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

DuckDuckGo Search API

DuckDuckGo recently ramped up its anti-scraping protections, which initially caused performance degradation. Our engineers responded quickly, overcoming the challenge and delivering major improvements in response time and success rate. Details

DuckDuckGo Search API status

Google Forums API (NEW API)

We’ve released a new Google Forums API, enabling structured access to forum-style results such as Reddit, Quora, and other community discussions directly from Google’s search.

Google Forums API response example

YouTube Video Transcript API (New API)

We’ve also released a new YouTube Video Transcript API, which lets you easily extract transcripts, chapters, and subtitle tracks from YouTube videos—making it simpler to analyze and integrate video content into your workflows.

📑 Full List of Updates

Google Knowledge Graph API

Improvements

  • X-ray is now correctly marking the Knowledge Graph header images on our playground. Details

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where API would return an error for some searches.

Google AI Overview Results API

Bug fixes

  • Images contained inside the AI Overview are no longer extracted as Inline Images. Details
  • We have fixed the issue where API would return an error for some searches.

Google Local API

Bug fixes

  • GPS coordinates are now correctly extracted for all places. Details

Google AI Overview API

Bug fixes

  • Mathematical equations are now correctly formatted and extracted. Details

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue of missing Web Results. They are now fully extracted. Details
  • We have fixed the issue of missing News Results. They are now fully extracted. Details

Google Scholar API

Improvements

  • We are now extracting all the listed authors from Organic Results. Details

Google Play Games API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where API would return an error for some searches.

Bing Images API

Bug fixes

  • We fixed an issue where the thumbnail image URL did not point to the correct image. Details

Apple App Store API

Bug fixes

  • We have fixed the issue where API would return an error for some searches.

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