💎 Gemini Search Scraper

🚀 Export Gemini answers in seconds. Send any list of prompts and get back the full answer, every source Gemini cites, which sentence cites which source, every page it searched, and a visibility check for your brand. In our cloud tests 300 prompts in a row came back with 300 answers, at a median of 12.5 seconds per answer and 10 or more answers in parallel.

This Actor asks Gemini your prompts the way a logged-out visitor does on gemini.google.com. No Google account, no cookies, no API key and no browser: it talks to the same endpoint the Gemini web app uses, so the answer is what people actually see, with Gemini's own web search, not a model call with your own key. Each prompt is its own chat, so one prompt never colours the next.

Every row has 20 fields: the answer as plain text and as Markdown, the model that answered, the location Gemini saw for the visitor, the pages Gemini searched, the cited sources with title, URL, domain, publisher and snippet, claim-level citations, and a brand check for any brand or domain you list. In our last 300-prompt run, 84% of the answers cited sources (2.6 on average, up to 7) and Gemini searched 6.9 pages per prompt on average (up to 24).

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
SEO and GEO specialists	Track which pages Gemini cites for your keywords
Brand and PR teams	See how Gemini describes your brand and your rivals
Content marketers	Find the sources that win AI citations in your niche
Agencies	Report AI search visibility to clients, prompt by prompt
Market researchers	Collect Gemini answers at scale for analysis
Data teams	Build datasets of AI answers with their evidence

📋 What the Gemini Search Scraper does

1. Takes a list of prompts, one per entry.
2. Sends each one to Gemini as a fresh logged-out chat, several at a time.
3. Reads the complete answer from the data Gemini returns: text, Markdown, cited sources, claim-level citations and the pages it searched.
4. Checks each brand or domain you list: named in the answer or not, how many times, where it first appears, in which order among your list, whether it is cited, and whether Gemini read it while searching.
5. Writes one row per prompt, and optionally one extra row per cited source. Failed prompts are retried on a new connection and never charged.

💡 Why it matters: more and more people ask an AI before they ask a search engine. The answer they read names a handful of brands and cites a handful of pages. If your brand or your content is not in that answer, you are invisible at the moment of decision, and the only way to know is to ask the same prompts at scale and keep the evidence.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

📊 Output

Each dataset row is one prompt and its Gemini answer. 20 columns per row.

Field	Type	Description
🏷 rowType	string	answer for the answer row (source for the optional per-source rows)
🔎 query	string	The prompt you sent
💬 answerText	string	The full answer as plain text
📝 answerMarkdown	string	The same answer in Markdown, with headings, lists, bold and tables
🔢 answerWordCount	number	Words in the answer
🤖 model	string	The Gemini model that answered (logged-out visitors get 3.5 Flash-Lite)
📍 detectedLocation	string	The place Gemini localised the answer to, taken from the exit IP
🌍 detectedCountry	string	Country code of that location
🗣 language	string	Language of the answer
🌐 webSearchUsed	string	Yes when Gemini searched the web for this answer
🕸 websitesSearched	number	Pages Gemini opened while searching
🔍 searchedPages	array	Those pages: position, title, URL, domain, and whether the answer cites it
📚 sourcesCount	number	Cited sources
🏷 citedDomains	array	Unique domains of the cited sources, in citation order
🔗 sources	array	Cited sources: position, title, URL, domain, publisher, snippet, how many claims cite it
📌 citations	array	Each cited sentence of the answer with the sources that back it
🎯 trackedBrands	array	Per brand or domain you listed: mentioned, mention count, first position, mention rank, cited, cited position, searched by Gemini
⏱ responseTimeSeconds	number	Seconds Gemini took to answer
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When the row was collected
❌ error	string	Populated only on failed rows

Gemini decides by itself whether a prompt needs the web. When it answers from its own knowledge, webSearchUsed is No and searchedPages, sources and citations come back as empty arrays, never nulls. Some answers search pages without citing any of them: searchedPages still lists what Gemini read.

Real sample record

One unedited row from a cloud run on September 30, 2026, with brand tracking for HubSpot, zapier.com and Salesforce. Long arrays are shortened to their first entries here; the dataset holds all of them.

