SerpApi Weekly Changelog: October 26 - November 1, 2026

SerpApi released five new scraping APIs in its changelog for October 26 to November 1, 2026: Google Books, Google Translate, Meta Ad Library, Facebook Marketplace, and Instagram Popular. The Google Translate API translates up to 5,000 characters across 249 supported languages, while the Google Books API returns title, book_id, authors, and per-author serpapi_link data and is also triggered by Google Search API queries using tbm=bks. SerpApi positions the new endpoints for developers building book discovery, localization, ad monitoring, resale tracking, and AI agent tools.

The past week at SerpApi brought new APIs, features, expanded scraping capabilities, steady improvements to existing APIs, and a range of important bug fixes. ⭐️ Top Updates Google Books API https://serpapi.com/google-books-api We've added the new Google Books API, making it easy to scrape results from the Books tab of Google Search. Search any query, including with operators such as intitle: , inauthor: , and isbn: , and filter results by document type books, magazines, or newspapers , by preview or full view, and by publication date. For each result, the API returns its title, link, book id , thumbnail, authors, date, snippet, and a link to other editions, and each author comes with a serpapi link to their other books. Google Search API searches with tbm=bks now also return Google Books API results. It's ideal for developers building book discovery and recommendation apps, library and publishing tools, research assistants, and AI agents that need book data. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/63 Google Translate API https://serpapi.com/google-translate-api We've added the new Google Translate API, making it easy to translate text with Google Translate. Translate up to 5,000 characters between any of the 249 supported languages https://serpapi.com/google-translate-languages , or let Google detect the source language with from=auto . The API returns the translation with its pronunciation, the detected language and its confidence, alternative translations, and sentence-by-sentence results. For single words, it also returns dictionary data, such as definitions, examples, parts of speech, and gender-specific translations. It's ideal for developers building localization and multilingual content tools, language learning apps, cross-language research, and AI agents that need translations. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/157 Meta Ad Library API https://serpapi.com/meta-ad-library-api We've added the new Meta Ad Library API, making it easy to scrape ads from the Meta Ad Library across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Threads, and the Audience Network. Search by keyword, by advertiser page, or both, filter ads by country, ad category, active status, media type, platform, language, and date range, and sort them like the Ad Library does. For each ad, the API returns its Library ID, run dates, platforms, advertiser page, text, images, videos, carousel cards, and call to action, plus the amount spent, impressions, estimated audience size, and who paid for it on political and social issue ads. It's ideal for developers building competitor ad monitoring and marketing intelligence tools, political ad research and transparency platforms, and AI agents that need advertising data. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/1205 Facebook Marketplace API https://serpapi.com/facebook-marketplace-api We've added the new Facebook Marketplace API, making it easy to scrape listings from Facebook Marketplace. Search by keyword, by Marketplace category, or both, around any location or GPS coordinates within the radius you choose, filter listings by price, condition, date listed, delivery method, and availability, and sort them like Marketplace does. For each listing, the API returns its title, price and previous price, location, listing time, delivery types, seller, and thumbnail. When nothing matches exactly, it also returns the similar listings Marketplace suggests instead. It's ideal for developers building resale price tracking tools, local market research platforms, and AI shopping agents that need second-hand marketplace data. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/2885 Instagram Popular API https://serpapi.com/instagram-popular-api We've added the new Instagram Popular API, making it easy to scrape the posts on Instagram's Popular page for any keyword. For each post, the API returns its link, image, caption, view count, video URLs, and creator, with a link to the creator in the Instagram Profile API https://serpapi.com/instagram-profile-api , along with Instagram's description of the keyword and related keywords. Use next page token to get more posts. It's ideal for developers building social listening and trend discovery tools, influencer marketing platforms, content research, and AI agents that need popular Instagram content. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3979 Google Finance Autocomplete API https://serpapi.com/google-finance-autocomplete-api We've added the new Google Finance Autocomplete API, making it easy to get the suggestions of the Google Finance search box. For any query, such as a company name, the API returns matching stocks, indexes, mutual funds, currencies, futures, and, in the US, prediction markets and private markets, grouped like Google Finance's filters. Each suggestion includes its symbol, name, exchange, price, and price movement, and results with a symbol come with a serpapi google finance link to the Google Finance API https://serpapi.com/google-finance-api . It's ideal for developers building stock search and ticker lookup, portfolio and trading apps, financial data pipelines, and AI agents that need to resolve a company name to a ticker. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/1905 Baidu Maps API https://serpapi.com/baidu-maps-api We've added the new Baidu Maps API, making it easy to scrape places from Baidu Maps. Search any query in a city, using its Baidu Maps city code https://serpapi.com/baidu-maps-cities , or around GPS coordinates, and page through the results. For each place, the API returns its name, type, rating and reviews, price, address, phone number, opening hours, GPS coordinates, thumbnail, and user reviews, plus its distance for searches around coordinates. It's ideal for developers building local SEO and listing management tools, Chinese market research platforms, travel apps, and AI agents that need local business data from China. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/662 Trader Joe's Search API https://serpapi.com/trader-joes-search-api and Trader Joe's Product API https://serpapi.com/trader-joes-product-api We've added the new Trader Joe's Search API and Trader Joe's Product API, making it easy to scrape products from Trader Joe's. Search any query across all stores or in a specific store, filter results by category, characteristics such as organic or vegan, tags, and new products, and sort them by price or popularity. For each product, the Search API returns its title, link, thumbnail, category, price, and size, with a serpapi link to the Product API, which returns the product's full details: price and availability in a store, description, images, ingredients, allergens, and nutrition facts. It's ideal for developers building grocery price tracking and comparison tools, meal planning and dietary apps, retail analytics, and AI shopping agents that need grocery product data. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4245 📑 Full List of Updates Google Search API https://serpapi.com/search-api Features - We are now extracting apps results , the "Apps" block Google shows for some app-related searches on mobile and tablet, documented on the new Apps Results https://serpapi.com/apps-results page. This also applies to the Google Ads API. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4491 Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the API was, in some cases, including the date in displayed link inside organic results , such as "17M+ views · 2 months ago" . The date is now returned separately in date . