Google AI Mode Scraper — Conversational AI Search Results as JSON

Scrape Google AI Mode — the conversational, chat-style search experience (the "AI Mode" tab) — at scale. For every query you get the full AI answer, any comparison tables as structured JSON, and every cited source with its position. The first dedicated AI Mode scraper on Apify.

AI Mode is where Google is moving search: full AI answers with far fewer outbound clicks, richer than AI Overviews, and increasingly the surface that decides which brands and sites get seen. If you do SEO, GEO/AEO, market research, or competitive intel, this is the data you're currently missing.

What you get per query

{
    "query": "best project management software",
    "countryCode": "us",
    "languageCode": "en",
    "aiModePresent": true,
    "answerText": "The best project management software depends on your team size and workflow...",
    "textBlocks": [ { "type": "text", "text": "..." } ],
    "tables": [
        {
            "headers": ["Platform", "Best For", "Starting Price"],
            "rows": [["Asana", "Cross-team work management", "Free; $10.99/user/mo"], ["monday.com", "Visual workflows", "$12/user/mo"]]
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        { "position": 1, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/projectmanagement/...", "domain": "reddit.com", "title": "What PM software do you actually use?", "location": "sources_panel" }
    ],
    "citationCount": 18
}

The comparison tables alone are gold: AI Mode loves building "Platform / Best For / Price" tables for commercial queries — structured competitive positioning, straight from Google's AI, as clean JSON.

Use cases

• GEO / AEO research — see which sources Google's most advanced AI surface actually cites in your niche.
• Brand monitoring — is your product in the answer? In the comparison table? Cited as a source? (For automated brand/competitor analysis, share-of-voice and gap keywords across AI Overviews and AI Mode, use the companion Actor: Google AI Overview Brand Monitor.)
• Content strategy — study the exact structure AI Mode prefers (tables, lists, sources) and shape your content to match.
• Datasets & research — track how conversational search answers evolve over time, per country and language.

How it works

Real browser sessions through residential proxies in your target country (default), with automatic session rotation, block detection, and retries. AI Mode streams its answers; the Actor waits for the answer to fully materialize before parsing. Works across countries/languages where AI Mode is available.

Pricing

Pay per query scraped — full answer + tables + all citations included. No subscription. Failed queries are not charged.

Scheduling & integrations

Run on a schedule (Console → Schedules), from the API/SDKs, from n8n/Make/Zapier, or as an MCP tool so your AI agents can query AI Mode directly.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads publicly available search result pages — no login, no personal data. Standard SEO-industry practice.

Why do some queries return aiModePresent: false? Google doesn't serve AI Mode answers for every query in every region; the Actor reports it honestly (and you can re-check on a schedule).

How is this different from an AI Overview scraper? AI Overviews are the summary box on the classic results page. AI Mode is the full conversational tab (udm=50) with richer answers, tables, and a different citation set — brands are often cited in one but not the other. This Actor covers AI Mode; the companion Actor covers both plus brand analysis.

What exactly is Google AI Mode? Google's end-to-end AI search experience, rolled out from 2025: instead of ten blue links with a summary on top, the whole results page is a conversational answer (powered by Gemini) with inline sources, follow-up questions, and comparison tables. It has its own tab in Google Search and its own URL parameter (udm=50).

Do AI Mode citations differ from AI Overview citations? Massively. In our own 25-keyword study the two surfaces shared only ~16% of cited sources. If you're measuring "does Google's AI cite us?", you need both surfaces.

Can I track answers over time? Yes — schedule the Actor and each run appends dated rows, giving you a time series of how the answer, tables, and cited sources for each keyword evolve.

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More AI-search tools from this developer: apify.com/leohryndev — AI Overview Brand Monitor (multi-engine), Brave AI Answer Scraper, and more.

Keywords: Google AI Mode scraper, AI Mode API, scrape Google AI Mode, udm=50, conversational search results, Google AI answers JSON, GEO tool, AEO, AI search citations, generative engine optimization.