{
  "rowType": "answer",
  "query": "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
  "answerText": "When evaluating the top CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tools, market share, versatility, ease of use, and specific business needs separate the industry leaders from the rest. \n\nThe top 5 CRM tools widely recognized for their power, feature sets, and market dominance include:\n\n1. Salesforce Sales Cloud\n- Best for: Large enterprises, scalability, and deep customization.\n- Standout Feature: Its advanced AI ecosystem (Einstein Platform and Agentforce), alongside unmatched app integrations and extensibility.\n- Overview: Salesforce is the undisputed market leader. It handles complex, multi-tiered business structures with ease. While it has a steeper learning curve and higher price point, it can be entirely tailored to fit almost any workflow, making it the gold standard for enterprise-level corporations.\n2. HubSpot Smart CRM\n- Best for: Growing businesses, versatility, and ease of adoption.\n- Standout Feature: An intuitive user experience paired with robust \"Hubs\" (Marketing, Sales, Service, Operations).\n- Overview: HubSpot is famous for bridging the gap between powerful features and user-friendly design. It offers a generous free tier and scales smoothly. Its data sync capabilities and built-in AI tools make it a favorite for inbound marketing and sales-aligned teams.\n3. Zoho CRM\n- Best for: All-in-one value and budget-conscious scaling.\n- Standout Feature: Zia, Zoho’s resident AI assistant, which offers predictive insights and anomaly detection.\n- Overview: Zoho CRM provides enterprise-grade features at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. It is especially powerful if you already use other applications in the expansive Zoho ecosystem (such as books, desk, and campaigns), as they integrate seamlessly.\n4. Pipedrive\n- Best for: Small-to-midsize sales teams focused on pipeline management.\n- Standout Feature: A visual, highly intuitive drag-and-drop sales pipeline designed by salespeople, for salespeople.\n- Overview: If your primary goal is managing deals, tracking touchpoints, and keeping the sales process friction-free, Pipedrive excels. It emphasizes ease of use, fast onboarding, and powerful workflow automations without the clutter of extraneous marketing tools.\n5. Microsoft Dynamics 365\n- Best for: Businesses deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem.\n- Standout Feature: Native integration with Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, Azure).\n- Overview: Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a heavy-hitting competitor to Salesforce. It’s ideal for mid-to-large organizations that rely heavily on Microsoft products day-to-day. It offers deep data analysis, mixed CRM and ERP capabilities, and powerful enterprise security.\n\nSummary Comparison Table\n\n| CRM Tool | Best For | Standout Advantage |\n| :--- | :--- | :--- |\n| Salesforce | Large enterprises & complex workflows | Unmatched customizability & advanced AI (Einstein) |\n| HubSpot | Versatility & user experience | Easy adoption, free tier options, and marketing alignment |\n| Zoho CRM | Budget-conscious scaling & value | Feature-rich ecosystem with Zia AI |\n| Pipedrive | Visual pipeline tracking & sales focus | Extremely user-friendly interface built for deal execution |\n| Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Enterprise Microsoft 365 power users | Seamless native integration with Outlook, Teams, and Azure |\n\nAre you looking for a CRM tailored to a specific company size, industry, or budget?",
  "answerMarkdown": "When evaluating the top CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tools, market share, versatility, ease of use, and specific business needs separate the industry leaders from the rest. \n\nThe **top 5 CRM tools** widely recognized for their power, feature sets, and market dominance include:\n\n---\n\n### 1. Salesforce Sales Cloud\n* **Best for:** Large enterprises, scalability, and deep customization.\n* **Standout Feature:** Its advanced AI ecosystem (Einstein Platform and Agentforce), alongside unmatched app integrations and extensibility.\n* **Overview:** Salesforce is the undisputed market leader. It handles complex, multi-tiered business structures with ease. While it has a steeper learning curve and higher price point, it can be entirely tailored to fit almost any workflow, making it the gold standard for enterprise-level corporations.\n\n### 2. HubSpot Smart CRM\n* **Best for:** Growing businesses, versatility, and ease of adoption.\n* **Standout Feature:** An intuitive user experience paired with robust \"Hubs\" (Marketing, Sales, Service, Operations).\n* **Overview:** HubSpot is famous for bridging the gap between powerful features and user-friendly design. It offers a generous free tier and scales smoothly. Its data sync capabilities and built-in AI tools make it a favorite for inbound marketing and sales-aligned teams.\n\n### 3. Zoho CRM\n* **Best for:** All-in-one value and budget-conscious scaling.\n* **Standout Feature:** **Zia**, Zoho’s resident AI assistant, which offers predictive insights and anomaly detection.\n* **Overview:** Zoho CRM provides enterprise-grade features at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. It is especially powerful if you already use other applications in the expansive Zoho ecosystem (such as books, desk, and campaigns), as they integrate seamlessly.\n\n### 4. Pipedrive\n* **Best for:** Small-to-midsize sales teams focused on pipeline management.\n* **Standout Feature:** A visual, highly intuitive drag-and-drop sales pipeline designed by salespeople, for salespeople.