August was a busy month for SerpApi, with new scraping capabilities, steady improvements to existing APIs, and a host of important bug fixes. Highlights include the launch of a new API for TripAdvisor, short video results, and a faster Google Shopping API.

🚀 Top Updates

New: TripAdvisor Search API
New: Google Search - Shorts videos tab
  • New API: Released new Google Shopping Light API
    This API allows you to scrape shopping results with lightning-fast speeds. This engine contains all the most critical data, but without the extra-rich results you usually find on a regular Google Shopping page.
Google Shopping Light is roughly 3x faster than Google Shopping
Scrape "Things to know" section from Google Search
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📑 Full List of Updates

Google Search API

New features

Improvements

  • Include an exact timestamp for results that contain a time value. [Details]
  • Docs: clarify gl must be used with location. [Details]
  • Support new “versus” AI Overview layout. [Details]

Bug fixes

  • event_results not being scraped. [Details]
  • Missing sports_results standings on mobile. [Details]
  • Intermittent 500 Internal Server Error. [Details]
  • Incorrect account_handle and source in Knowledge Graph web_results. [Details]
  • recipes_results missing from JSON. [Details]
  • pixel_position no longer working. [Details]
  • Missing total_results for some searches. [Details]
  • Missing Twitter results. [Details]

Google AI Overview API

Bug fixes

Google Local API

New features

Bug fixes

  • Sponsored ads were parsed into local_results instead of ads_results on mobile. [Details]

Tripadvisor API (new)

New features

Yelp Search API

Bug fixes

  • Organic results intermittently not returned. [Details]

Google Shopping API

Improvements

  • Always provide immersive_product_page_token. [Details]
  • Remove gl options for countries no longer supported by Google. [Details]

Bug fixes

  • Incorrectly parsed thumbnail / thumbnails. [Details]
  • Old layout deprecations: unsupported gl countries. [Details]

Google Shopping Light API (new)

New features

Google Images API

Bug fixes

Google Hotels Property Details API

New features

Bug fixes

  • Amenities not scraped for some hotels. [Details]

Google Maps Reviews API

Bug fixes

  • Pages beyond a certain point returned empty. [Details]

Bug fixes

  • Show clear “unsupported” error when region=REGION and geo=Worldwide are combined. [Details]

Google Immersive Product API

Bug fixes

Bug fixes

  • Empty snippet and displayed_link fields. [Details]

eBay API

Bug fixes

  • Missing seller information in responses. [Details]

Bing Search API

Bug fixes

  • CAPTCHA returned for some searches. [Details]
  • Inconsistent results for the same query. [Details]
  • Odd behavior when using cc parameter. [Details]

Playground

Bug fixes

  • gl and hl not reflected when location was set. [Details]

Heads-up: deprecations & parameters

  • Google Shopping gl coverage: Google no longer supports certain countries. We removed those options and fixed old-layout deprecations; check your queries if you target long-tail locales. [Improvement] · [Fix]

Json Restrictor

Improvements

No Code Integrations

We've added more APIs to our n8n node:

    • Amazon
    • Google Hotels
    • YouTube
    • Google Finance
    • Google Images Light
    • Google News Light
    • Google Play
    • Google Trends Trending Now

📢 In Case You Missed It

This month's featured blog post:

Building a fast, self‑hosted research agent with OpenAI models + SerpApi
Modern language models are effective at synthesis but do not inherently provide fresh, verifiable information. Connecting a model to web search creates an autonomous AI agent that closes the gap: it enables current sources, systematic coverage of a topic, and traceable answers. This post describes a compact research agent that
SerpApiJames Collins

⚠️ Deprecations & Breaking Changes

  • Google Shopping API: Removal of old gl options and layouts (#2840, #2849).

That wraps up August 2025!