Google can be scraped using multiple different targets, including the Google search bar, direct URL, or more specific targets like Google suggest, Google ads, etc.

Below you will find every target, whether it can be parsed to JSON, its required parameters, and ready to use code examples for cURL, Python and PHP, where you only need to change the username and password for your SERP Scraping API user for the code to work.

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All Google targets support the standard scraping parameters.

Targets

google_search

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Retrieve Google Search results.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`parse`	boolean		Automatically parse results.
`google_results_language`	string		Return results in a specified language. See all options here
`google_tbm`	string		Filter search results for specific types of content (news, apps, videos...). More information here . Sample value: `app`
`google_tbs`	string		This parameter contains parameters, like limiting/sorting results by date. More information here . Example: `qdr:w` (results from last week)
`google_safe_search`	boolean		Hide explicit results.
other...

google

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Retrieve results from any Google service.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`url`	string	✅	A URL of a Google service. Additional parameters can be specified in the URL itself.
`parse`	boolean		Automatically parse results (if a parsing strategy is available for the target url).
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google_travel_hotels

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Retrieve Google Travel service's hotel search results.

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If using the geo parameter, you must use Google's location name format described here. Single country strings (eg. United States) may perform poorly, while more specific locations (eg. San Francisco,California,United States) will work better.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`geo`	string		`San Francisco,California,United States`
`adults`	int		Number of adults staying.
`children`	int		Number of children staying.
`stars`	array		Filter for hotels that have the provided star rating. Example: `[4,5]`
`date_range`	string		Dates from and to. Example: `"2022-11-10,2022-11-20"`
other...

google_trends_explore

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Retrieve Google Trends search results.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`category`	number		A number denoting which category to use. See all available category ids here .
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google_shopping_search

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Retrieve Google Shopping search results page by supplying your query to the query parameter.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`parse`	boolean		Automatically parse results.
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google_shopping_product

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Retrieve Google Shopping search results using item ID supplied to the query parameter.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string (item id)	✅	Item id from Google Shopping.
`parse`	boolean		Automatically parse results.
`google_results_language`	string		Return results in a specified language. See all options here
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google_shopping_pricing

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Retrieve Google Shopping page results containing offers for a specific item by supplying product ID to the query parameter.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string (item id)	✅	Item id from Google Shopping.
`parse`	boolean		Automatically parse results.
`google_results_language`	string		Return results in a specified language. See all options here
other...

google_images

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Retrieve image links similar to the one you provided from Google Images search page.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`google_results_language`	string		Return results in a specified language. See all options here
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google_suggest

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Retrieve Google search term suggestions.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`geo`	string	✅	Geolocation must be provided in ISO 2 format.
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google_ads

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Retrieve Google search results with paid ads, if possible (not all responses include ads).

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`parse`	boolean		Automatically parse results.
`google_tbm`	string		Filter search results for specific types of content (news, apps, videos...). More information here. Sample value: `app`
`google_tbs`	string		This parameter contains parameters, like limiting/sorting results by date. More information here. Example: `qdr:w` (results from last week)
`google_results_language`	string		Return results in a specified language. See all options here
other...

google_maps

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Retrieve Google Maps results.

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If using the geo parameter, you must use Google's location name format described here. Single country strings (eg. United States) may perform poorly, while more specific locations (eg. San Francisco,California,United States) will work better.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	Search query.
`geo`	string		`San Francisco,California,United States`
`page_from`	string		Page to search in. Defaults to 1.
`num_pages`	string		Results in page. Defaults to 10.
`google_results_language`	string		Google results language.
`hotel_occupancy`	integer		Number of guests (only applicable if you are searching for a hotel-related search term).
`date_range`	string		Length for staying in the hotel, from - to. Example: 2024-07-12,2024-07-13 (only applicable if you are searching for a hotel-related search term).
`google_nfpr`	boolean		Auto-correction. Defaults to false.
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google_lens

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Retrieve Google Lens results. You can input the URL of any photo for search.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	✅	The URL of the image that you wish to search on Google Lens. Example: `https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/hamster-540188.jpg`
`parse`	boolean		If set to `true`, Scraping API will automatically parse the results.
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Google geolocation

You can use the geo parameter with Google targets in a few different ways:

Target using the full location name (city,region,country) as provided in Google CSV found here:

{
    "target": "google_search",
    "query": "pizza",
    "geo": "London,England,United Kingdom"
}

Target using the country name only:

{
    "target": "google_search",
    "query": "pizza",
    "geo": "United Kingdom"
}

Using coordinates and radius:

{
    "target": "google_search",
    "query": "pizza",
    "geo": "lat: 32.4827, lng: -22.9384, rad: 5000"
}

There are exceptions and above formats will not work in all situations, in which case you will get an error stating that.