spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "serpapi",3  "name": "SerpApi",4  "aliases": ["Serp API", "Google Search Results API"],5  "vendor": { "name": "SerpApi, LLC", "slug": "serpapi", "website": "https://serpapi.com/" },6  "homepage_url": "https://serpapi.com/",7  "docs_url": "https://serpapi.com/search-api",8  "repo_url": "https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-python",9  "pricing_url": "https://serpapi.com/pricing",10  "product_type": "api-service",11  "product_status": "active",12  "summary": "API that returns live search-engine result pages from Google and other engines as structured JSON, with localization, device and search-type parameters",13  "description": "SerpApi is a hosted API that performs real-time searches on Google and other engines and returns the result page parsed into structured JSON (raw HTML and Markdown are also available). Parameters control query, geographic location, language, device type, pagination and search vertical, and separate endpoints cover Google Images, News, Shopping, Maps, Scholar, Patents, Books and newer surfaces such as AI Mode, alongside other engines. Cached results are not charged against the monthly quota, and plans are monthly subscriptions sized by search volume with a free tier and enterprise options; faster response tiers are sold as add-ons.\n\nClient libraries exist for Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go and other languages (the Python client is MIT-licensed). SerpApi is widely used for SEO rank tracking, market and price monitoring, academic collection of search results and as a search tool in agent frameworks such as LangChain.\n\nIt is proprietary and depends on scraping third-party engines, so result structures can change when those engines change their pages, and users are responsible for how they use the collected data.",14  "capabilities": ["Structured JSON for Google web, images, news, shopping, maps and scholar results", "Support for additional search engines", "Localization by country, language and device", "Raw HTML and Markdown output options", "Client libraries in many languages", "Result caching that does not consume quota"],15  "workflows": ["Track rankings for a keyword set across locations", "Collect Google Scholar results for a literature study", "Provide a search tool to a LangChain agent"],16  "advantages": ["Mature, well-documented parsing of many result types", "Fine-grained localization controls", "Broad SDK coverage"],17  "limitations": ["Proprietary and dependent on third-party engines", "Result schemas change when engines change", "Subscription sized by volume rather than pure pay-per-use"],18  "prerequisites": ["API key"],19  "audiences": ["SEO and market analysts", "Researchers collecting search results", "Agent developers"],20  "alternatives": ["brave-search-api", "tavily", "exa", "bright-data"],21  "categories": [{ "slug": "search-apis", "primary": true }, { "slug": "data-collection-crawling" }],22  "tags": ["api", "web-search", "serp", "seo", "python", "proprietary"],23  "use_cases": ["search-the-web-programmatically", "collect-web-data"],24  "operating_systems": ["web"],25  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],26  "interfaces": ["api", "sdk", "web"],27  "deployment_models": ["saas"],28  "integrations": ["LangChain", "LlamaIndex", "Zapier", "Make"],29  "data_formats": ["JSON", "HTML", "Markdown"],30  "languages": ["Python", "JavaScript", "Ruby", "PHP", "Java", "Go", ".NET"],31  "source_model": "proprietary",32  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "paid", "enterprise"],33  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",34  "self_hostable": false,35  "sources": [36    { "url": "https://serpapi.com/", "type": "official_site", "title": "SerpApi", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },37    { "url": "https://serpapi.com/search-api", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Google Search Engine Results API", "supports": ["capabilities", "data_formats", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },38    { "url": "https://serpapi.com/pricing", "type": "pricing_page", "title": "SerpApi pricing", "supports": ["pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },39    { "url": "https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-python", "type": "repository", "title": "serpapi/google-search-results-python", "supports": ["languages"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }40  ],41  "confidence": "high",42  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",43  "depth": "standard",44  "editorial_status": "reviewed",45  "visibility": "public",46  "featured": false,47  "author": "batch-C"48}49