\n* **Overview:** If your primary goal is managing deals, tracking touchpoints, and keeping the sales process friction-free, Pipedrive excels. It emphasizes ease of use, fast onboarding, and powerful workflow automations without the clutter of extraneous marketing tools.\n\n### 5. Microsoft Dynamics 365\n* **Best for:** Businesses deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem.\n* **Standout Feature:** Native integration with Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, Azure).\n* **Overview:** Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a heavy-hitting competitor to Salesforce. It’s ideal for mid-to-large organizations that rely heavily on Microsoft products day-to-day. It offers deep data analysis, mixed CRM and ERP capabilities, and powerful enterprise security.\n\n---\n\n### Summary Comparison Table\n\n| CRM Tool | Best For | Standout Advantage |\n| :--- | :--- | :--- |\n| **Salesforce** | Large enterprises & complex workflows | Unmatched customizability & advanced AI (Einstein) |\n| **HubSpot** | Versatility & user experience | Easy adoption, free tier options, and marketing alignment |\n| **Zoho CRM** | Budget-conscious scaling & value | Feature-rich ecosystem with Zia AI |\n| **Pipedrive** | Visual pipeline tracking & sales focus | Extremely user-friendly interface built for deal execution |\n| **Microsoft Dynamics 365** | Enterprise Microsoft 365 power users | Seamless native integration with Outlook, Teams, and Azure |\n\nAre you looking for a CRM tailored to a specific company size, industry, or budget?",
  "answerWordCount": 503,
  "model": "3.5 Flash-Lite",
  "detectedLocation": "Virginia, USA",
  "detectedCountry": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "webSearchUsed": "Yes",
  "websitesSearched": 8,
  "searchedPages": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "16 Best CRM Tools for Your Business in 2026 | Creatio",
      "url": "https://www.creatio.com/glossary/crm-tools",
      "domain": "creatio.com",
      "cited": "No"
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "The Best CRM Software We've Tested for 2026 | PCMag",
      "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-crm-software",
      "domain": "pcmag.com",
      "cited": "Yes"
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "title": "What is CRM software? 9 best CRM tools of 2026 - Zendesk",
      "url": "https://www.zendesk.com/sell/crm/",
      "domain": "zendesk.com",
      "cited": "No"
    }
  ],
  "sourcesCount": 3,
  "citedDomains": [
    "zapier.com",
    "pcmag.com",
    "larksuite.com"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "The 11 best CRM software in 2026 - Zapier",
      "url": "https://zapier.com/blog/best-crm-app/",
      "domain": "zapier.com",
      "publisher": "Zapier",
      "snippet": "The best CRM software. Salesforce Sales Cloud for extensibility. HubSpot for versatility. Zoho CRM for all-in-one value. Pipedrive for ease of use. Ontraport fo...",
      "citedClaims": 10
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "The Best CRM Software We've Tested for 2026 | PCMag",
      "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-crm-software",
      "domain": "pcmag.com",
      "publisher": "PCMag",
      "snippet": "For example, you can adjust the data you see on your dashboard when you log in. Zoho users: If you already use other products within the Zoho portfolio, Zoho C...",
      "citedClaims": 1
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "title": "16 Best CRM Tools & Examples for Every Category (2026 Review)",
      "url": "https://www.larksuite.com/en_us/blog/crm-tools",
      "domain": "larksuite.com",
      "publisher": "Lark",
      "snippet": "The best CRM tools for 2026: Comparison table ; Best sales-focused CRM​. Pipedrive​. Visual sales pipeline management​ ; Best marketing CRM​. ActiveCampaign​.",
      "citedClaims": 1
    }
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "text": "Large enterprises, scalability, and deep customization.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "title": "The 11 best CRM software in 2026 - Zapier",
          "url": "https://zapier.com/blog/best-crm-app/",
          "domain": "zapier.com",
          "publisher": "Zapier"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Its advanced AI ecosystem (Einstein Platform and Agentforce), alongside unmatched app integrations and extensibility.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "title": "The 11 best CRM software in 2026 - Zapier",
          "url": "https://zapier.com/blog/best-crm-app/",
          "domain": "zapier.com",
          "publisher": "Zapier"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Growing businesses, versatility, and ease of adoption.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "title": "The 11 best CRM software in 2026 - Zapier",
          "url": "https://zapier.com/blog/best-crm-app/",
          "domain": "zapier.com",
          "publisher": "Zapier"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "trackedBrands": [
    {
      "brand": "HubSpot",
      "mentioned": "Yes",
      "mentionCount": 3,
      "firstMentionAtChar": 821,
      "cited": "No",
      "citedPosition": "N/A",
      "searchedByGemini": "No",
      "mentionRank": 2
    },
    {
      "brand": "zapier.com",
      "mentioned": "No",
      "mentionCount": 0,
      "firstMentionAtChar": "N/A",
      "cited": "Yes",
      "citedPosition": 1,
      "searchedByGemini": "Yes",
      "mentionRank": "N/A"
    },
    {
      "brand": "Salesforce",
      "mentioned": "Yes",
      "mentionCount": 4,
      "firstMentionAtChar": 288,
      "cited": "No",
      "citedPosition": "N/A",
      "searchedByGemini": "No",
      "mentionRank": 1
    }
  ],
  "responseTimeSeconds": 16.8,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T18:42:19.194Z",
  "error": null
}

