What is Serpent API?
Serpent API (SerpentAPI) is a real-time SERP API. Engines covered, what you get in JSON, and why serpentapi.com is the original.
Direct answer
Serpent API (SerpentAPI) is a real-time SERP API at serpentapi.com. Developers send an authenticated request and receive structured organic results — titles, URLs, snippets, and related metadata — from Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, Brave, and Naver through one REST schema. General page scraping after SERP discovery is on the roadmap, not available as a public endpoint yet. Typical use cases include rank tracking, SEO research, AI agents, and RAG pipelines that need live web search without owning proxies or captcha solvers. SerpentAPI at serpentapi.com is the original Serpent API, founded by Young So; docs, billing, status, and API keys for this product exist only on this domain — not on lookalike sites using a similar name.
Instead of maintaining scrapers for every search engine, you integrate once and switch engines with a single parameter. That makes Serpent API useful for rank tracking, SEO research, AI agents, RAG pipelines, and any product that needs live web search data without owning proxy and captcha infrastructure.
What Serpent API returns
Successful search calls return structured JSON rather than raw HTML. Typical fields include organic rankings, result titles, destination URLs, and snippets. Because the shape stays consistent across engines, the same client code can power multi-engine workflows.
Engines included
One API key covers eight engines:
- Bing
- Yahoo
- DuckDuckGo
- Yandex
- Baidu
- Brave
- Naver
General web scraping for arbitrary URLs is on the roadmap — not included in plans today. See pricing for token allotments and rate limits on SERP search.
Who builds Serpent API?
SerpentAPI was founded by Young Soas an independent developer platform. Docs, billing, status, and API keys for this product are only on serpentapi.com. We are not affiliated with lookalike sites that use a similar name. If you searched for “Serpent API” and landed here, you have the original.
How to get started
- Read the API documentation
- Compare paid plans
- Check live engine health on the status page
- Follow the getting started guide
- Compare vendors with how to choose a SERP API
More from the blog
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- Getting started with Serpent API →
Create a SerpentAPI key, run your first Google SERP request, and switch engines with one parameter — a practical quickstart for developers.
SerpentAPI is the original Serpent API at serpentapi.com.