Google Search Results Scraper

Google Search Results Scraper: organic listings, ads and People Also Ask for one query

Type one Google query and get the results page back as rows: organic listings with their rank, the ads above them, the People Also Ask questions and the related searches at the bottom. You pick the country, the language, the Google domain and how many pages to follow.

One thing to check before you wire it into anything. The url on a result row is the link exactly as Google printed it, and that is not always the destination: in the real row below it came back as a google.com/goto?url=... redirect, with the publisher's name sitting in displayedUrl instead.

🔍 What Google Search Results Scraper does

It runs your query against the Google domain you name, reads the results page, and turns it into four kinds of row.

Organic rows carry the title, the link, the domain, the displayed URL, the snippet and the rank. Ad rows carry the same shape for the paid results Google marks as such. People Also Ask rows carry the question and the answer text Google shows when the box is expanded in the HTML. Related search rows carry the phrases printed at the bottom.

Set maxPages above 1 and it follows Google's own Next link, page by page, stopping when your row limit is reached or Google runs out of pages. Duplicate links are dropped across pages, so a listing that appears twice arrives once.

📥 What you give it

{
  "query": "best running shoes site:runnersworld.com",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "googleDomain": "google.com",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxPages": 2
}

There is one more field the schema does not show: proxyUrls, an array of your own server URLs. Pass it and those are tried first, verbatim.

Setting useApifyProxy to false inside proxyConfiguration does not take effect. The run routes itself either way. If you want your own servers used, list them rather than switching the object off.

📤 What you get back

A real organic row from a recent run, with the long link and the snippet cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "organic",
  "title": "The 15 Best Running Shoes of 2026",
  "url": "https://google.com/goto?url=CAESdwHrOzAV7FPP0O3re4bWugQoRsUlWFw65cAN47wAxFn...",
  "domain": "google.com",
  "displayedUrl": "Runner's World",
  "snippet": "Aug 3, 2026 ... For new runners we recommend a shoe like the Brooks Ghost or Nike Pegasus as a starting point. ...Read more",
  "rank": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "query": "best running shoes",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "googleDomain": "google.com",
  "transport": "proxy_fallback_serp",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-14T05:43:56.720Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Filter on ok being true with _sample absent. An empty query writes the sample row and stops, so you can see the shape first.

The Overview table hides answer, displayedUrl and the diagnostic fields, so a run that produced only a diagnostic looks almost blank there. Switch the dataset to JSON to read it.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Google Search Results Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put your search in Search query, replacing the example. 3. Set Maximum results. Ten is a sensible first run. 4. Change Google domain, Country code and Language if you want another country's view, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$1.00 per 1,000 rows. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

Every row that lands is one result, whether it is organic, an ad, a People Also Ask entry or a related search. maxResults caps all four together, so it also caps what a run can bill: set it to 10 and ten rows is the most you can be charged for, however many pages get read.

The sample row, every diagnostic row and a query that finds nothing are not billed as results.

💡 What people use it for

• Tracking where a page ranks for a keyword, week by week, with rank and page already split out.
• Pulling the People Also Ask questions for a topic to see what the audience actually asks.
• Checking which advertisers sit above the organic results for a commercial term in one country.
• Running the same query across google.com, google.co.uk and google.de to compare what each

country sees.

🚧 What it does not do

• Related searches collapse into one row. Measured on a page carrying nine related phrases: one

related_search row came out, and its query held the search that was typed, not the phrase. The phrase is only readable inside url. Turn includeRelatedSearches off if you do not need it.

• With a small maxResults, ads are taken first. Cap a run at 5 on an advert-heavy term and ads

can use most of the budget. Switch includeAds off if you only want organic rows.

• A failure on page two or later throws away the earlier rows. With maxPages above 1, a run

that trips on a later page writes a diagnostic and no results. Keep maxPages at 1 when one page is better than nothing.

• Four kinds of row, and no more. No local pack, no shopping carousel, no news box, no knowledge

panel.

• Ads and People Also Ask are spotted from how Google marks them up, so a layout change on

Google's side can leave some of them out until the parser catches up.

• One query per run. Feed a keyword list by scheduling or looping runs.
• Rows are a snapshot of that page at that moment. Rankings move daily.

🧭 Which Google scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Google API key? No. Nothing to apply for, no quota to watch.

Can I search more than one keyword at a time? Not in one run. query takes a single search. Use a schedule or a loop for a list.

Do Google search operators work? Yes. site:, intitle:, quoted phrases, OR and minus terms all go straight through.

Why did I get fewer rows than maxResults? Google decides how much it prints. A narrow query, or one with site: on a small domain, often runs out before your limit does.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Runs are independent, so a daily rank check is just a schedule with the same query.

Is scraping Google Search legal? These are public search results. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the query and the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.