The 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 direct image uploads for the Google Lens API

We've expanded our Google Lens API with a new image_id parameter, enabling developers to perform visual searches by directly uploading local image files rather than hosting them on public URLs. By submitting an image file to our Image API and generating an image_id, you can seamlessly pass this ID into your Google Lens API requests to retrieve visual matches, product details, exact matches, and extracted text in a structured format. This eliminates the need for external cloud storage and simplifies file handling, making it ideal for e-commerce visual search tools, AI-powered product recognition engines, digital asset management systems, and automated inventory cataloging workflows that process direct user uploads. Details

📑 Full List of Updates

Google Ads API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract multiple fields from the carousel section. Details

Google News Results API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API was returning empty results for some searches. Details
• We have fixed the issue where the API was timing out when tbs parameter was being used. Details

Instagram Profile API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API was returning empty results for some searches. Details

Tripadvisor Place API

Improvements

• We have improved the success rate and response time of the API. Details

Google AI Overview API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API would return empty results for some searches. Details

DuckDuckGo Search API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.

Google Shopping API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.

Google Patents Details API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API would merge the original and translated text into one field, instead of extracting them separately. Details

Google Lens API

Features

• We have added support for extracting organic_results and short_videos sections. Details

Google Finance API

Bug fixes

• We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract graph and summary results. Details

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