Web Scraping and Data Extraction using SERP API with Nodejs

in this article, we’ll let you know how to use serp api with nodejs. The SerpApi is a popular API service that allows you to scrape search engine results pages (SERPs) from various search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

You can use Scrape API results for SEO analysis, data research, and more.

Developers can send requests to the SERP API with specific search queries and parameters. This will return structured data that can be integrated into their applications.

What’s Search API

The Search Engine Results Page(SERP API) is a tool or service that allows developers to retrieve data from search engine results pages (SERPs) programmatically. You can get results from Google, Bing, or Yahoo in respect to search query.

You may have limited API calls per day, Its depends on your subscription plan.

Node.js Search Engine Results Integration

In the following steps, you will learn how to seamlessly integrate the SERP API in order to access real time SERP data.

Sign Up for SerpApi

You need to sign up for SerpApi to get an API key. Go to SerpApi’s website and create an account. After signing up, you will receive an API key that you’ll use to authenticate your requests.

Example:

https://serpapi.com/search?api_key=API_SECRET_KEY

Install Dependencies

You will need to install the Axios library to make HTTP requests to the SerpApi service. You can install it using npm:

npm install axios

Fetch search results from Google

Let’s call SERP API using axios to fetch search results from Google.

const axios = require('axios');

// Your SerpApi API Key
const apiKey = 'YOUR_SERPAPI_API_KEY';

// Search query
const query = 'your search query';

// Define the search engine (e.g., 'google' or 'bing')
const searchEngine = 'google';

// Construct the URL for the API request
const apiUrl = `https://serpapi.com/search.json?q=${query}&engine=${searchEngine}&api_key=${apiKey}`;

// Make the API request
axios.get(apiUrl)
  .then(response => {
    const searchResults = response.data;
    // Process and use the search results here
    console.log(searchResults);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error('Error:', error);
  });

• Replace ‘YOUR_SERPAPI_API_KEY‘ with the API key you obtained from SerpApi signup.
• Replace ‘your search query‘ with the query you want to search for.
• Define the Search engine name.
• Create the apiUrl with searchEngine and query.
• Execute an Axios GET request to retrieve data from apiUrl.

Parsing and Making Use of SERPs Results:

Once we have received the response from SerpApi. You can parse and use the search results as needed for your application. The response data is usually in JSON format and can access various details about each search result as like titles, URLs, and snippets.

.then((response) => {
    const searchResults = response.data.organic_results;

    // Extract titles, URLs, and snippets
    searchResults.forEach((result, index) => {
      const title = result.title;
      const url = result.link;
      const snippet = result.snippet;

      console.log(`Result ${index + 1}:`);
      console.log(`Title: ${title}`);
      console.log(`URL: ${url}`);
      console.log(`Snippet: ${snippet}`);
      console.log('\n');
    });
  })

Handle Errors:

We also need to handle errors properly in our code. The API network requests may fail or encounter issues and catch the error in catch block and print into the console.

.catch((error) => {
    console.error('Error fetching SERP data:', error);
  });

Conclusion

In this tutorial, We have learned the SerpApi service integration with our Node.js application to scrape search engine results and extract valuable data. You can get more advanced features and options from documentation.