Google Search Scraper

An Apify actor for scraping Google search results with customizable parameters. The actor extracts URLs, titles, and descriptions from Google search results pages.

Features

• Scrape Google search results based on your search terms
• Customize the number of results to retrieve
• Set language and region preferences
• Enable or disable Google's SafeSearch
• Filter out duplicate URLs
• Uses Apify's Google SERP proxy, so no CAPTCHAs or blocked pages to deal with
• Resolves Google's /goto redirect links to the real destination URL
• Real-time processing: Results are pushed to the dataset as they are found, without waiting for all results to be collected

Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
searchTerm	String	Required. The search query to look for on Google.
numResults	Integer	Number of search results to retrieve. Default is 10.
lang	String	Language code for the search results (e.g., 'en', 'es', 'fr'). Default is 'en'.
safe	String	SafeSearch setting: 'active' or 'off'. Default is 'active'.
region	String	Region code for the search results (e.g., 'us', 'uk', 'de').
start	Integer	Starting index for the search results. Default is 0.
unique	Boolean	Whether to filter out duplicate URLs. Default is true.

Output

The actor stores its results in the default dataset, with each item having the following structure:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "title": "Example Title of the Search Result",
  "description": "A snippet or description of the search result as shown by Google..."
}

Usage Examples

Basic Example

{
  "searchTerm": "apify web scraping"
}

Advanced Example

{
  "searchTerm": "machine learning tutorials",
  "numResults": 50,
  "lang": "en",
  "safe": "active",
  "region": "us",
  "start": 0,
  "unique": true
}

Proxy Usage

The actor fetches every results page through Apify's Google SERP proxy. If that proxy is unavailable on your account, the run fails immediately instead of returning blocked pages.

Limitations

• Google may detect and block automated scraping attempts. The actor implements measures to minimize this risk, but successful operation cannot be guaranteed in all cases.
• The structure of Google's search results page may change over time, which could affect the actor's ability to extract data correctly.
• Google returns at most about 10 organic results per page, so a request for 100 results usually yields 80-95 after duplicates are removed.
• If Google returns no results, no row is added to the dataset; the search term and the reason are listed in the FAILED_INPUTS record of the run's key-value store instead. If Google does not return the page at all, the run fails and writes the same record.
• The actor never fetches more results than your run's spending limit can pay for.

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