SearchApi

SearchApi is a real-time SERP and search-data API that gives applications and AI agents structured access to results from 100+ search engines — Google Search, Google Maps, Google News, Google Scholar, Google Images, Google Shopping, Google Trends, Google Jobs, YouTube, Bing, Baidu, and marketplace engines like Amazon, Walmart, and eBay — returning clean JSON instead of scraped HTML. It handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and geographic/locale targeting server-side, and ships an MCP server plus "use-case bundles" that group selected endpoints around a job so agents can be handed a capability rather than a whole catalog. Used for SEO/rank tracking, market and price intelligence, RAG grounding, and agentic research workflows.

SearchApi publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: SERP API, Account & Analytics API, and Analytics API. Tagged areas include Search, SERP API, Google Search, Web Scraping, and Search data.

SearchApi’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, pricing, signup flow, support, changelog, authentication, and 29 more developer resources.

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50.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent native saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Search SERP API Google Search Web ScrapingSearch dataMarket Intelligence SEO MCP agent-native

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scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

Composite quality — 50.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 3.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 20

Access Clarity 18.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 8.6 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Searchapi Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

PostmanCollection

PostmanCollection

OpenCollection

OpenCollection

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

OAuthScopes

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: searchapi
name: SearchApi
description: SearchApi is a real-time SERP and search-data API that gives applications and AI agents structured access to
  results from 100+ search engines — Google Search, Google Maps, Google News, Google Scholar, Google Images, Google Shopping,
  Google Trends, Google Jobs, YouTube, Bing, Baidu, and marketplace engines like Amazon, Walmart, and eBay — returning clean
  JSON instead of scraped HTML. It handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and geographic/locale targeting server-side, and
  ships an MCP server plus "use-case bundles" that group selected endpoints around a job so agents can be handed a capability
  rather than a whole catalog. Used for SEO/rank tracking, market and price intelligence, RAG grounding, and agentic research
  workflows.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.searchapi.io/og-image.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/searchapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: engagement:searchapi
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: engagement
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-23'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Search
- SERP API
- Google Search
- Web Scraping
- Search data
- Market Intelligence
- SEO
- MCP
- agent-native
tags_raw:
- search
- serp-api
- google-search
- web-scraping
- search-data
- market-intelligence
- seo
- mcp
- agent-native
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/users/sign_up
- type: Login
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/users/sign_in
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@searchapi.io
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SearchApi
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/legal/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.searchapi.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Announcements changelog
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/announcements
- type: Postman
  name: SearchApi Official Postman Collection
  url: https://www.postman.com/searchapiofficial/searchapi-official-postman-collection/
- type: Compliance
  name: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 + GDPR (DPA)
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/legal/dpa
- type: MCPServer
  name: SearchApi hosted MCP server
  url: mcp/searchapi-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/searchapi-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/searchapi-conventions.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/searchapi-packages.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Structured changelog artifact
  url: changelog/searchapi-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/searchapi-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/searchapi-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/searchapi-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  name: SearchApi trust center
  url: security/searchapi-trust-center.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/searchapi-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  name: Well-known probe (OAuth AS + protected-resource metadata served)
  url: well-known/searchapi-well-known.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  name: OAuth scopes (MCP surface)
  url: scopes/searchapi-scopes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/searchapi-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/searchapi-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/searchapi-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/searchapi-data-model.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  name: MCP tool to REST operation crosswalk
  url: mcp/searchapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Packaged Agent Skills
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist enhancements overlay
  url: overlays/searchapi-search-api-overlay.yaml
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: collections/searchapi-search-api.postman_collection.json
- type: OpenCollection
  url: collections/searchapi-search-api.opencollection.json
apis:
- name: SearchApi SERP API
  description: REST API returning structured JSON search results across 100+ engines (Google, Bing, Maps, News, Scholar, Images,
    Shopping, Trends, Jobs, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, eBay). Single /api/v1/search endpoint parameterized by engine, with
    server-side proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling, and location/locale targeting. Bearer API-key auth.
  humanURL: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
  baseURL: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search
  tags:
  - Search
  - SERP API
  - Google Search
  - Search data
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - search
  - serp-api
  - google-search
  - search-data
  - mcp
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: SearchApi SERP API (generated from docs)
    url: openapi/searchapi-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/searchapi-authentication.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/searchapi-mcp.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/searchapi-search-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/searchapi-problem-types.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/searchapi-rate-limits.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/searchapi-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/searchapi-conventions.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/searchapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchapi-search-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchapi-search-api.opencollection.json
  - type: AgentSkill
    name: Grounded web research
    url: skills/searchapi-grounded-web-research.md
- name: SearchApi Account & Analytics API
  description: The two account-management endpoints SearchApi documents alongside its SERP surface. GET /api/v1/me returns
    the calling key's monthly allowance, month-to-date usage, remaining credits, searches made in the current hour and the
    hourly rate limit. GET /api/v1/search_analytics returns aggregated success rate, error rate and latency for the account's
    own searches, bucketed daily or hourly and optionally filtered to a single engine. These are the only endpoints exposing
    runtime quota and reliability signal — SearchApi returns no rate-limit response headers, so polling /api/v1/me is the
    sole machine-readable view of remaining headroom.
  humanURL: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/account-api
  baseURL: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Account
  - Usage
  - Rate Limits
  - Analytics
  - Observability
  tags_raw:
  - account
  - usage
  - rate-limits
  - analytics
  - observability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: SearchApi Account & Analytics API (generated from docs)
    url: openapi/searchapi-account-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/account-api
  - type: APIReference
    name: Search Analytics API
    url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/search-analytics-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/searchapi-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/searchapi-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/searchapi-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    name: Quota-aware batch searching
    url: skills/searchapi-quota-aware-batch.md
- aid: searchapi:searchapi-analytics-api
  name: SearchApi Analytics API
  description: Aggregated performance and error analytics for the account's own searches.
  humanURL: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
  baseURL: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search
  tags:
  - Analytics
  tags_raw:
  - analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchapi-analytics-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1

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