With One row per cited source on, every cited source also gets its own row:

{
  "rowType": "source",
  "query": "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "The 11 best CRM software in 2026 - Zapier",
  "url": "https://zapier.com/blog/best-crm-app/",
  "domain": "zapier.com",
  "publisher": "Zapier",
  "snippet": "The best CRM software. Salesforce Sales Cloud for extensibility. HubSpot for versatility. Zoho CRM for all-in-one value. Pipedrive for ease of use. Ontraport fo...",
  "citedClaims": 10,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T18:42:19.266Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
The real Gemini answer	Read from the same stream the Gemini web app renders, including its web search. Not a chat-completion call with someone's API key.
Claim-level citations	Which sentence cites which source, not only a list of links at the bottom.
Pages searched, not only cited	See every page Gemini read, and which of them made it into the answer.
GEO checks built in	List your brand and your rivals: mentioned, how often, in which order, cited, read.
Fast and light	No browser: ten or more prompts in parallel, about 13 seconds per answer.
Nothing to maintain	No login, no cookies, no key. Failed prompts are retried and never charged.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

The comparison uses each Actor's public Store page and price on September 30, 2026.

Feature	ParseForge	apify/gemini-search-scraper
Answer as text and Markdown	Both	Text only
Cited sources with snippet	Yes	Yes
Claim-level citations	Yes	No
Pages searched but not cited	Yes, flagged	A "more" list, unflagged
Brand and domain tracking	Yes, with order	No
One row per source	Optional	No
Country of the answer	Follows the exit IP	Country input

Ceilings, stated plainly: logged-out visitors always get 3.5 Flash-Lite; there is no model picker without an account. Gemini does not show the internal searches it ran ("fan-out" queries) to visitors, so the Actor reports the pages it read instead. Gemini answers in the language of the prompt. Its answer is localised to the exit IP, which for a normal run is an Apify datacenter in the US.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Gemini Search Scraper.
3. Add your prompts, one per line. Optionally list the brands or domains you want to track.
4. Click Start.
5. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Dataset tab, or schedule the run to track your visibility week after week.

