SERP Scraper API

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Reviewed by Cem Dilmegani
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Researched by Gulbahar Karatas
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Last update: January 22, 2025

A Search Engine Results Page (SERP) scraper API is a data collection tool that allows users to scrape and parse search engine result pages' data.  +Show More

A Search Engine Results Page (SERP) scraper API is a data collection tool that allows users to scrape and parse search engine result pages' data. The SERP API sends a connection request to the target search engine and retrieves search-related information such as featured snippets, images, organic search results, and paid advertisements. SERP scraping APIs differ from web scrapers in their approach and functionality. SERP APIs provide an interface for users to request and retrieve data, whereas web scrapers directly interact with web pages to extract data.

To be categorized as an SERP scraper API software, a product must:

  • Offer an API to retrieve data from search engine results pages in a structured format.
If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of SERP Scraper API and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Business Function APIs.
How relevant, verifiable metrics drive AIMultiple’s rankings

AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
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Products Position Customer satisfaction
Bright Data logo

Bright Data

Leader
Satisfactory
Bright Data is the world\'s leading platform for web data collection, serving over 20,000 businesses with tools to access, extract, and structure public web data effectively and ethically. With a robust proxy network, scraping APIs, and pre-collected datasets, it powers scalable, reliable, and compliant data-driven operations across industries.

Unmatched Performance: With a global network of over 100 million IPs in 200+ countries and advanced unblocking technology, Bright Data ensures fast, reliable, and high-success-rate data collection.

Scalability & Reliability: Built to handle operations of any size, Bright Data seamlessly supports businesses scraping terabytes of data monthly.

Advanced Automation: Save time with automated scraping tools that manage JavaScript rendering, unblocking, and crawling effortlessly.

Cost Efficiency: Volume-based pricing and optimized proxy solutions help reduce redundant requests and cut operational costs by up to 40%.

Compliance & Ethics: Bright Data prioritizes ethical data collection, maintaining strict adherence to global regulations and industry best practices.

24/7 Expert Support: Bright Data provides round-the-clock, dedicated support from a team of experts to ensure your operations run smoothly at all times.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.75 / 5 based on ~300 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
30k-40k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1901
Decodo logo

Decodo

Leader
Satisfactory
Provides proxies and scrapers for web data collection.\\
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40M+ ethically sourced residential and datacenter proxies in 195+ countries, including states and cities worldwide, to avoid geo and IP blocks while scraping. Decodo\\\'s proxy network includes residential, ISP (static residential), mobile, datacenter and dedicated datacenter proxies. Proxies support HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols. Offers Site Unblocker that allows users to automate proxy selection and render JavaScript web pages. \\
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Scrapers retrieve data from any website without writing a single line of code. Schedules the scraping task and receives the results via email or webhook. Provides pre-made scraping templates.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.60 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2018
Apify logo

Apify

Leader
Satisfactory
Apify is a platform for web scraping and automation, enabling users to extract data from websites, process it, and automate their workflows. It provides scrapers and proxies to support data collection projects.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.62 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Total funding
$1-5m
# of funding rounds
4
Latest funding date
June 19, 2019
Last funding amount
$1-5m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
Scraping Bee logo

Scraping Bee

Leader
Satisfactory
Rotating and premium proxies for web scraping and data mining purposes. Rotates IP addresses automatically to reduce the likelihood of getting blocked by websites.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.90 / 5 based on ~70 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1-5 employees
Company's social media followers
200-300 followers
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
May 1, 2020
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2019
Oxylabs logo

Oxylabs

Challenger
Satisfactory
Provides:\\
More than 177M IPs in 195 countries worldwide, including residential, mobile, datacenter, ISP, and SOCKS5 proxy servers.\\
Large-scale scraping of public web data without being detected and blocked by the target websites.\\
Web Unblocker to collect data at scale from JavaScript-heavy websites.\\
API-based web scrapers\\
Web datasets for teams that want to get fresh, structured web data without building a web scraping and parsing infrastructure
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
SerpApi logo

SerpApi

Challenger
Satisfactory
Allows users to extract data from all major search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Baidu and delivers the scraped SERP data in JSON format.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.75 / 5 based on ~20 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
20-30 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2017
Zyte logo

