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January 2025: Update

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Here’s what’s new this month at SearchApi, along with a preview of exciting updates coming your way.

​Yahoo API​

Yahoo API is now part of our growing SERP API family, joining Google, Bing, Baidu, and others. It provides rich data, including:
  • Organic results
  • Ads
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Answer boxes
  • Local results
  • Inline images
  • Inline videos
  • Related questions
  • Top stories
  • Trending searches

To simplify integration, the JSON response keys are consistent across all our supported SERP engines.

​YouTube Channel Videos API​

The YouTube Channel Videos API makes accessing detailed video data easy. This includes:
  • Titles
  • View counts
  • Video durations
  • Thumbnails
  • Publication times
  • Video descriptions

YouTube Channel Videos API also supports sorting by Popular or Oldest tabs to help you filter the videos as needed.

​Google Lens API​ Update


Google Lens transitioned its desktop interface to a new layout on January 2, 2025. We adapted immediately, rolling out support for the updated layout within an hour.
Here’s what’s new:

No action required: If you weren’t using visual_matches.exact_price or haven't been using `exact_matches` your integration will continue to work smoothly.

🔧 Engine Improvements:


Google Search API

  • Fixed ads.sitelinks selectors.

Bing Search API

  • Added default country=US and language=en parameters.

Google Scholar Author API

  • Updated citation.description value to preserve newlines.

Google Jobs

  • Fixed jobs.thumbnail extraction.
  • Resolved issues where next_page_token appeared with no more matches.

Other

  • Shortened documentation examples

⏭️ What's coming next?


  • Enhanced Speed plans ⚡
  • Google Hotels API
  • Google Reverse Image API
  • Google Trends Trending Now API
  • Yandex Search API
  • Google AI Overview
  • Base64 image hosting on our side. This will shorten the LLM context if you want to use raw JSON responses.

We’re constantly improving to serve you better.