Google Local Ads API

The Google Local "Places" Results API allows a user to scrape the results of Google Places search. SerpApi is able to make sense of this information and extract title, reviews, ratings, price, type, address, description, review, hours, thumbnail, gps_coordinates, place_id, links and more.

JSON structure overview

{
  "ads_results": [
    {
      "position": "Integer - Place position",
      "ad_title": "String - Ad title",
      "displayed_link": "String - Displayed link of the ad",
      "title": "String - Place title",
      "rating": "Float - Place rating",
      "reviews_original": "String - Place review count",
      "reviews": "Integer - Place review count",
      "price": "String - Place price point",
      "type": "String - Place type",
      "address": "String - Place address",
      "hours": "String - Place working hours",
      "description": "String - Description or short review of a place",
      "place_id": "String - Google CID (customer identifier) of a place",
      "place_id_search": "String - URL to the SerpApi search",
      "lsig": "String - Aditional ID of a place",
      "thumbnail": "String - URL to the image thumbnail",
      "gps_coordinates": {
        "latitude": "Numeric - Place latitude",
        "longitude": "Numeric - Place longitude"
      }
    },
    ...
  ],
}

Results for: Coffee

Results for: Coffee

JSON Example

{
  "ads_results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "ad_title": "Freshly brewed Wawa coffee",
      "displayed_link": "wawa.com",
      "title": "Wawa",
      "type": "Convenience store",
      "reviews": 70,
      "address": "7408 Tonnelle Ave",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours",
      "place_id": "14482539134301609407",
      "place_id_search": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?device=desktop&engine=google_local&gl=us&google_domain=google.com&hl=en&location=New+York%2C+NY%2C+United+States&ludocid=14482539134301609407&q=Coffee",
      "lsig": "AB86z5V4kwQMc-lmfzU5p6Ziwp9r",
      "thumbnail": "<URL to image>",
      "gps_coordinates": {
        "latitude": 40.803405,
        "longitude": -74.01922499999999
      },
      "service_options": {
        "in_store_shopping": true,
        "curbside_pickup": true,
        "no_contact_delivery": true
      }
    }
    ...
  ]
}