The past week at SerpApi brought new APIs, features, expanded scraping capabilities, steady improvements to existing APIs, and a range of important bug fixes.

⭐️ Top Updates

Introducing the new YouTube Channel API

We're excited to announce our new YouTube Channel API, allowing developers to scrape content from any YouTube channel by channel_id — either a channel handle (youtube.com/@channel_id) or a raw channel ID. Use the tab parameter to retrieve a channel's videos, shorts, live streams, podcasts, playlists, or community posts, with pagination and sorting support. This is ideal for content research, competitor monitoring, media analytics, and any workflow that needs structured data from a creator's full catalog rather than individual video lookups. Details

📑 Full List of Updates

Google Search API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where searches using tbs=li:1 would intermittently time out or fail after retrying for up to 90 seconds. Details
• We have fixed the issue where some returned URLs contained Unicode escape sequences instead of standard URL characters. Details
• We have fixed the issue where relative /goto redirect links (without a domain) were not resolved to their final destination URL. Details

Yahoo! Search API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where inline_images elements were missing from results on current page layouts. Details

Instagram Profile API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API was not returning results for profile searches. Details

Google News API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API had a low success rate and high average response time. Details

Google News Light API

Changes

• The site: search operator is no longer supported in query strings, since Google has discontinued it for this engine; use the Google News API instead.

Google Flights Deals API

Features

• We have added a search parameter to filter results. Details

Bug fixes

• We have fixed an issue that could cause some requests to fail with a server error while parsing ad details.

Google Immersive Product API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed an issue that was returning unrelated product data.

💬 We'd Love Your Feedback

Your input helps us improve. If something's not working as expected, or if there's a feature you'd love to see, let us know. You can reach us at any time at contact@serpapi.com. Or you can open an issue on our Public Roadmap.

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