Google Search API

Welcome to AvesAPI!

Getting Started

The AvesAPI was built to let you scrape Google SERP data in real-time removing the complexity of managing proxy and solving CAPTCHA challenges. The application takes only a few minutes using the simple HTTP GET URL structure, and the results are returned as JSON or HTML.

AvesAPI is based on REST technology to interact with data between your application and our service.

This documentation will outline in detail specifications, access, and available API endpoints. In case any technical questions are left unanswered, please feel free to contact AvesAPI support for assistance.

Prohibited Keywords

We deduct 1 credit per each successful request except for some restrictions in order to maintain our service sustainable. All operator search is strictly prohibited and if you make such query, 25 credits will be deducted. Some of them are listed below

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API Access Key & Authentication

After signing up for an account, each user will be assigned a unique API Access Key. This key will be used to authenticate with the API via REST and access any of the available endpoints.

If you are a current user of AvesAPI, obtain the API Key from your account page to access our API. If you are not a member of AvesAPI you can create your account to benefit from our service.

To authenticate with the API, simply append your API key to the API's base URL using the apikey parameter shown below.

https://api.avesapi.com/search?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Common API Error Codes

The response will be returned as 400 Status code If there is a problem with your request.

Code	Type	Info
405	missing_apikey	The user did not provide an API Key.
406	invalid_apikey	Invalid API Key.
409	missing_search_query	The user did not provide a valid value inside the query parameter.
411	invalid_search_type	The user did not provide a valid value inside the type parameter.
429	usage_limit_reached	The user has reached his allowance credits.

API Endpoints

To query the API for Google search results, simply append the query parameter to the API's base URL and set it to a search query of your choice.

Example request: https://api.avesapi.com/search?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&query=covid19

HTTP Get Requests Parameters

Parameter	Description
apikey	[Required] Your API Access key, available on your account dashboard.
query	[Required] Specify any query to search for.
device	[Optional] Specify which device to use: desktop (default), or mobile.
location	[Optional] Adding a location parameter to your API request helps to gather location-based search results. Download list of our supported places resources.places.json which contains thousands of places as JSON array. If you want to gather local-based results you should use the value of "place_slug" key in the file. For example, "place_slug": "london" Adding location=london parameter to API URL means that you will get search results for London city.
google_domain	[Optional] Specify a Google domain to use for your query. (Default: google.com). Download a list of supported google domains: resource.google.domains.json
gl	[Optional] Specify a country code to use for your query. (Default: us for United States). Download a list of supported 2-letter country codes: resource.google.countries.json
hl	[Optional] Specify a language to use for your query. (Default: en for English). Download a list of all supported languages: resource.google.languages.json
num	[Optional] Specify the number of results to show per page. (Default: 10 - shows 10 organic results).
page	[Optional] Specify the number of page between 1-10. (Default: 1 - shows the first page).
uule	[Optional] Returns the location-based search results.
output	[Optional] Specify which API response format to return: json (default) or html.

Response and Definitions

Your API response strongly depends on your search query and the parameters you choose to make use of. Find below a representative example API response, returned for the query adidas and containing some of Google's key response objects. Each available response object will be explained further below in this section.

Response Object:

Object	Description
request > success	Returns true if your API request has succeeded.
request > search_url	Returns the exact search URL used for your API request.
request > total_time_taken	Returns the total processing time as milliseconds of your request.
search_parameters > query	Returns the requested search query.
search_parameters > type	Returns the type of Google search used for your API request. Possible values: web (default), images, videos, news, shopping
search_parameters > device	Returns the name of the device type used for your API request.
search_parameters > google_domain	Returns the Google domain used for your request.
search_parameters > hl	Returns the content of the hl parameter sent along with your API request.
search_parameters > gl	Returns the content of the gl parameter sent along with your API request.
search_parameters > page	Returns the specified numbers of results per page as an integer.
search_parameters > output	Returns the output requested along with your API request. (Default: json )
result > total_results	Returns the estimated total results about your search term.
result > top_ads	Returns as Array if there are ads about your search term
result > organic_results	Returns the search results as an object with (position, block_position, title, link, description) keys in organic_results array