Serper Images API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Serper Google Search Autocomplete Images API
  description: RESTful API providing real-time Google Search Engine Results Page (SERP) data in structured JSON format. Supports web search, image search, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, and autocomplete via POST endpoints. Authentication uses an X-API-KEY header. Designed for high-throughput AI and LLM applications with up to 300 queries per second.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Serper Support
    url: https://serper.dev
  termsOfService: https://serper.dev/terms-of-service
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://serper.dev
servers:
- url: https://google.serper.dev
  description: Serper API server
security:
- apiKeyHeader: []
tags:
- name: Images
  description: Image search results
paths:
  /images:
    post:
      operationId: imageSearch
      summary: Image Search
      description: Perform a Google Image search and receive structured results including image URLs, dimensions, thumbnails, source domains, and links.
      tags:
      - Images
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchRequest'
            example:
              q: lion
              gl: us
              hl: en
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful image search response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ImageSearchResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
components:
  schemas:
    SearchParameters:
      type: object
      properties:
        q:
          type: string
          description: The search query.
        gl:
          type: string
          description: Country code.
        hl:
          type: string
          description: Language code.
        type:
          type: string
          description: The type of search performed.
        num:
          type: integer
          description: Number of results requested.
        page:
          type: integer
          description: Page number.
    SearchRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - q
      properties:
        q:
          type: string
          description: The search query string.
          example: google search
        gl:
          type: string
          description: Country code for geolocation of results (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).
          example: us
          default: us
        hl:
          type: string
          description: Language code for results (ISO 639-1).
          example: en
          default: en
        num:
          type: integer
          description: Number of results to return (1-100).
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
          default: 10
          example: 10
        page:
          type: integer
          description: Page number for pagination.
          minimum: 1
          default: 1
          example: 1
        tbs:
          type: string
          description: Time-based search filter. Use values like 'qdr:h' (past hour), 'qdr:d' (past day), 'qdr:w' (past week), 'qdr:m' (past month), 'qdr:y' (past year).
          example: qdr:d
        autocorrect:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether to enable autocorrect for the query.
          default: true
    ImageSearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        searchParameters:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchParameters'
        images:
          type: array
          description: Image search results.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ImageResult'
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error description.
    ImageResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          description: Image page title.
        imageUrl:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Direct URL to the full-size image.
        imageWidth:
          type: integer
          description: Width of the image in pixels.
        imageHeight:
          type: integer
          description: Height of the image in pixels.
        thumbnailUrl:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: URL to the thumbnail image.
        thumbnailWidth:
          type: integer
          description: Width of the thumbnail in pixels.
        thumbnailHeight:
          type: integer
          description: Height of the thumbnail in pixels.
        source:
          type: string
          description: Source website name.
        domain:
          type: string
          description: Domain of the source website.
        link:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: URL of the page containing the image.
        googleUrl:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Google image result URL.
        position:
          type: integer
          description: Position in image results.
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized — invalid or missing API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request — missing or invalid parameters.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Too many requests — rate limit exceeded or credits exhausted.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-KEY
      description: API key obtained from https://serper.dev/api-key