What’s New at SerpApi: September 2025 Changelog

September was a busy month for SerpApi, with new scraping capabilities, steady improvements to existing APIs, and a host of important bug fixes.

🚀 Top Updates

• New API: Google AI mode can now be scraped
  We are happy to inform you that the new Google AI Mode API is now available.

• Scrape AI-recommended products in Google Shopping
  You can now scrape all the recommended products by AI in Google Shopping page.

• New API: Facebook Profile API
  You can now scrape Facebook profile using our new API. It includes profile name, profile picture, follower counts, address, phone, email, links, photos and more.

• Use meter on the zoom level for Google Maps API
  As an alternative to default zoom level, we can also now use meter to define the map height.
• Google Product API is no longer supported
  Google has discontinued the Google Product endpoint. We recommend using SerpApi's Google Immersive Product API as an alternative.

📑 Full List of Updates

Google Shopping API

New features

• Parse “reviews / articles” section — now available in output. Details
• Parse AI Recommended block into the appropriate structure. Details
• Parse horizontal filters. Details

Improvements

• Documentation updated for additional countries. Details

Bug fixes

• shopping_results missing for some layouts — fixed. Details
• Missing immersive product information — fixed. Details
• Missing thumbnails — fixed. Details

Google Light Search API

Improvements

• Incomplete related searches — improved coverage. Details

Google Light API

Bug fixes

• Incomplete answer_box answer — fixed. Details

Google AI Overviews API

Bug fixes

• Missing reference_indexes — added. Details
• Sublists within paragraphs not scraped — fixed. Details
• Missing table and list data — fixed. Details
• Image Data URI is being included in snippet string — fixed. Details

Google Search API

Bug fixes

• Missing public alerts answer box — fixed. Details
• Missing price in finance answer box — fixed. Details
• Missing fields in dictionary answer box — fixed. Details
• Incorrectly parsed fields in translation answer box — fixed. Details
• serpapi_pagination returned when there are no results — fixed. Details

Google Jobs API

Bug fixes

• 0 results via API while results exist on Google Jobs — fixed. Details

Google Images Light API

Bug fixes

• Desktop searches returned empty — fixed. Details
• Timeouts when imgar set — fixed. Details

Google Videos API

Bug fixes

• Not all videos scraped — fixed. Details

YouTube Search API

Bug fixes

• Raw HTML looked broken — fixed. Details

Youtube Video API

Bug fixes

• No results for related videos — fixed. Details

Google Finance API

Bug fixes

• Empty graph data — fixed. Details
• Missing summary.market incl. price_movement — fixed. Details
• Graph timestamps had incorrect time-zone offsets — fixed. Details

Google Maps API

New features

• Support meters in coordinates for zoom — metric zoom targeting. Details

Bug fixes

• Price format changed — parser updated. Details
• Left sidebar in HTML stuck loading — fixed. Details

Google Maps Reviews API

New features

• Filter reviews by keyword — refined review retrieval. Details

DuckDuckGo Search API

Improvements

• Clarified start parameter description. Details

Bug fixes

• 10 organic results instead of 26–30 — fixed. Details
• serpapi_pagination.next ignored current offset — fixed. Details
• organic_resuls with DEEP_ERROR_NO_RESULTS returned instead of empty — fixed. Details

Bing Search API

Improvements

• New-style news/top stories component parsed. Details

Naver Search API

New features

• Filter and sort with nso parameter. Details

eBay Search API

New features

• Add support for PrefLoc parameter — location preferences. Details
• Scrape sold date when show_only=Sold — transaction insights. Details

Walmart Search API

Bug fixes

• Sale pricing information not scraped — fixed. Details

Google Patents API

Bug fixes

• Returns different results than manual search — aligned. Details
• Increased response time — performance improved. Details

Baidu Search API

Bug fixes

• Ad results not parsed into JSON — fixed. Details
• Dictionary answer box appears as organic result without title — fixed. Details

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⚠️ Deprecations & Breaking Changes

• Google Product API is discontinued as the product page view is deprecated by Google. We recommend using SerpApi's Google Immersive Product API as an alternative.

That wraps up September 2025!