SerpApi Changelog: March, 2023

Summary of March Updates

A sum-up of SerpApi's latest product improvements, and feature releases 🙂

Features

• [Feature] Google Search API: add support to expanded "Top Sites"
• [Feature] Google Maps Reviews API: add support to scrape reviews rating
• [Feature] Google Local Results API: now sponsored (ad) results is a separate JSON key from regular, organic results
• [Feature] Google Shopping Api: add support for "Top Features" section
• [Feature] Google Search Results: add support to "Open Hours" answer box
• [Feature] Knowledge Graph API: add support to extract "Average cost after aid", "Graduation rate", and "Acceptance rate"
• [Feature] Google Shopping API: add support for "Others searched for" Block
• [Feature] Google Shopping API: add support to extract price in the parentheses
• [Feature] Home Depot API: add support to search by SKU / Product ID
• [Feature] Google Search API: add support to a new "Things To Know" section in mobile results
• [Feature] Google Search API: add support to extract "Refine this search" block
• [Feature] Google Search API: add support for "Things to Know" section on Desktop
• [Feature] Google Shopping API: add support for filter blocks "You might like", "People also search for"

Fixes

• Google APIs:

  • Google Search API:
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Missing statistic value from user_statistics
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Small percentage of searches still timing out
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Scrape Air quality results
    • [Fix] Google Search API: precipitation_forecast missing from Weather Answer Box
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Scraping Incorrect Number of Reviews Depending on Location/Language
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Incorrectly Parsing Sports Team Names in Sports Results
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Missing to parse answers for rich_snippet.bottom.extensions
    • [Fix] Google Search API: People Also Ask not Parsed for Some Queries
    • [Fix] Google Search API: knowledge_graph Lyrics text treated as hash key instead of hash value
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Events from knowledge_graph are extracted twice
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Remove link's title from the weather value in knowledge_graph
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Extract author for each tweet in twitter_results
    • [Fix] Google Search API: Missing inline images result
    • [Fix] Google Search API: hl parameter has no effect on search results' language
    • [Fix] Google Search API: link and gps_coordinates not parsed for local_map for some mobile searches
    • [Fix] Google Search API: sitelinks -> expanded of organic_results mistaken for carousel for some mobile searches
  • Google Maps API:
    • [Fix] Google Maps Reviews API: Rating Not Returned in Response
  • Google Shopping Results API:
    • [Fix] Google Shopping Results API: Product_IDs of Some Products Not Returned
    • [Fix] Google Shopping API: Location Parameters Ignored for Some Searches
    • [Fix] Google Shopping API: Searches are getting timed out
    • [Fix] Google Shopping API: Scrape filter type and you might like items
  • Google Local Results API:
    • [Fix] Google Local Services: Results Served from Cache even when q is Changed
    • [Fix] Google Local Services: Some locations returning empty results
    • [Fix] Google Local Results API: address and category are not extracted correctly
    • [Fix] Google Local API: Support for Mobile devices
  • Google Product API:
    • [Fix] Google Product API: Pagination for Reviews not Working

• Bing Search API:

  • [Fix] Bing Search API: Scrape inline shopping result
  • [Fix] Bing Search API: links - > website not parsed for local_results
  • [Fix] Bing Search API: thumbnail of ads not parsed
  • [Fix] Bing Search API: title contains link for organic_results in mobile

• Yahoo Search API:

  • [Fix] Yahoo Search API: more_locations_link on local_results not parsed
  • [Fix] Yahoo Search API: rating on local_results not parsed
  • [Fix] Yahoo Search API: thumbnail of local_results not parsed

• Ebay Search API:

  • [Fix] Ebay Search API: Product Thumbnails not Returned in Response

• Yandex Search API:

  • [Fix] Yandex Search API: Domains other than yandex.com are giving bad response times

• Playground:

  • [Fix] Playground: Export to Code Adds a q Parameter to Google Lens Searches

• Walmart Search API:

  • [Fix] Walmart Search API: Empty variant_swatches -> swatch_image_url returned in organic_results

• Playgrund:

  • [Fix] HTML is not properly loaded on some engines

Projects built with SerpApi:

• agentchain
• seo-position-tracker

API Updates

[Feature] Google Search API: add support to expanded "Top Sites"

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Maps Reviews API: add support to scrape reviews rating

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Local Results API: now sponsored (ad) results is a separate JSON key from regular, organic results

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Shopping API: add support for "Top Features" section

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Search Results: add support to "Open Hours" answer box

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Knowledge Graph API: add support to extract "Average cost after aid", "Graduation rate", and "Acceptance rate"

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Shopping API: add support for "Others searched for" Block

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Shopping API: add support to extract price in the parentheses

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Home Depot API: add support to search by SKU / Product ID

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Search API: add support to a new "Things To Know" section in mobile results

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Search API: add support to extract "Refine this search" block

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Search API: add support for "Things to Know" section on Desktop

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

[Feature] Google Shopping API: add support for filter blocks "You might like", "People also search for"

Try in the Playground | Documentation | Public Roadmap Issue

Conclusion

If you notice any bugs or possible improvements, then you can directly improve the product by creating a issue in the SerpApi Public Roadmap.

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