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POST /v1/search · type=web

Page titles, links, snippets and result positions.

curl "https://api.serqo.io/v1/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SERP_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "q": "openai",
  "engine": "google",
  "type": "web",
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en"
}'
{
  "success": true,
  "requestId": "req_example",
  "data": {
    "engine": "google",
    "type": "web",
    "query": { "q": "openai", "gl": "us", "hl": "en" },
    "searchInformation": { "totalResults": null, "timeTakenMs": null, "displayed": null },
    "results": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI",
        "url": "https://openai.com/",
        "displayedUrl": "openai.com",
        "snippet": "We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems.",
        "sitelinks": [
          { "title": "About", "url": "https://openai.com/about/" },
          { "title": "Introducing ChatGPT", "url": "https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/" },
          { "title": "API Platform", "url": "https://openai.com/api/" }
        ]
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - Wikipedia",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI",
        "displayedUrl": "en.wikipedia.org",
        "date": "4 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California."
      },
      {
        "position": 3,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - X",
        "url": "https://x.com/OpenAI",
        "displayedUrl": "x.com",
        "date": "16 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."
      }
    ],
    "features": {
      "relatedSearches": [
        { "query": "OpenAI chat" },
        { "query": "OpenAI login" },
        { "query": "OpenAI ChatGPT" }
      ]
    },
    "pagination": { "page": 1, "start": 0, "hasNext": true, "nextStart": 10 },
    "meta": { "elapsedMs": null }
  },
  "meta": { "cache": null }
}
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{
  "success": true,
  "requestId": "req_example",
  "data": {
    "engine": "google",
    "type": "web",
    "query": {
      "q": "openai",
      "gl": "us",
      "hl": "en",
      "start": 0
    },
    "searchInformation": {
      "totalResults": null,
      "timeTakenMs": null,
      "displayed": null
    },
    "results": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI",
        "url": "https://openai.com/",
        "displayedUrl": "openai.com",
        "domain": "openai.com",
        "snippet": "We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems.",
        "sitelinks": [
          {
            "title": "About",
            "url": "https://openai.com/about/"
          },
          {
            "title": "Introducing ChatGPT",
            "url": "https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/"
          },
          {
            "title": "Livestreams",
            "url": "https://openai.com/live/"
          },
          {
            "title": "News",
            "url": "https://openai.com/news/"
          },
          {
            "title": "Status",
            "url": "https://status.openai.com/"
          },
          {
            "title": "API Platform",
            "url": "https://openai.com/api/"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - Wikipedia",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI",
        "displayedUrl": "en.wikipedia.org",
        "domain": "en.wikipedia.org",
        "date": "4 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California."
      },
      {
        "position": 3,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - X",
        "url": "https://x.com/OpenAI",
        "displayedUrl": "x.com",
        "domain": "x.com",
        "date": "16 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We're hiring: https://t.co/dJGr6LgzPA."
      },
      {
        "position": 4,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai",
        "displayedUrl": "www.linkedin.com",
        "domain": "linkedin.com",
        "date": "5 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity."
      },
      {
        "position": 5,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - YouTube",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI",
        "displayedUrl": "www.youtube.com",
        "domain": "youtube.com",
        "date": "2 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. ...more OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general ..."
      },
      {
        "position": 6,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI - Reddit",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/",
        "displayedUrl": "www.reddit.com",
        "domain": "reddit.com",
        "date": "Dec 11, 2015",
        "snippet": "r/OpenAI: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. OpenAI's mission is to create safe and powerful AI that benefits all of humanity."
      },
      {
        "position": 7,
        "type": "organic",
        "title": "OpenAI (@openai) • Instagram photos and videos",
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/openai/?hl=en",
        "displayedUrl": "www.instagram.com",
        "domain": "instagram.com",
        "date": "3 hours ago",
        "snippet": "OpenAI's mission is to ensure artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Proud parent of @chatgpt and @openaidevs. Follow. Message. Accounts you might ..."
      }
    ],
    "features": {
      "topStories": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Introducing dots",
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "1 day ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "DevDay 2026 Recap",
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "7 hours ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "OpenAI Marketplace",
          "url": "https://openai.com/business/marketplace/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "9 hours ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Register your interest in Private Intelligence",
          "url": "https://openai.com/form/private-intelligence-interest/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "9 hours ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Addendum to GPT-6 Astra System Card: GPT-6.1 Sol",
          "url": "https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-1-sol",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "9 hours ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 6,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Towards safety cases for frontier AI training",
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/towards-safety-cases-for-frontier-ai-training/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "21 hours ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 7,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Using your ChatGPT plan in other apps and sites",
          "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001542-using-your-chatgpt-plan-in-other-apps-and-sites",
          "source": "OpenAI Help Center",
          "date": "22 hours ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 8,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna",
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "1 week ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 9,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra",
          "url": "https://developers.openai.com/blog/rethinking-skills-and-prompts-for-gpt-6-astra",
          "source": "OpenAI Developers",
          "date": "2 weeks ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        },
        {
          "position": 10,
          "type": "news",
          "title": "Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5",
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/",
          "source": "OpenAI",
          "date": "3 weeks ago",
          "extensions": {
            "group": "Latest from openai.com"
          }
        }
      ],
      "relatedSearches": [
        {
          "query": "OpenAI chat"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI login"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI ChatGPT"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI API"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI - wikipedia"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI app"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI download"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI video"
        },
        {
          "query": "OpenAI API key"
        }
      ],
      "knowledgePanel": {
        "title": "OpenAI",
        "subtitle": "Generative AI company",
        "description": "OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer series of large language models....",
        "attributes": {
          "CEO": "Sam Altman (Nov 29, 2023–)",
          "Founded": "November 20, 2015, San Francisco, CA",
          "CFO": "Sarah Friar",
          "President": "Greg Brockman"
        },
        "sources": [
          {
            "title": "Wikipedia",
            "url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "pagination": {
      "page": 1,
      "start": 0,
      "hasNext": true,
      "nextStart": 10
    },
    "meta": {
      "elapsedMs": null
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "cache": null
  }
}

Engines and search types

Google 9 search types: web, images, videos, news, shopping, forums, books, maps, patents. Bing 5 search types: web, news, images, videos, maps.

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Find pages and news for a topic, with links back to the sources.

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Collect result positions for selected keywords, countries and languages.

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  2. Try a query

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    Set SERP_API_KEY to your key and run the request example above.

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  • · Access to supported Google and Bing search types
  • · 1 requests / second
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  • · 7,500 credits each month
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  • · 50 requests / second
  • · Unused credits carry over
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$49 / month For apps with steady search traffic, with a larger monthly allowance and a higher request limit.
  • · 25,000 credits each month
  • · Access to supported Google and Bing search types
  • · 100 requests / second
  • · Unused credits carry over
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$299 / month For services with high search volumes, with the largest monthly allowance and highest request limit.
  • · 250,000 credits each month
  • · Access to supported Google and Bing search types
  • · 200 requests / second
  • · Unused credits carry over
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Common questions

What does a search return?

Web results include titles, links, snippets and positions. Other search types return details suited to their content, such as image URLs or place ratings.

When are credits used?

Successful searches consume credits. The cost depends on the search type, engine, country and cache status. Failed searches and timeouts do not consume credits.

What happens when my credits run out?

New searches are rejected when your available balance cannot cover the request.

Do I need an SDK?

No. Use any HTTP client, or follow the JavaScript and Python examples in the docs.

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