Introduction

overview serpwow executes search requests in real time returning clean, structured json html or csv results you can achieve fine grained control over your search query using the search parameters https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/common with serpwow you can run search queries against google https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/google/search , bing https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/bing/search , yahoo https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/yahoo/search , baidu https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/baidu/search , yandex https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/yandex/search , naver https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/naver/search , amazon https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/amazon/search or ebay https //docs trajectdata com/serpwow/search api/searches/ebay/search we recommend watching this short video introduction to the serpwow web app making a request get get /search performing a search is as simple as making a get http request to the serpwow search endpoint the only required parameters are api key ( sign up https //app serpwow\ com/signup for free to get an api key) and q (your search query) for example, to search for the phrase pizza the serpwow search request would be http https //api serpwow\ com/live/search?api key=demo\&q=pizza$ curl get https //api serpwow\ com/live/search \\ d api key="demo" \\ d q="pizza"const axios = require('axios'); // set up the request parameters const params = { api key "demo", q "pizza" } // make the http get request to serpwow axios get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', { params }) then(response => { // print the json response from serpwow console log(json stringify(response data, 0, 2)); }) catch(error => { // catch and print the error console log(error); })import requests import json \# set up the request parameters params = { 'api key' 'demo', 'q' 'pizza' } \# make the http get request to serpwow api result = requests get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', params) \# print the json response from serpwow print(json dumps(api result json()))# set up the request parameters $querystring = http build query(\[ 'api key' => 'demo', 'q' => 'pizza' ]); \# make the http get request to serpwow $ch = curl init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', $querystring)); curl setopt($ch, curlopt returntransfer, true); curl setopt($ch, curlopt followlocation, true); \# the following options are required if you're using an outdated openssl version \# more details https //www openssl org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/letsencryptrootcertexpire/ curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifyhost, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifypeer, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt timeout, 180); $api result = curl exec($ch); curl close($ch); \# print the json response from serpwow echo $api result; to view serpwow json results clearly in your browser we recommend these extensions for chrome and firefox lets say we want to refine our query to search for pizza within london, uk here's how we could use the serpwow location parameter to achieve just that http https //api serpwow\ com/live/search?api key=demo\&q=pizza\&location=london,england,united kingdom$ curl get https //api serpwow\ com/live/search \\ d api key="demo" \\ d q="pizza" \\ d location="london,england,united kingdom"const axios = require('axios'); // set up the request parameters const params = { api key "demo", q "pizza", location "london,england,united kingdom" } // make the http get request to serpwow axios get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', { params }) then(response => { // print the json response from serpwow console log(json stringify(response data, 0, 2)); }) catch(error => { // catch and print the error console log(error); })import requests import json \# set up the request parameters params = { 'api key' 'demo', 'q' 'pizza', 'location' 'london,england,united kingdom' } \# make the http get request to serpwow api result = requests get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', params) \# print the json response from serpwow print(json dumps(api result json()))# set up the request parameters $querystring = http build query(\[ 'api key' => 'demo', 'q' => 'pizza', 'location' => 'london,england,united kingdom' ]); \# make the http get request to serpwow $ch = curl init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', $querystring)); curl setopt($ch, curlopt returntransfer, true); curl setopt($ch, curlopt followlocation, true); \# the following options are required if you're using an outdated openssl version \# more details https //www openssl org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/letsencryptrootcertexpire/ curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifyhost, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifypeer, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt timeout, 180); $api result = curl exec($ch); curl close($ch); \# print the json response from serpwow echo $api result; now lets try the same search but in paris, france when we update the location parameter note how serpwow automatically changes the google domain parameter to google fr and the gl (country) and hl (language) parameters to hl=fr (so you see localized results exactly as a human user in paris would) http https //api serpwow\ com/live/search?api key=demo\&q=pizza\&location=paris,ile de france,france$ curl get https //api serpwow\ com/live/search \\ d api key="demo" \\ d q="pizza" \\ d location="paris,ile de france,france"const axios = require('axios'); // set up the request parameters const params = { api key "demo", q "pizza", location "paris,ile de france,france" } // make the http get request to serpwow axios get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', { params }) then(response => { // print the json response from serpwow console log(json stringify(response data, 0, 2)); }) catch(error => { // catch and print the error console log(error); })import requests import json \# set up the request parameters params = { 'api key' 'demo', 'q' 'pizza', 'location' 'paris,ile de france,france' } \# make the http get request to serpwow api result = requests get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', params) \# print the json response from serpwow print(json dumps(api result json()))# set up the request parameters $querystring = http build query(\[ 'api key' => 'demo', 'q' => 'pizza', 'location' => 'paris,ile de france,france' ]); \# make the http get request to serpwow $ch = curl init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', $querystring)); curl setopt($ch, curlopt returntransfer, true); curl setopt($ch, curlopt followlocation, true); \# the following options are required if you're using an outdated openssl version \# more details https //www openssl org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/letsencryptrootcertexpire/ curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifyhost, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifypeer, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt timeout, 180); $api result = curl exec($ch); curl close($ch); \# print the json response from serpwow echo $api result; now lets take a look at how to paginate through results using the page and num parameters page determines the page number of the results (starting from 1) and num determines the number of results to show per page if we wanted to show the 2nd page of results, based on 10 results per page, our query would be http https //api serpwow\ com/live/search?api key=demo\&q=pizza\&page=2\&num=10$ curl get https //api serpwow\ com/live/search \\ d api key="demo" \\ d q="pizza" \\ d page="2" \\ d num="10"const axios = require('axios'); // set up the request parameters const params = { api key "demo", q "pizza", page "2", num "10" } // make the http get request to serpwow axios get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', { params }) then(response => { // print the json response from serpwow console log(json stringify(response data, 0, 2)); }) catch(error => { // catch and print the error console log(error); })import requests import json \# set up the request parameters params = { 'api key' 'demo', 'q' 'pizza', 'page' '2', 'num' '10' } \# make the http get request to serpwow api result = requests get('https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', params) \# print the json response from serpwow print(json dumps(api result json()))# set up the request parameters $querystring = http build query(\[ 'api key' => 'demo', 'q' => 'pizza', 'page' => '2', 'num' => '10' ]); \# make the http get request to serpwow $ch = curl init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https //api serpwow\ com/live/search', $querystring)); curl setopt($ch, curlopt returntransfer, true); curl setopt($ch, curlopt followlocation, true); \# the following options are required if you're using an outdated openssl version \# more details https //www openssl org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/letsencryptrootcertexpire/ curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifyhost, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt ssl verifypeer, false); curl setopt($ch, curlopt timeout, 180); $api result = curl exec($ch); curl close($ch); \# print the json response from serpwow echo $api result; lastly, serpwow supports more than just google! you can use serpwow to run searches against bing, yahoo, baidu, yandex, naver, amazon or ebay search engines it's as simple as using the engine parameter see below for searching using bing