Google AI Overview Scraper & Tracker: Full Answer

Google AI Overview Scraper & Tracker: Full Answer, Sources, Your Brand

Scrape Google AI Overviews for any question or keyword, in any country and city, to JSON, CSV or Excel: the full answer (also the part hidden behind "Show more") as text and Markdown, every cited source with its real URL, which statement each source backs, and the products the answer recommends. Add your brand, your domain and your competitors and it becomes an AI Overview tracker (GEO / AEO): is your brand mentioned, is your site cited, where does it rank organically on the same page, and what changed since the last run. You pay only when Google shows an AI Overview: $4.99 per 1,000.

{
  "queries": ["best crm for small business", "hubspot vs salesforce"],
  "country": "us",
  "brandNames": ["HubSpot"],
  "trackDomains": ["hubspot.com"],
  "competitors": ["Salesforce", "zoho.com", "Pipedrive"]
}

What makes it different

	This Actor	Typical AI Overview scrapers
Answer text	✅ Full answer, also the sections behind "Show more" (2.3x the visible text on average in our tests), clean Markdown with headings, lists and bold	⚠️ Often only the visible part, or paragraphs glued together and repeated
Country, city, language	✅ 32 Google markets, any city (Austin, Texas), every page checked to come from that market	⚠️ Often none: the answer comes from whatever country the proxy is in (our test of a popular scraper without a country setting: prices in £ and German Google interface text inside the answer)
Sources	✅ All of them (3-10 per answer, Google shows only 3 cards) with real URLs, site name, snippet	⚠️ URL and title
Which statement each source backs	✅ citations: statement + source	❌
Products in the answer	✅ name, price, old price, seller, rating, reviews, description	❌
Your brand mentioned? Your domain cited?	✅ Built in, with the sentence that mentions you	⚠️ Some, as a separate paid tool
Organic rank on the same page	✅ Your domain and competitors, free	❌
Changes since the last run	✅ Sources added / removed, your domain new / lost	❌
Price	$4.99 per 1,000 AI Overviews, queries without one are free	$2-$15 per 1,000; brand trackers $9-$80

What you get

One row per query. Real example, "is coffee good for you", Austin, Texas, October 2026 (answer shortened):

Moderate coffee consumption of two to four cups daily is generally good for most adults and is linked to a lower
risk of chronic diseases.

### Health Benefits
- **Heart health:** Lowers risks of heart failure, stroke, and coronary artery disease.
- **Metabolism:** Fights type 2 diabetes by improving insulin response and blood sugar balance.
...
### Potential Risks          <- hidden behind "Show more" on google.com
- **Cholesterol:** Unfiltered coffee, like espresso or French press, raises bad LDL cholesterol ...

#	Source	URL	Statements backed
1	Johns Hopkins Medicine	https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/expert-qa/coffee-health-benefits	2
2	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12348139/	0
3	Mayo Clinic	https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/coffee-and-health/faq-20058339	1
4-7	Slidell Memorial Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, heart.org, Rush University	…	0

For "best running shoes for flat feet" the answer recommended 5 products (products):

#	Product	Price	Seller	Rating
1	Brooks Adrenaline GTS 25	$105.00	brooksrunning.com
2	ASICS Gel-Kayano 33	$170.00	ASICS	5.0 (1)
3	Saucony Hurricane 26	$170.00	Saucony	4.2 (51)
4	adidas Supernova Solution 3	$111.99 (was $140)	Runnerinn.com	4.6 (125)
5	Saucony Tempus 2	$76.87	Grivet Outdoors	4.7 (41)

Field	Description
query, aiOverviewShown, status	found, no AI Overview (Google shows none for this query: free) or not generated by Google (Google said "Can't generate an AI overview right now": free)
answer, answerMarkdown	The full answer as plain text and as Markdown; answerChars and visibleChars (what google.com shows before "Show more")
sources	position, title, url (real address, not a Google redirect), domain, siteName, snippet, citations (statements it backs)
sourceDomains, sourcesCount	Quick list of cited domains
citations	Each statement of the answer (text), the site Google cites for it (source) and how many more sources back it (moreSources)
products	name, price, oldPrice, seller, rating, reviewsCount, description
visibilitySummary	One line: runrepeat.com cited #1, organic — · Brooks mentioned 2x
trackedDomains	Per domain: cited, sourcePosition, statementsBacked, sourceUrl, organicPosition, organicUrl, status (new, lost, still cited, not cited, first check), previousSourcePosition
brandMentions	Per brand name: mentioned, mentions, firstMention (the sentence), inProducts
competitors	Per competitor: mentioned, mentions, cited, sourcePosition, organicPosition, firstMention
changes	Since the last run of the project: previousCheckedAt, aiOverviewBefore, sourcesAdded, sourcesRemoved
organicResults	The ~10 organic results of the same page, when Include organic results is on (free)
searchQuery	term, country, language, location, Google url, googleLocation (the place Google used), project

Eight table views: AI Overviews, Answers (Markdown), Sources, Your domains, Brand mentions, Competitors, Products and Statements and sources. The key-value store record REPORT sums up the run: the most cited domains across all answers and the share of answers that mention or cite you and each competitor.

