Google Search Results Scraper

Type one Google query and get the results page back as rows: organic listings with their rank, the ads above them, the People Also Ask questions and the related searches at the bottom. You pick the country, the language, the Google domain and how many pages to follow.

The url on an organic row is the address of the page itself. Now and then Google won't give one up. That row still arrives, with url and domain set to null, and it is not billed.

Input	One Google query, operators like site:, quotes and OR included
Output	One row per organic result, ad, People Also Ask entry or related search
Ceiling	100 rows per run, across up to 10 pages
Account needed	None, and no Google API key
Price	$1.00 per 1,000 organic results on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. Ads, People Also Ask and related searches come free. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 5,000

🔍 What Google Search Results Scraper does

It runs your query against the Google domain you name, reads the results page, and turns it into four kinds of row.

Organic rows carry the title, the page's address, the displayed source, the snippet and the rank. Ad rows carry the same shape for the paid results Google marks as such, without the advertiser's address: Google prints only its own click link for an ad and we don't follow it, so url and domain are null there. People Also Ask rows carry the question, and the answer text when Google puts it in the page. Related search rows carry the phrases printed at the bottom.

Set maxPages above 1 and it follows Google's own Next link, page by page, stopping when your row limit is reached or Google runs out of pages. Duplicate links are dropped across pages, so a listing that appears twice arrives once.

📋 What data you get from each Google search result

What you get	Field
Which kind of row it is	type
The listing: title, the page's address and its host, the source Google displays, the snippet	title, url, domain, displayedUrl, snippet
Position within its page, and which page	rank, page
People Also Ask: the question and the answer text	question, answer
The search and its settings, on every row	query, countryCode, language, googleDomain
When the page was read	fetchedAt

▶️ How to scrape Google search results

1. Open Google Search Results Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Put your search in Search query, replacing the example.
3. Set Maximum results. Ten is a sensible first run.
4. Change Google domain, Country code and Language if you want another country's view, then click Start.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

An empty query writes one labelled sample row and stops, so you can see the shape first.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Google search results?

$1.00 per 1,000 organic results on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $0.99 on Starter, $0.98 on Scale and $0.97 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 5,000 organic results.

Only organic results are billed. Ads, People Also Ask entries and related searches arrive free beside them. maxResults caps all four kinds together, so it also caps what a run can bill: set it to 10 and ten organic results is the most you can be charged for, however many pages get read.

The sample row, every diagnostic row, an organic result that came without its address and a query that finds nothing are not billed.

📥 What you give it

{
  "query": "best running shoes site:runnersworld.com",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "googleDomain": "google.com",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxPages": 2
}

Field	Default	What it is
query	none, the box starts at best running shoes	Your search. site:, intitle:, quoted phrases, OR and minus terms all work.
googleDomain	google.com	The Google host, without https://. google.co.uk, google.ca and the rest are fine.
countryCode	US	Two-letter country, sent as Google's gl.
language	en	Interface language, sent as Google's hl.
maxResults	10	Total rows, 1 to 100, counting all four kinds together. It is also the most a run can bill you.
maxPages	1	Follow Google's pagination this far, 1 to 10.
includeAds	on	Return the paid results Google marks as ads.
includePeopleAlsoAsk	on	Return the People Also Ask questions, with answer text when the page carries it.
includeRelatedSearches	on	Return the related phrases from the foot of the page. Read the limit below first.
enableProxyFallback	on	On by default. Switched off, runs can come back with no results.
proxyConfiguration	leave it alone	Optional. Your own servers are used exactly as given.

📤 What you get back

A real organic row from a run on 11 October 2026:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "organic",
  "title": "Best of Road Running Shoes",
  "url": "https://believeintherun.com/shoe-reviews/type/best-of-road/",
  "domain": "believeintherun.com",
  "displayedUrl": "Believe in the Run",
  "snippet": "Independent, run-tested reviews of running shoes, Popular Brands New Balance Nike Asics Hoka Saucony Puma Adidas. These are the Best On Running Shoes Right Now ...",
  "rank": 4,
  "page": 1,
  "query": "best running shoes",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "googleDomain": "google.com",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-11T18:43:56.264Z"
}

Field	How to read it
url	The page's own address. null on a result Google gave no address for, and that row is not billed.
domain	The host of url, without www.. null when url is.
rank	Position within its own page, so page 2 starts counting again.
answer	People Also Ask rows only, and usually null: on our test runs none of the 12 questions came with answer text.
query	The search you typed. On a related_search row this overwrites the related phrase, which survives only inside url.
snippet	Google's own description text, trailing Read more and all.

