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Google Search Results Scraper — SERP API

Google Search Results Scraper — SERP API

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Google Search Results Scraper returns organic results (title, real URL, snippet, position) for any query through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy — one row per SERP page, and each row is one billed result.

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What is Google Search Results Scraper?

Google Search Results Scraper is an Apify Actor that fetches Google search result pages (SERPs) and returns organic results with real, ready-to-click destination URLs as one clean, structured row per page. It works through the Apify Proxy GOOGLE_SERP group — the proxy pool Google accepts requests through — asking for Google's &gbv=1 ("basic HTML") rendering, whose links are a decodable /url?q=<url> redirect. When Google serves its modern page instead (often — see the FAQ), each result link is an opaque /goto?url=<token> click tracker; the Actor follows Google's own redirect for it, so url is the full destination either way, never a domain guessed from the breadcrumb. Priced per SERP page fetched, not per result. Filter by date range, site, file type or exact phrase, and page through up to 10 result pages per query.

Pricing: Google Search Results Scraper costs $5.00 per 1,000 results (pay per result, no subscription; Apify's free plan credit covers small runs).

What data does Google Search Results Scraper extract?

Google Search Results Scraper extracts the organic result list for every query/page combination you give it:

FieldTypeDescription
query, page, countryCode, languageCode, devicestring, numberThe request that produced this row
searchUrlstringThe exact Google URL fetched through the proxy
organicResults, organicCountarray, number{position, title, url, displayedUrl, snippet, date, sitelinks[]} per organic listing
peopleAlsoAsk, relatedSearches, ads, adCount, featuredSnippet, knowledgePanelTitlearray/object/nullParsed when present — see the FAQ, they are near-always empty on this Actor's leaner rendering
totalResultsText, htmlLengthstring, numberGoogle's own results-count text (rarely present) and the raw HTML size fetched
error, scrapedAtstringSet on a fetch/parse/blocked-page failure, and the ISO timestamp of the request

How to use Google Search Results Scraper

  1. Enter your search terms into Search queries, e.g. apify web scraping. One row comes back per query per result page.
  2. Set Max pages per query (up to 10) if you need more than the first ~10 results — Google returns about 10 per page.
  3. Optionally narrow the search with Date range, Only this site, File type or Exact phrase.
  4. Pick Device (desktop or mobile User-Agent), click Start, then export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML — every organicResults[].url is the full destination link, ready to open or crawl further (or null in the rare case Google did not reveal it — never a guessed domain).

Example input

{
    "queries": ["apify web scraping", "best crm for startups"],
    "countryCode": "us",
    "languageCode": "en",
    "resultsPerPage": 10,
    "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
    "device": "desktop"
}

Example output

{
    "query": "apify web scraping",
    "page": 1,
    "device": "desktop",
    "searchUrl": "http://www.google.com/search?q=apify+web+scraping&hl=en&gl=us&num=10&gbv=1",
    "organicResults": [
        {
            "position": 1,
            "title": "Apify: The largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI",
            "url": "https://apify.com/",
            "displayedUrl": "apify.com",
            "snippet": "68,172 tools for your AI ... Apify is the largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI. Get real-time...",
            "date": null,
            "sitelinks": []
        },
        {
            "position": 2,
            "title": "Apify - GitHub",
            "url": "https://github.com/apify",
            "displayedUrl": "github.com › apify",
            "snippet": null,
            "date": null,
            "sitelinks": []
        }
    ],
    "organicCount": 6,
    "peopleAlsoAsk": [],
    "relatedSearches": [],
    "adCount": 0,
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T18:23:45.000Z"
}

