Overview
GET /locations
The Scale SERP Locations API allows you to search for Scale SERP supported Google search locations. You can supply the full_name returned by the Locations API as the location parameter in a Search API query to retrieve search results localized to that location.
The Locations API is Free of Charge There is no charge for usage of the Locations API and requests to it will not decrement your monthly search credits. However, to guarantee quality of service to all customers, we do apply a rate limit of 120 requests per minute.
To search for the location london the Scale SERP Locations API request would be:
Here are the results from the request above, note that the locations array contains the Scale SERP supported locations matching the query supplied in the q parameter.
Lets say we want to refine our location query to search for locations matching london that are cities within Great Britain. To do that we use the type and country_code parameters:
Note that the results now reflect just cities within the GB country code.
You can pass the fully qualified ( full_name ) Location name into the location parameter of a Search API request to retrieve search results from that location. In the example below we are passing the Location of Greater London,England,United Kingdom , as retrieved from the full_name property in the Locations API response, in the Search API location parameter: