OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
title: Serper Google Search Autocomplete Shopping 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: Shopping
description: Product and shopping search results
paths:
/shopping:
post:
operationId: shoppingSearch
summary: Shopping Search
description: Perform a Google Shopping search returning product listings with titles, prices, sources, delivery info, ratings, images, and product IDs.
tags:
- Shopping
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchRequest'
example:
q: Nike Air Max
gl: us
hl: en
responses:
'200':
description: Successful shopping search response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ShoppingSearchResponse'
'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.
ShoppingResult:
type: object
properties:
title:
type: string
description: Product name.
source:
type: string
description: Merchant/retailer name.
link:
type: string
format: uri
description: URL to the product listing.
price:
type: string
description: Product price (formatted string, e.g., "$104.97").
delivery:
type: string
description: Delivery information (e.g., "Free shipping", "$8.00 shipping").
imageUrl:
type: string
format: uri
description: Product image URL.
rating:
type: number
format: float
description: Product rating (1-5).
ratingCount:
type: integer
description: Number of reviews/ratings.
offers:
type: string
description: Number of merchant offers (e.g., "10+").
productId:
type: string
description: Google product ID.
position:
type: integer
description: Position in shopping results.
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
ShoppingSearchResponse:
type: object
properties:
searchParameters:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchParameters'
shopping:
type: array
description: Shopping search results.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ShoppingResult'
ErrorResponse:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
description: Human-readable error description.
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