Example input:

{ "queries": ["best CRM for small business", "top 5 project management tools"], "trackBrands": ["HubSpot", "asana.com"], "maxItems": 100 }

💼 Business use cases

📡 Track your share of AI answers.

Keep a list of the prompts your buyers type, list your brand and your rivals, and schedule the run weekly. The trackedBrands column shows who Gemini names, in what order, and who it cites.

🧭 Find the pages that win citations.

Turn on One row per cited source and sort by domain: the sites Gemini cites most in your niche are the ones worth a guest post, a listing or a partnership.

🧪 Compare localised answers.

Gemini localises to the exit IP. Turn on a proxy with a country and run the same prompts to see what visitors in another market are shown.

📚 Build datasets of AI answers.

Collect thousands of prompts with their answers, sources and claim-level citations for research, evaluation or retrieval work.

🔌 Automating Gemini Search Scraper

Schedule runs from the Apify Console and send the dataset to Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub or Google Drive, or call the Actor from the Apify API and the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python. A weekly run that posts trackedBrands to a Slack channel is a one-hour setup.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Research: study how an AI assistant picks and cites sources across topics and countries.

🧑‍💻 Personal: check what Gemini says about you, your shop or your project.

🤝 Non-profit: see whether the public answers about your cause cite your pages.

🔬 Experimentation: compare how wording changes the brands an answer names.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor to start:

Use the Apify Actor "parseforge/gemini-search-scraper" to ask Gemini a list of prompts and collect its answers. Input: { "queries": ["<prompt>"], "trackBrands": ["<brand or domain>"], "includeSourceRows": false, "maxItems": <n> }. Each row has answerText, answerMarkdown, sources, citations, searchedPages and trackedBrands. Call it with the ApifyClient and my APIFY_TOKEN.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔑 Do I need a Google account or a Gemini API key?

No. The Actor asks Gemini as a logged-out visitor, exactly like opening gemini.google.com in a private window.

🤖 Which Gemini model answers?

Logged-out visitors get Gemini's lightweight model, reported in the model column (3.5 Flash-Lite today). A model picker needs an account.

🌐 Does Gemini always search the web?

No, Gemini decides. In our last 300-prompt run 97% of the answers used web search and 84% cited at least one source. Answers to general-knowledge prompts often cite nothing.

🔎 Why are searchedPages longer than sources?

searchedPages is every page Gemini opened; sources is the ones it cited in the answer. The cited flag on each searched page tells them apart.

🧭 Can I see the searches Gemini ran?

No. Gemini does not show its internal search queries to visitors. The Actor gives you the pages it read instead.

🌍 Can I choose the country?

The answer is localised to the exit IP. By default that is an Apify datacenter in the US. Turn on a proxy with a country to see another market; residential exit IPs carry an extra per-answer charge because their traffic costs more.

🗣 Can I choose the language?

Gemini answers in the language of the prompt, so write the prompt in the language you want back.

⚡ How fast is it?

About 13 seconds per answer (median 12.5 s, 90% under 21 s in our 300-prompt run), and you can run 10 or more prompts at once.

🚦 Is there a limit per IP?

Yes. Google asks an IP for a breather after roughly 180 answers in a couple of minutes. The Actor then moves to Apify Proxy by itself and keeps going; in our 300-prompt run every answer came back.

❌ What happens when a prompt fails?

It is retried up to four times on a new connection. If it still fails, you get a row with the error and you are not charged.

💸 Am I charged for failed prompts?

No. Only rows with an answer are billed.

⚖️ Is this an official Google product?

No. It is an independent tool that reads the public Gemini web app.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airbyte or your own code through the Apify API, webhooks and integrations.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• Google Search Scraper: organic results, ads and AI Overviews from Google Search.
• Reddit Scraper: the threads AI answers often cite.

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more scrapers.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google LLC. It collects only publicly available answers shown to logged-out visitors. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Google's terms and applicable laws.