Input parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
queriesarray["apify web scraping"]Search queries, one or more result pages per query
countryCodestring"us"2-letter country code (gl)
languageCodestring"en"2-letter language code (hl)
resultsPerPageinteger10Sent as num; Google currently returns ~10 per page anyway
maxPagesPerQueryinteger1Result pages fetched per query (1-10), ~10 results each
dateRangestring—hour, day, week, month or year (tbs=qdr:)
sitestring—Adds site: to every query, e.g. reddit.com or gov
fileTypestring—Adds filetype: to every query, e.g. pdf
exactPhrasestring—Adds a quoted phrase every result must contain
devicestring"desktop"desktop or mobile User-Agent
includePeopleAlsoAskbooleantrueParse People Also Ask when Google renders it (modern page only, see FAQ)
includeRelatedSearchesbooleantrueParse related searches when Google renders them
safeSearchbooleanfalseRequest SafeSearch filtering
maxConcurrencyinteger3SERP pages fetched in parallel (1-10)
debugHtmlbooleanfalseSave every fetched Google page as PAGE_<n>.html in the key-value store (for bug reports)

There is no proxy configuration input — every request goes through the Apify Proxy GOOGLE_SERP group automatically, and that proxy cost is already included in the price below.

Search filters and more than 10 results per query

The filters are applied to every query in the run: dateRange sets Google's "Any time" filter (tbs=qdr:h/d/w/m/y), and site, fileType and exactPhrase add site:, filetype: and a quoted phrase to the query. The row's searchUrl shows exactly what was sent.

Measured on Apify on 9 October 2026:

  • climate with exactPhrase: "annual report", site: "gov", fileType: "pdf" and dateRange: "year": page 1 had 10 results, all on .gov sites, all dated between 21 October 2025 and 29 September 2026, with PDF page counts in the snippets.
  • Paging past the first 10: pizza delivery with maxPagesPerQuery: 2 gave 8 results on page 1 and 10 more on page 2, with no title repeated. Each page is one row and one billed SERP page.
  • resultsPerPage above 10 does not help: with resultsPerPage: 100 Google returned 9 results. Pages are therefore requested at start=10, 20, … whatever resultsPerPage says, so no results are skipped between pages; use maxPagesPerQuery for depth.

A page whose proxy request times out (seen once in these tests, on a page 2) comes back as a row with error set instead of failing the run.

Pricing

Google Search Results Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing with a single billed event, result: one dataset row, and one row is one Google results page (up to resultsPerPage organic links) for one query. On the free plan that is $0.005 per result, i.e. $5.00 per 1,000 results (= 1,000 SERP pages); paid Apify plans get a volume discount. The Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy is included — you never see a separate proxy bill. A page Google refuses still returns one row with the reason in error, so the row count — and the cost — is always queries × pages, known before the run. Set Maximum cost per run (maxTotalChargeUsd) and the Actor trims the query/page list to what the budget covers instead of overspending.

Google Search Results Scraper vs. apify/google-search-scraper

Both Actors are pay-per-event and bill per Google results page, so the cost is easy to estimate up front either way; apify/google-search-scraper adds optional paid add-ons (such as AI Overview capture) and many more SERP features. Google Search Results Scraper is deliberately simple: one event, one row per query page, and organicResults[].url is the full destination link on both Google layouts, rather than the opaque click-tracker link many scrapers pass through unresolved. The trade-off is that People Also Ask, ads and related searches are often empty (see the FAQ) — pick this Actor when you need clean organic URLs, not SERP widgets.

Using Google Search Results Scraper with AI agents and MCP

Google Search Results Scraper is pay-per-event with limited permissions — the two requirements for an Actor to be callable through the Apify MCP server at mcp.apify.com. An agent passes queries and gets back structured organic results with real destination URLs per page — ready for competitive research, content-gap analysis, or a lead-generation pipeline that needs to actually visit or crawl the result. The same run works from n8n, Make, Zapier and LangChain through Apify's integrations.

Short timeouts never lose results. Every SERP page is saved to the dataset as soon as it is parsed. When the run's timeout is close (the last 10 s, or 5 % of a longer run, at most 2 min) the Actor starts no new pages, saves everything it has and ends SUCCEEDED — not TIMED-OUT — with a status message such as Stopped early before the run timeout: 12 of 40 SERP page(s) done…. Read the run's statusMessage to tell a complete result from a partial one.

