Google search scraper API in 2026

Keep the code you wrote for SerpApi or Scrapingdog

Most Google scraper code reads organic_results[]. SpecStream answers the SerpApi call at https://api.specstream.ai/serpapi/search.json and the Scrapingdog call at https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingdog/google, each in that API's own JSON. Change the address and the key, and the parser stays as it is.

# Before
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/google?query=football&api_key=$SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY"

# After
curl "https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingdog/google?query=football&api_key=$SPECSTREAM_API_KEY"

Serper, SearchApi, Scale SERP, SerpWow, VALUE SERP, serpstack, Zenserp, DataForSEO and Google Custom Search answer the same way. Each call is one search at $0.001 for up to 10 results. GET https://api.specstream.ai/v1/search-dialects lists every address with one curl line, and needs no key.

One call returns the answer and the pages behind it

A results page gives links, and your code still opens each page and reads the fact. A SpecStream search returns the value with the page it was read on and the time it was read, then every source in rank order. With passages=true, each source carries an excerpt of its page, so your model reads the evidence without a second call.

curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v1/web-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "q=Who is the CEO of Mistral AI" \
  -d num=10 -d passages=true

The most accurate web search API in the world

The SpecStream Search API scores a 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, with 978 correct, and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The scores and the method are at specstream.ai/benchmarks.

100 results in one search for $0.0118

A Google results page holds about 10 results, so 100 results are 10 billed pages on Scrape.do and on Apify. On SpecStream num asks for 1 to 100 results in one search. Up to 10 cost $0.001, and each started block of 10 more adds $0.0012. A call that returns no results costs nothing, and a busy call gets a 429 with Retry-After and is not charged.

One request returns the whole dataset

With a results API, a dataset is a loop your team writes: many queries, a read of every link, a check of every result and a join into one record. On SpecStream you write the request once, for companies, places, filings, tenders or products, and get every match as a row that meets each condition, with the source URL and read time on every value. A row with up to 5 facts costs 5¢, and the searches and pages behind it are not billed.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. The Search API returns ranked results at $1 per 1,000 searches and the answer with its page at $5, and scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions. The Extract API reads pages at $0.80 per 1,000, and Deep Search returns every match as rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1.

SerpApi

A Google results API sold month to month: the Starter plan is $25 a month for 1,000 searches, and the free plan has 250 searches a month. SpecStream answers SerpApi's own call in SerpApi's JSON at $1 per 1,000 searches, with no monthly plan.

Apify Google Search Scraper

An Apify Actor priced per results page: $2.50 per 1,000 pages on Starter, from $1.80 on higher plans, and about 100 results take 10 pages. The Free plan gives $5 of credit. SpecStream returns up to 100 results in one search for $0.0118, with no run or dataset to read.

Decodo

A Web Data API listed from $0.15 per 1,000 requests, with plans from $19 a month for up to 38K pages scraped. It returns HTML, CSV, JSON or Markdown, and you pay for successful requests only. SpecStream returns the ranked results and the answer with its page in one call, from $1 per 1,000 searches, with no plan.