify-request responses. Details
  • We have fixed the issue where results were sometimes unrelated to the query. Details

Google News Light API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where a Google redirect link was intermittently returned instead of the final destination URL. Details

Google Light API and Google News Light API

Changes

  • The location parameter is temporarily unsupported on these engines while we work on a more reliable implementation. Use the Google Search API or Google News API if you need location targeting in the meantime.

Amazon Product API

Features

  • We have added variant_combinations to product_results for products with two or more variant dimensions.

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where related_products returned incorrect pricing. Details

Bing Search API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where results were inconsistent with the requested location when lat/lon or location were used. Details

Bing Shopping API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where product_token was missing from shopping_results[]. Details

Features

  • We have added post_results, covering blog and cafe post listings. Details

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