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February 2025: Update

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Today, we're thrilled to update you on some of the newest enhancements and give you a sneak peek into what’s coming next.

​Naver Search API​


The Naver Search API has joined our expanding SERP API family alongside Google, Bing, Baidu, and more. It delivers rich data, including:
  • Organic results
  • Ads
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Local results
  • Inline images
  • Inline shopping
  • Inline videos
  • Related questions
  • Top stories
  • Blogs
  • Questions and answers
  • Discussions and forums
To simplify integration, the JSON response keys are consistent across all our supported SERP engines.

​Google Trends Trending Now API​




This release deprecates ​Google Trends Trending Daily API​ and replaces Google Trends Trending Realtime API.

The Google Trends Trending Now API provides real-time trending search topics. It provides:
  • Trending search queries
  • Search volume estimates
  • Percentage increases in interest
  • Associated categories
  • Trending locations
  • Related keywords
  • Active trend status & start date

You can track trends across different timeframes, including the past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, and 7 days. Whether you're monitoring breaking news, analyzing search interest, or integrating trends into your app, this API gives you a clear picture of what people are searching for right now.

Google Requires Javascript for Search Results


As of January 16, 2025, Google now requires JavaScript to display search results. This change impacts users with JavaScript disabled, including those relying on accessibility tools or using certain SEO rank-checking solutions. Google claims this move will improve search result quality and protect against bots and spam.
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This update caused disruptions across the SERP API industry, affecting most providers. SearchApi, however, is fully equipped to handle JavaScript-based scraping. Our system integrates headless browser technologies and advanced proxy management to ensure reliable, high-performance data delivery, even under these new constraints.

🔧 Engine Improvements:


Google Search API

  • Added knowledge_graph.is_entity_closed and operational_status to handle permanently and temporarily closed cases.
  • Added support for a new layout for organic_results.rich_snippets.extensions.
  • Added a check to ensure pagination.next is not returned if the next page has no results.
  • Added new parsing field - ​perspectives​.
  • Fixed knowledge_graph.description and knowledge_graph.open_hours selectors.
  • Fixed organic_results.video selectors.
  • Fixed local_ads selectors.
  • Fixed things_to_do selectors.

Bing Search API

  • Added knowledge_graph field for business entities.
  • Added default values for request parameters: language=en and country_code=US.
  • Fixed tracking_link decoding in specific cases.
  • Fixed search_information.total_results extraction.
  • Fixed related_questions selectors.
  • Fixed about_this_result selectors.
  • Fixed knowledge_graph.website and knowledge_graph.open_hours selectors.

DuckDuckgo Search API

  • Added validation for the maximum allowed characters in the q request parameter.

Yahoo Search API

  • Added a fix for ads.assets.structured_snippet.
  • Added a fix for inline_images extraction.
  • Added knowledge_graph for business entities.

YouTube Search API

  • Added a fix for results starting at position=2 instead of position=1.

Google Lens API


Google Shopping API

  • Fixed the issue where shopping_results.thumbnail would not return any images.
  • Fixed typo shopping_ads.installment.extracted_cost_per_moth and shopping_results.installment.extracted_cost_per_moth, corrected it to extracted_cost_per_month. Both cases are currently supported, but extracted_cost_per_moth will be removed next month.

Google Product API

  • Fixed typo in offers.installment, correcting extracted_cost_per_moth to extracted_cost_per_month. Both cases are currently supported but extracted_cost_per_moth will be removed next month.

Google Product Reviews API

  • Added the new filters key and the filter_token request parameter.

Google Images API

  • Fixed pagination in the unique cases. 

Google Jobs API

  • Fixed pagination when the location request parameter is used.

Google Flights API

  • Added more cases to booking_options.baggage_prices.

⏭️ What's coming next?


  • Google Flights Calendar API
  • Google Hotels API
  • Enhanced Speed plans ⚡
  • Yandex Search API
  • Google AI Overview
  • Google Ads Transparency API
  • Base64 image hosting on our side. This will shorten the LLM context if you want to use raw JSON responses.
  • Infrastructure upgrades to improve scaling and lower latency.

Stay tuned for more updates. We're always working to improve SearchApi for you.