Zyte

Challenger
Satisfactory
Offers proxy networks, API for data collection activities, and web data extraction services for businesses.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.20 / 5 based on ~20 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
200-300 employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
APILayer logo

APILayer

Challenger
N/A
Offers cloud-based API ZenSerp API that allows developers to scrape data from all major search engines including Google, YouTube, and Shopping results.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.10 / 5 based on 9 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
10-20 employees
Company's social media followers
3k-4k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
GeoRanker logo

GeoRanker

Challenger
N/A
GeoRanker is a cost-effective solution that allows us to research, collect, and monitor key local SEO focal points across thousands of individual franchises.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.30 / 5 based on 3 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
10-20 employees
Company's social media followers
400-1k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2013
DataForSEO logo

DataForSEO

Niche Player
N/A
Extracts publicly available web data from search engines, marketplaces, review platforms, and other web sources for SEO and digital marketing purposes.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on 4 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
20-30 employees
Company's social media followers
4k-5k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2016

“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.


Sources

AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in SERP scraper API:


12 vendor web domains
10 funding announcements
28 social media profiles
14 profiles on review platforms
13 search engine queries

SERP Scraper API Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
Apify logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
Scraping Bee logo

What are SERP scraper API
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current SERP scraper API customer satisfaction leaders:

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
Apify logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
Scraping Bee logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo

Which SERP scraper API solution provides the most customer satisfaction?

AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.

While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.

  • Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
  • Recency is important as products are always evolving.
  • Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
  • older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.

What are SERP scraper API
market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current SERP scraper API market leaders:

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers logo
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers logo
Apify logo
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers logo
Scraping Bee logo

Which one has collected the most reviews?

AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:

  • Product line revenue (when available)
  • Number of reviews
  • Number of case studies
  • Number and experience of employees
  • Social media presence and engagement
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers
Smartproxy Proxies & Scrapers
Apify
Oxylabs Proxies & Scrapers
Scraping Bee

What are the most mature SERP scraper API?

Which one has the most employees?

Bright Data logo
Oxylabs logo
Zyte logo
Apify logo
smartproxy.com logo

Which SERP scraper API companies have the most employees?

64 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 41 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 12 companies with >10 employees are offering . Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 1k employees. The largest company in this domain is Bright Data with more than 1000 employees. Bright Data provides the SERP scraper API solution: Bright Data Proxies & Scrapers

Bright Data
Oxylabs
Zyte
Apify
smartproxy.com

Insights

What are the most common words describing SERP scraper API?

This data is collected from customer reviews for all SERP scraper API companies. The most positive word describing SERP scraper API is “Customer support” that is used in 5.00% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Expensive” with which is used in 2% of all the SERP scraper API reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for SERP scraper API customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 84% of SERP scraper API customers. For an average Business Function APIs solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 44% of total customers.

Customer Evaluation

These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all SERP scraper API. are most positively evaluated in terms of "Customer Service" but falls behind in "Value For Money".

Overall
Customer Service
Ease of Use
Likelihood to Recommend
Value For Money

Where are SERP scraper API vendors' HQs located?

What is the level of interest in SERP scraper API?

This category was searched on average for 0 times per month on search engines in 2024. This number is still 0 in 2025. If we compare with other business function apis solutions, a typical solution was searched 126 times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.

Learn more about SERP Scraper API

SERP scraper API is a web scraping API (application programming interfaces) that automatically extracts data from the results pages of search engines like Google and Bing,

Search engine scraping, also known as SERP scraping, is the process of collecting data from search engine results, such as URLs, descriptions, and titles.

The following are the data that can be scraped from search engine results pages (SERPs):

  • The list of websites or URLs that appear in the search results
  • People also ask boxes
  • The title and description of each search result.

Google Maps scraping is different from Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) scraping. Google Maps scraping can include data points such as business listings, reviews, ratings, and operational hours. Most SERP scraper APIs are not capable of scraping Google Maps search results.

Many SERP scraper APIs convert the scraped data to a format that Excel can read.You could also leverage a programming language like Python with a library such as pandas to convert the data to Excel.

Many SERP scraper APIs provide user-friendly interfaces and detailed documentation. However, basic coding knowledge would be beneficial to use SERP Scraper APIs effectively. If you don't have coding skills, you can consider using a no-code scraping tool.