Google SERP API: Async Structured Data in PHP

Scrape Google SERP into structured JSON/CSV with ScraperAPI async in PHP. Extract product info, filter by region and language, and automate SERP insights.

This endpoint will retrieve search data from a Google search result page and transform it into usable JSON.

Single Query Request:

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

$data = json_encode(array(
    'apiKey' => 'APIKEY',
    'query' => 'QUERY',
    'tld' => 'TLD',
    'uule' => 'UULE',
    'num' => 'NUM',
    'hl' => 'HOSTLANGUAGE',
    'gl' => 'GUESTLANGUAGE',
    'ie' => 'QUERYENCODING',
    'oe' => 'RESULTENCODING',
    'start' => 'START',
    'callback' => array(
        'type' => 'webhook',
        'url' => 'CALLBACK'
    )
));

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/google/search',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

if (curl_errno($curl)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($curl);
} else {
    echo $response;
}

curl_close($curl);

?>

Multiple Query Request:

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

$data = json_encode(array(
    'apiKey' => 'APIKEY',
    'queries' => array('QUERY1', 'QUERY2', 'QUERY3'),
    'tld' => 'TLD',
    'uule' => 'UULE',
    'num' => 'NUM',
    'hl' => 'HOSTLANGUAGE',
    'gl' => 'GUESTLANGUAGE',
    'ie' => 'QUERYENCODING',
    'oe' => 'RESULTENCODING',
    'start' => 'START',
    'callback' => array(
        'type' => 'webhook',
        'url' => 'CALLBACK'
    )
));

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/google/search',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

if (curl_errno($curl)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($curl);
} else {
    echo $response;
}

curl_close($curl);

?>

Parameter	Details
API_KEY(required)	User's normal API Key
QUERY(required)	Query keywords that a user wants to search for
COUNTRY_CODE	Valid values are two letter country codes for which we offer Geo Targeting (e.g. “au”, “es”, “it”, etc.). Where a Google domain needs to be scraped from another country (e.g. scraping google.com from Canada), both TLD and COUNTRY_CODE parameters must be specified.
TLD	Country of Google domain to scrape. This is an optional argument and defaults to “com” (google.com). Valid values include: com (google.com) co.uk (google.co.uk) ca (google.ca) de (google.de) es (google.es) fr (google.fr) it (google.it) co.jp (google.co.jp) in (google.in) cn (google.cn) com.sg (google.com.sg) com.mx (google.com.mx) ae (google.ae) com.br (google.com.br) nl (google.nl) com.au (google.com.au) com.tr (google.com.tr) sa (google.sa) se (google.se) pl (google.pl)
OUTPUT_FORMAT	For structured data methods we offer CSV and JSON output. JSON is default if parameter is not added. Options: csv json

Google parameters supported by this endpoint

Google Parameters	Details
UULE	Set a region for a search. For example: w+CAIQICINUGFyaXMsIEZyYW5jZQ. You can find an online UULE generator here.
NUM	Number of results
HL	Host Language. For example: DE
GL	Boosts matches whose country of origin matches the parameter value. For example: DE
TBS	Limits results to a specific time range. For example: tbs=d returns results from the past day. Possible values: tbs=h - Hour tbs=d - Day tbs=w - Week tbs=m - Month tbs=y - Year
IE	Character encoding how the engine interpret the query string. For example: UTF8
OE	Character encoding used for the results. For example: UTF8
START	Set the starting offset in the result list. When start=10 set the first element in the result list will be the 10th search result. (meaning it starts with page 2 of results if the "num" is 10)

Sample Response

Single Query Request:

{
	"id": "89b388bf-0cea-49c1-8db6-9e00042c8c3a",
	"status": "running",
	"statusUrl": "https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/google/search/89b388bf-0cea-49c1-8db6-9e00042c8c3a",
	"query": "webscraping"
}

Multiple Query Request:

[
	{
		"id": "2955ad23-c812-475c-bc52-572576815d78",
		"status": "running",
		"statusUrl": "http://async.scraperapi.com/structured/google/search/2955ad23-c812-475c-bc52-572576815d78",
		"query": "webscraping"
	},
	{
		"id": "120a7344-7832-4fd0-a64f-ce9cd39726f3",
		"status": "running",
		"statusUrl": "https://async.scraperapi.com/structured/google/search/120a7344-7832-4fd0-a64f-ce9cd39726f3",
		"query": "data grabbing"
	}
]

After the job(s) finish, you will find the result under the response key in the response JSON object. The structure is the same as in the corresponding SYNC data endpoint.