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4433 - We have fixed the issue where the API was, in some cases, returning AI Overview answers inside related questions as type: "featured snippet" without the answer. They now return type: "ai overview" with a serpapi ai overview link to get the answer from the Google AI Overview API. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4497 - We have fixed the issue where the API was returning Google /goto redirect links instead of the destination URL in link inside organic results . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4315 - We have fixed the issue where the API was returning Google /goto redirect links instead of the destination URL in link inside news results . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4201 - We have fixed the issue where the API was, in some cases, returning /goto links as relative paths without the Google domain, in link and about this result.source.source info link inside organic results . Google AI Overview API https://serpapi.com/google-ai-overview-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the API was returning an error for some searches whose AI Overview lists products. This also applies to ai overview in the Google Search API. Google Shopping API https://serpapi.com/google-shopping-api Bug fixes - We have reduced the number of searches returning irrelevant results. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4475 - We have fixed the issue where some searches were returning results limited to a price range that wasn't requested. This also applies to the Google Shopping Light API https://serpapi.com/google-shopping-light-api . Google Maps API https://serpapi.com/google-maps-api Features - We are now including Google Maps' holiday notes in the opening hours of a day, in hours inside place results and in operating hours inside local results , for example "11 AM–2:30 PM, 4–8 PM Veterans Day might affect these hours " or "Closed Labor Day hours " . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4473 Google Reverse Image API https://serpapi.com/google-reverse-image Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the searched image was broken in the Playground. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4528 YouTube Channel API https://serpapi.com/youtube-channel-api Features - We are now extracting banner , verified , and official artist inside channel results . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4503 YouTube Video API https://serpapi.com/youtube-video-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the text of links inside description.links was cut at the wrong place when the description contained emoji. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4524 Baidu Search API https://serpapi.com/baidu-search-api and Baidu News API https://serpapi.com/baidu-news-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the APIs were, in some cases, altering queries in Traditional Chinese, Korean, or with accented characters. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4463 - We have fixed the issue where the Baidu News API was missing the next and previous links inside serpapi pagination . Amazon Product API https://serpapi.com/amazon-product-api Improvements - We have improved the response time of the API. Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the API was, in some cases, missing reviews information . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4530 - We have fixed the issue where the API was, in some cases, returning an incorrect rating inside product results . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4512 - We have fixed the issue where the API was returning the wrong asin for variants on mobile. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3925 - When Amazon shows a different variant than the requested asin , for example because it's no longer sold, link , link clean , and serpapi link inside product results now point to the product Amazon showed, matching asin . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3925 - We have fixed the issue where the API was, in some cases, returning Amazon's "Continue shopping" page as a successful search. Amazon Search API https://serpapi.com/amazon-search-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where some searches, such as searches with the node parameter, were intermittently returning Amazon's "Continue shopping" page instead of results. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4501 Amazon Autocomplete API https://serpapi.com/amazon-autocomplete-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the API was returning an error for some queries with non-ASCII characters, such as Japanese queries on amazon.co.jp . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4466 Amazon Promotion API https://serpapi.com/amazon-promotion-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the Playground's example promotion had ended. The Playground now opens on the saved documentation examples. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4504 Walmart Search API https://serpapi.com/walmart-search-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where store id was ignored for searches on walmart.com.mx . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4465 - We have fixed the issue where the API was intermittently returning incomplete results when Walmart sent a truncated page. Walmart Product API https://serpapi.com/walmart-product-api and Walmart Reviews API https://serpapi.com/walmart-product-reviews-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where the HTML output of the Walmart Product API was intermittently returning a 500 error while the JSON response was correct. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4522 - We have fixed the issue where the Walmart Reviews API was returning an error for products whose product page no longer exists. The Home Depot Search API https://serpapi.com/home-depot-search-api Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where searches that Home Depot redirects to a product page, such as a search for a Store SKU, were returning no results. They now return that product. - We have fixed the issue where links pointed to apionline.homedepot.com , which shows an Access Denied page, instead of www.homedepot.com . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4513 The Home Depot Product API https://serpapi.com/home-depot-product Features - We have added the store sku parameter, so you can get a product by its Store SKU instead of product id . Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/90 Apple App Store API https://serpapi.com/apple-app-store Bug fixes - We have fixed the issue where X-Ray wasn't working for apps listed after an app with no reviews. Details https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4500 Extract API https://serpapi.com/extract-api Changes - Markdown is now the main output of the API, and the JSON only keeps what the page itself declares. markdown is now included in the JSON by default, replacing text content . Set include markdown=false to leave it out. - We have removed headings , lists , tables , forms , sections , breadcrumbs , price offers , text content , search information , scripts , stylesheets , and inline iframes from the JSON. We have also removed position from every section, url and charset inside page information , the viewport , theme color , color scheme , and referrer meta tags, displayed link inside inline links , width and height on images and videos, and type and embed url on videos. The include inline assets parameter no longer has any effect. - The Markdown output output=md now returns only the page's main content, without the search metadata and search parameters front matter. 💬 We'd Love Your Feedback Your 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 mailto:contact@serpapi.com . Or you can open an issue on our Public Roadmap https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap . Thanks for building with SerpApi