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Serper Locations API

Canonical Google geo-target lookup for the location parameter used by every Serper search endpoint, plus a service health check. The only Serper surface that answers unauthenticated.

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Operations 2

GET /locations Search supported locations #

GET /health Service health #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Serper Locations API
  description: Lookup service for the canonical location values accepted by the `location` parameter on Serper's search endpoints. Serper's own playground links this endpoint as the published "list of supported locations". It answers unauthenticated.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Serper Support
    url: https://serper.dev
    email: support@serper.dev
  termsOfService: https://serper.dev/terms
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://serper.dev
  x-provenance:
    method: probed
    generated: '2026-08-13'
    source: https://api.serper.dev/locations?q=new&limit=25 — HTTP 200, application/json, probed unauthenticated 2026-08-13. Endpoint and parameters read from Serper's own playground bundle (https://serper.dev/_next/static/chunks/pages/playground-7ce8960e9fe2fc99.js), which calls GET /locations?q=<term>&limit=25 and links it to users as the supported-locations reference.
    note: Response schema below is transcribed from a real observed 200 response body, not invented.
servers:
- url: https://api.serper.dev
  description: Serper platform API host
tags:
- name: Locations
  description: Canonical search-location lookup
paths:
  /locations:
    get:
      operationId: listLocations
      summary: Search supported locations
      description: Return canonical Google location targets matching a search term. The returned `canonicalName` is the value to pass as the `location` parameter on Serper's search endpoints.
      tags:
      - Locations
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: Location search term.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        example: new
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of locations to return.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 25
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An array of matching locations.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Location'
              example:
              - name: New Caledonia
                canonicalName: New Caledonia
                googleId: 2540
                countryCode: NC
                targetType: Country
              - name: New South Wales
                canonicalName: New South Wales,Australia
                googleId: 20035
                countryCode: AU
                targetType: State
  /health:
    get:
      operationId: getHealth
      summary: Service health
      description: Unauthenticated health check. Observed returning {"status":"ok","info":{"database":{"status":"up"}},...} on 2026-08-13.
      tags:
      - Locations
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Health report.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  status:
                    type: string
                    description: Overall service status.
                  info:
                    type: object
                    additionalProperties: true
                    description: Per-dependency status.
                  error:
                    type: object
                    additionalProperties: true
                  details:
                    type: object
                    additionalProperties: true
components:
  schemas:
    Location:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Display name of the location.
        canonicalName:
          type: string
          description: Fully qualified location string, e.g. "New South Wales,Australia". This is the value passed to the `location` parameter on search endpoints.
        googleId:
          type: integer
          description: Google geo target criteria ID.
        countryCode:
          type: string
          description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
        targetType:
          type: string
          description: Granularity of the target, e.g. Country, State, City.