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The SERP API returns parsed Google search results as JSON. You make a single GET request to the search host, authenticated with HTTP Basic Auth, and get back the organic results, related searches, and — optionally — the raw HTML of the results page.
The SERP API is billed by credits: each successful search consumes credits from your active SERP API plan. Add a SERP API package and top up credits from the dashboard.

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How it works

  1. Order a SERP API package and create a sub-user from the dashboard. Each sub-user has its own username / password — these are the credentials you send as HTTP Basic Auth.
  2. Send a GET request to the search host with your query parameters. See the Search reference for the full parameter list.
  3. Read the JSON response — organic results live under results[0].Organic.
curl "https://serp.api.proxyscrape.com/?q=proxyscrape&gl=us&hl=en&start=0&rawhtml=0" \
  -u "<sub-user-username>:<sub-user-password>"

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Authentication

Every request uses HTTP Basic Auth. The username and password are the credentials of a SERP API sub-user, not your ProxyScrape account login.
  • Create and manage sub-users in the dashboard under Services → SERP API.
  • Credentials are sent with the standard Authorization: Basic <base64> header — any HTTP client’s basic-auth helper (-u for cURL, auth for axios/requests) builds this for you.

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Try it in the dashboard

The SERP API playground lets you build a request, run it against your own sub-user, and copy ready-to-run code in NodeJS, Python, PHP, and cURL: Open the SERP API playground →

Search reference

Full parameter list, response shape, and code samples for the search endpoint.

Product page

Pricing, credit packages, and feature overview.