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SerpApi
Company blog · serpapi.com/blog · on HN as hartatorprogrammingdataweb
SerpApi is the company blog at serpapi.com, writing about programming, data and web. Since 2017, 52 different Hacker News readers have linked it 319 times, most often “SerpAPI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention serpapi.com as a SERP scraping API. Its blog posts on scraping legality, Google requiring JavaScript, and AI-based HTML parsing get cited as sources in discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.
Most-linked posts?
- SerpAPI6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-07-08
- /careers4 people · 34 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
- Launch HN: SerpApi – Google Search Results API3 people · 55 mentions · first linked 2017-10-23
- Google Now Requiring JavaScript in the Browser3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-01-18
- Google vs. SerpApi: We're Filing a Motion to Dismiss3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-20
- Why scraping public pages is legal in the US3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-30
- Google vs. SerpApi: Threatening Access to Public Data2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-23
- Solution to scrape 100 Search Results on Google2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- Our Response to Reddit, Inc. vs. SerpApi, LLC: Defending the First Amendment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-28
- Who Has the Fastest Google Search API?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-30
What Hacker News says?
I wonder if it will make sense to now build a meta search engine using SerpApi [1], weight couple of websites more like reddit or stackoverflow, remove adds, and repackage all this listings into a super simple UI. [1] https://serpapi.com
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on “Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories”Submitted A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions as a story · 521 points
HN discussionGoogle Search seemed to be also down: https://serpapi.com/status
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on “Google outage – resolved”Submitted Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served as a story · 265 points
HN discussionIt’s exactly what we do: https://serpapi.com Shoot me an email, I’ll hook you up with 1,000 credits. It’s funny one of my first use was from ML as well, but it end up being used mostly for SEO and web marketing.
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on “Google Memory Loss”Submitted OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B as a story · 105 points
HN discussionYes, I believe that's basically what https://serpapi.com/ is doing.
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on “Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives”Submitted Who uses Accept-Language header? as a story · 78 points
HN discussionThat’s awesome news. Thanks also to the EFF for all the work they are doing to ensure fair use is still a thing. We’ll ( https://serpapi.com ) be donating next year.
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on “9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]”Submitted Every Google &udm=? in the world (2024) as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Senior Backend Engineer | Austin, TX | Full-time | REMOTE FIRST COMPANY SerpApi is a real time API to access search engine results. We solve the issues of having to rent proxies, solving captchas, and JSON parsing in an easy to use and integrate API for our customers. Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We are looking for a senior backend developer. Experience in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby as a story · 60 points
HN discussion> I assume they've vetted all the legality of things. They claim they did: https://serpapi.com/blog/scraping-public-pages-legality/ Still they have a boilerplate ToS with some glaring mistakes: > These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of 5540 N Lamar Blvd #12, Austin, TX, 78756, United States. (sic)
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on “After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days”Submitted History of AMP and Why Everybody Is Against It? as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIt should be ok as long as you do it logged out. SerpAPI is a convenient wrapper API for scraping various sites. I assume they've vetted all the legality of things. They have a YouTube API: https://serpapi.com/yelp-search-api
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on “After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days”Submitted Our Response to Reddit, Inc. vs. SerpApi, LLC: Defending the First Amendment as a story · 22 points
HN discussion>By default Google has been able to click track with JS. If you disable JS, they don't serve you search ( https://serpapi.com/blog/google-now-requires-javascript/ ). This discussion is about search results pages with JavaScript enabled . >And btw about the result filtering the uBlock dev wants to do For a long time, uBlock Origin has kept up with blocking Google's click tracking out of the box with the default Priva…
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on “google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update”Submitted The easiest way to scrape Google Hotels data as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIt's not misinformation. By default Google has been able to click track with JS. If you disable JS, they don't serve you search ( https://serpapi.com/blog/google-now-requires-javascript/ ). Yes, if you are tricky, you can block just the part of the JS that does click tracking, probably. But most users can't do that. They therefore were already getting 99% complete click tracking before this change. This change is no…
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on “google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update”Submitted Bulk Image Search with Google Lens as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Senior Backend Engineer | Austin, TX | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | $130-$160k + equity Serp Api is a real time API to access Google search results. We solves the issues of having to rent proxies, solving captchas, and JSON parsing in an easy to use and integrate API for our customers. Our current stack is Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Headless browser automation (Selenium and PhantomJS),…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Google Experiments with Restricting Results per Page as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHow are you getting to $1.50 with SERP API? Based on their published pricing the cheapest is over $9 per 1000 searches https://serpapi.com/pricing
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on “DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests”Submitted How to Scrape Google Maps Reviews with N8n and Google Sheets as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSerpApi has also now its own index: https://serpapi.com/search-index-api
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on “Web Search API”Submitted Making a Hotel Price Tracker with Google Hotels and N8n as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Customer Success | Austin, TX | Full-time | ONSITE or FULLY REMOTE AND REMOTE FIRST COMPANY | $52k 1099 + profit sharing bonuses SerpApi is a real time API to access search engine results. We solve the issues of having to rent proxies, solving captchas, and JSON parsing in an easy to use and integrate API for our customers. We are looking someone to join our custom success team. Main…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Reddit's Lawsuit Is a Dangerous Attempt to Expand Platform Power as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Senior Backend Engineer | Austin, TX | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | $130-$160k + equity Serp Api is a real time API to access Google search results. We solves the issues of having to rent proxies, solving captchas, and JSON parsing in an easy to use and integrate API for our customers. Our current stack is Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Headless browser automation (Selenium and PhantomJS),…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Connect DeepSeek API with real time data answer from Google as a story · 6 points
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