AI Overview tracker: your brand, your domain, your competitors

Fill in Your brand names, Your domains and Competitors, give the run a Project name and schedule it weekly. Real example from the same October 2026 run:

Query	Your domain	Cited in AI Overview	Statements backed	Organic position on the same page
best running shoes for flat feet	runrepeat.com	#1	6 of 8	not on the page
is coffee good for you	mayoclinic.org	#3	1	#3
best crm for small business	zoho.com (competitor)	#5, mentioned 3x	1	not on the page

Being cited in the AI Overview and ranking organically are different things: RunRepeat backs most of the AI answer while the organic results of the same page are Reddit threads, Amazon and forums. This Actor shows both side by side. On the next runs trackedDomains[].status turns new or lost, and changes.sourcesAdded / sourcesRemoved show which sites Google started or stopped citing.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Search queries	best crm for small business, is coffee good for you, a Google search URL	Questions and comparisons get AI Overviews most often
Country	us, gb, de, fr, in, au…	32 Google markets; AI Overviews are written in the market's language
City	Austin, Texas	Empty = the country's largest city
Language	en, de, es…	Empty = the country's main language
Your brand names	HubSpot	Whole words, any case; add other spellings as separate lines
Your domains	hubspot.com	Subdomains count
Competitors	Salesforce, zoho.com	Name, or domain (then also checked as a source and in the organic results)
Project name	crm-us	Keeps the history for changes and new / lost
Include organic results	true	Free

How often does Google show an AI Overview?

In our October 2026 tests (US, informational and comparison queries) Google showed an AI Overview for 45 of 50 queries, and for 9 of 10 in the UK, Germany, India, Australia, Canada and Spain. Local queries ("dentist near me") usually get none. For a few query types ("how to learn python", "how to learn sql") Google answers "Can't generate an AI overview right now" to every visitor without a Google account; the Actor tries once more and marks the query not generated by Google. You are never charged for queries without an AI Overview.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription needed. Apify Scale and Business plans pay less:

Event	Free plan	Starter plan	Scale plan	Business plan
Run start	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001
AI Overview found (full answer, sources, products, your visibility)	$0.00499	$0.00499	$0.00489	$0.00474

1,000 AI Overviews = $4.99 on Starter ($4.89 on Scale, $4.74 on Business). Queries without an AI Overview, refused or deferred pages and retries cost nothing. Organic results, brand and competitor checks and the history are included. Platform usage is included. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options: the Actor stops there.

Why not $2? Every query is a real Google result page bought through a paid SERP proxy, pinned to your country and city and checked. Cheaper tools skip the market check or the hidden part of the answer.

Ready-made tasks

Task	What it does
AI Overview Tracker: Is Your Brand Cited?	Your brand, your domain and competitors in Google AI Overviews for a list of buyer questions, with changes since the last check

FAQ

Is this the same as Google AI Mode? No. AI Overview is the AI answer on top of the normal result page; AI Mode is Google's separate chat-style search (the "AI Mode" tab). This Actor returns AI Overviews only.

Why does the answer differ from what I see? AI Overviews are generated and change over time, and Google personalizes them for signed-in users. The Actor sees Google as a new, signed-out visitor from your city, the most neutral view. For tracking, schedule runs and compare over several checks.

Why are some sources cited 0 times? Google lists every source it used; only some are attached to a specific statement with a citation chip. citations counts those chips; sources has all of them.

How are brand mentions matched? As whole words, case-insensitive, in the answer text and in product names and sellers. "HubSpot" does not match "HubSpotter". Add spellings like "Hubspot CRM" as separate lines.

Do I need a Google account, API key or proxy? No. Everything is included.

Use with the API and AI agents

Run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python client, n8n, Make or Zapier, or from AI agents through the Apify MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor): GEO / AEO monitoring, content research on what Google's AI says about a topic, and the sources it trusts. One call: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/s_actors~google-ai-overview-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items with the input above returns the answers as JSON.

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Google Hotels Scraper	Hotel prices from every booking site
Google Flights Scraper	Flight prices, cheapest dates, price alerts
Google Play Scraper	Apps, ratings, reviews, keyword rankings
Bulk Image Downloader	Google Images and image links to a ZIP file

Is it legal?

The Actor reads public Google search result pages, the same pages anyone can open without logging in. Use the data according to the laws that apply to you and Google's terms. This Actor is not affiliated with Google.