🧾 Reading the output

Four kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Billed as a result
An organic result	ok: true, a type of organic and a url	yes
An organic result Google gave no address for	a type of organic and url set to null	no
An ad, a People Also Ask entry or a related search	ok: true and a type of ad, people_also_ask or related_search	no
The sample row	_sample: true	no
A diagnostic	ok: false and an errorCode	no

Filter on ok being true with _sample absent. For the billed results alone, keep the organic rows that have a url.

Code	What it means
NO_RESULTS	The page loaded and nothing usable was on it. A query with no matches lands here.
NOT_SERVED	This search page was not served this run. Re-run it later. Until 12 October 2026 this code was called BLOCKED or JS_REQUIRED.
RATE_LIMITED	Google answered with a rate limit. Wait and re-run.
NETWORK	Google was unreachable or answered badly. A googleDomain that is not a real Google host also lands here rather than saying the value is wrong.
TIME_LIMIT	The run got close to its time limit and stopped on its own. The results delivered before that are complete. Give the run more time, or ask for fewer pages, to get the rest.
INCOMPLETE	Google did not return a later page (failedPage says which). The results of the pages before it are delivered and billed as usual; nothing is billed for the missing pages.

A diagnostic never fails the run, except one: when the time limit stopped the run before any result came back, the run ends as failed, with a TIME_LIMIT row saying so.

The Overview table hides answer, displayedUrl and the diagnostic fields, so a run that produced only a diagnostic looks almost blank there. Switch the dataset to JSON to read it.

💡 What people use it for

• Tracking where a page ranks for a keyword, week by week, with rank and page already split out.
• Pulling the People Also Ask questions for a topic to see what the audience actually asks.
• Checking which advertisers sit above the organic results for a commercial term in one country.
• Running the same query across google.com, google.co.uk and google.de to compare what each country sees.

From a seed word to who ranks for it, in three runs:

1. Run Keyword Autocomplete Scraper on a seed with expandQuestions on, and keep the suggestion values you care about.
2. Put the best few into Google Trends Scraper's searchTerms with compareKeywords on, to see which one is growing.
3. Run the winner here as query to see who ranks for it today.

🚧 What it does not do

• Related searches collapse into one row. Measured on a page carrying nine related phrases: one related_search row came out, and its query held the search that was typed, not the phrase. The phrase is only readable inside url. Turn includeRelatedSearches off if you do not need it.
• With a small maxResults, ads are taken first. Cap a run at 5 on an advert-heavy term and ads can use most of the budget. Switch includeAds off if you only want organic rows.
• Four kinds of row, and no more. No local pack, no shopping carousel, no news box, no knowledge panel.
• Ads and People Also Ask are spotted from how Google marks them up, so a layout change on Google's side can leave some of them out until the reading catches up.
• One query per run. Feed a keyword list by scheduling or looping runs.
• Rows are a snapshot of that page at that moment. Rankings move daily.
• It is not an official Google tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which Google scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
The web results page for a keyword: organic, ads, People Also Ask	This one
What a search box suggests as people type	Keyword Autocomplete Scraper
Interest in a keyword over time and by region	Google Trends Scraper
News articles with the publisher's real link	Google News Scraper
Image results and the pages they sit on	Google Images Scraper
The ads a brand runs on Google	Google Ads Transparency Scraper
The same job on Yandex, by region	Yandex Search Engine Scraper
Businesses and places	Google Maps Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Google API key to scrape Google search results?

No. Nothing to apply for, no quota to watch.

Can I search more than one keyword at a time?

Not in one run. query takes a single search. Use a schedule or a loop for a list.

Why don't the rankings match what I see on Google?

Google tailors results to where you are, your language and your history. The run sees what a logged-out visitor sees for the googleDomain, countryCode and language you set. To compare, search in a private browser window with the same Google domain.

Why did I get fewer rows than maxResults?

Google decides how much it prints. A narrow query, or one with site: on a small domain, often runs out before your limit does.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/google-search-results-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping Google search results legal?

These are public search results. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the query and the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.