{"slug": "serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026", "title": "SerpApi Weekly Changelog: August 03 - 09, 2026", "summary": "SerpApi introduced direct image uploads for its Google Lens API, adding an image_id parameter that lets developers submit local image files instead of hosting them on public URLs, simplifying visual search workflows for e-commerce and product recognition tools. The weekly changelog also detailed bug fixes and improvements across Google Ads, Google News, Instagram Profile, Tripadvisor Place, Google AI Overview, DuckDuckGo Search, Google Shopping, Google Patents Details, Google Lens, and Google Finance APIs.", "body_md": "The week at SerpApi brought new APIs, features, expanded scraping capabilities, steady improvements to existing APIs, and a range of important bug fixes.\n\n## ⭐️ Top Updates\n\n[Introducing direct image uploads for the Google Lens API](https://serpapi.com/google-lens-upload-an-image)\n\nWe've expanded our Google Lens API with a new `image_id`\n\nparameter, enabling developers to perform visual searches by directly uploading local image files rather than hosting them on public URLs. By submitting an image file to our [Image API](https://serpapi.com/image-api) and generating an `image_id`\n\n, you can seamlessly pass this ID into your Google Lens API requests to retrieve visual matches, product details, exact matches, and extracted text in a structured format. This eliminates the need for external cloud storage and simplifies file handling, making it ideal for e-commerce visual search tools, AI-powered product recognition engines, digital asset management systems, and automated inventory cataloging workflows that process direct user uploads. [Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/948)\n\n## 📑 Full List of Updates\n\n[Google Ads API](https://serpapi.com/google-ads-api)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract multiple fields from the carousel section.\n[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4096)\n\n[Google News Results API](https://serpapi.com/news-results)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API was returning empty results for some searches.\n[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4103) - We have fixed the issue where the API was timing out when\n`tbs`\n\nparameter was being used.[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4091)\n\n[Instagram Profile API](https://serpapi.com/instagram-profile-api)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API was returning empty results for some searches.\n[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4044)\n\n[Tripadvisor Place API](https://serpapi.com/tripadvisor-place-api)\n\n**Improvements**\n\n- We have improved the success rate and response time of the API.\n[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4114)\n\n[Google AI Overview API](https://serpapi.com/google-ai-overview-api)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API would return empty results for some searches.\n[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4078)\n\n**DuckDuckGo Search API**\n\n**DuckDuckGo Search API**\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.\n\n[Google Shopping API](https://serpapi.com/google-shopping-api)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API would return a 500 error in some cases.\n\n[Google Patents Details API](https://serpapi.com/google-patents-details-api)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API would merge the original and translated text into one field, instead of extracting them separately.\n[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/2744)\n\n[Google Lens API](https://serpapi.com/google-lens-api)\n\n**Features**\n\n- We have added support for extracting\n`organic_results`\n\nand`short_videos`\n\nsections.[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4076)\n\n[Google Finance API](https://serpapi.com/google-finance-api)\n\n**Bug fixes**\n\n- We have fixed the issue where the API was missing to extract\n`graph`\n\nand`summary`\n\nresults.[Details](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4124)\n\n### 💬 We’d Love Your Feedback\n\nYour input helps us improve. If something’s not working as expected, or if there’s a feature you’d love to see, let us know. You can reach us at any time at contact@serpapi.com. Or you can open an issue on our [Public Roadmap](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap).\n\nThanks for building with SerpApi!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026", "canonical_source": "https://serpapi.com/blog/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026/", "published_at": "2026-08-10 12:15:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 12:41:28.528203+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["SerpApi", "Google Lens API", "Google Ads API", "Google News Results API", "Instagram Profile API", "Tripadvisor Place API", "Google AI Overview API", "DuckDuckGo Search API"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/serpapi-weekly-changelog-august-03-09-2026.jsonld"}}