Sizing a run. A SERP page takes about 1–3 s (rarely up to ~7 s) and maxConcurrency pages run in parallel, plus ~5 s start-up: 30 pages at the default concurrency of 3 fit comfortably in a 60-second timeout; for hundreds of pages raise maxConcurrency or the timeout. maxTotalChargeUsd caps the cost — the Actor fetches only as many pages as the budget covers ($0.005 each, so $0.10 = 20 pages) and says so in the status message.

FAQ

Which Google page does the Actor get, and how does url get the full link? Every request asks for Google's &gbv=1 ("basic HTML") page, whose result links are a decodable /url?q=<url> redirect. Google often ignores that and serves its modern JavaScript page instead: on 9 October 2026, 11 of 16 test fetches came back modern, and which one arrives varies by query and over minutes, not reliably by User-Agent (Lynx, Opera Mini and IE6 User-Agents were tried). On the modern page every result link is /goto?url=<token>, an encrypted token with no destination in the page. For those the Actor makes one plain request per result to Google's own redirect (no proxy, no extra charge to you) and reads the destination from its answer. In a 9 October cloud check (3 queries, one page each: 2 basic pages, 1 modern page) all 25 organic results had their full URL, including all 7 from the modern page.

Why is url sometimes null? Only when the destination cannot be determined: Google's redirect did not answer in time or answered with something other than a redirect (for example a rate-limit page), or the link was malformed. Then url is null, displayedUrl still shows Google's breadcrumb (e.g. https://www.salesforce.com › crm › startup-crm) and the run log says how many URLs on that page were unresolved. The Actor no longer turns the breadcrumb into a bare domain like https://www.salesforce.com, because that is not the result's URL. Note that displayedUrl is whatever Google prints there — for forum threads it can be text such as 180+ comments · 1 year ago.

Why are peopleAlsoAsk, relatedSearches, ads and featuredSnippet often empty? Google's basic &gbv=1 page does not include those widgets at all. The modern page usually carries People Also Ask questions, so peopleAlsoAsk is filled on the pages where Google served it; ads and related searches are rarely parsed. Which layout a page gets is Google's choice (previous question), so do not rely on these fields — pick this Actor for organic results.

Is a page with a cookie-consent banner a failure? No. The modern page sometimes carries a "Before you continue to Google" dialog on top of complete results; the Actor parses the results underneath. Only a consent page with no results is reported as blocked.

What happens if Google shows a CAPTCHA or a consent page with no results? The row's error says so ("Blocked by Google (captcha page detected)...") and the raw HTML is saved to the run's key-value store as DEBUG_<n>.html so it can be inspected; lower Max concurrency and try again later.

What if Google changes its markup? Every selector has 2-3 fallbacks. If a page still comes back with 0 organic results despite being a real (large) response, the row gets error: "Could not parse results (markup changed?)" and the HTML is likewise saved as DEBUG_<n>.html — open an issue with that file attached.

Is this legal to run? Scraping publicly visible search results is generally lower-risk than scraping logged-in content, but you are responsible for complying with Google's Terms of Service and your local laws for your use case.

Can I export to CSV or Excel? Yes, from the Output tab or the API, with a ready-made Overview view.

Part of the webdatatools web-intelligence suite — every Actor is pay-per-event, reads public data without a login, and returns one clean row per entity:

Browse the whole suite at webdatatools, or call ten of these Actors straight from Claude, Cursor or Cline with the webdatatools MCP server.

Website & domain intelligence

Content for AI, LLMs and RAG

Search, video and social

Leads, jobs and company data

Developer, app and research data

Support and feedback

Found a query pattern that returns a parse error, a selector Google changed, or a field worth adding? Open an issue on the Issues tab — attach the DEBUG_<n>.html file from the run's key-value store if you have one.

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