SerpApi MCP: structured search results for your AI app

Add SerpApi to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect SerpApi free and paste an API key from your SerpApi account.
2. 2There's one tool per search engine or vertical, all on. Switch off the engines your team doesn't use, say Baidu or Yandex, so your AI app picks from a shorter list.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for recent Google News coverage of a competitor through SerpApi, then open Activity to see the query.

Searches your AI app can run

• Search Google News, Google Scholar or Google Images and get structured results back.
• Look up places with Google Maps, find hotels, or search events such as concerts and conferences.
• Pull jobs from Google Jobs, apps from Google Play and videos from YouTube.
• Compare product listings on eBay and Walmart, or results from Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo and Yandex.
• Get company and stock details from Google Finance.

A record of every search

• Switch off search engines you don't need; each one is hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Policies check each query, so a customer's name can be hidden, or a secret blocked, before it goes to a search engine.
• Activity keeps the query behind every SerpApi call your team's AI apps make.

What you get with SerpApi and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use SerpApiClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach SerpApi through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any SerpApi tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

SerpApi tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in SerpApi. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Baidu SearchBaidu search
• Bing SearchRetrieve bing search engine results. supports parameters for query, location, language, and device.
• eBay SearchRetrieve ebay search results. supports parameters like nkw (query), location, etc. returns product serp data in json format.
• Google Domains ListRetrieve the list of supported google domains for search queries.
• Google Jobs SearchRetrieve google jobs search results. supports parameters like q (query), location, etc. returns job serp data in json format.
• Google Light SearchRetrieve google light search results. supports parameters like q (query), location, etc. returns lightweight serp data in json format.
• Hotel SearchRetrieve google hotel search results. supports parameters like q (query), location, etc. returns hotel serp data in json format.
• List LocationsList locations
• Google Play SearchRetrieve google play store search results. supports parameters like q (query), gl, hl, etc. returns app serp data in json format.
• Walmart SearchRetrieve walmart search results. supports parameters like query, location, store id, etc. returns product serp data in json format.
• Yahoo SearchRetrieve yahoo! search engine results. supports query, location, language, and device parameters.
• Yandex SearchRetrieve yandex search results. supports parameters like text (query), location, etc. returns serp data in json format.
• YouTube SearchRetrieve youtube search results. supports parameters like search query, location, etc. returns video serp data in json format.
• DuckDuckGo searchPerforms a duckduckgo search via serpapi to retrieve serp data, including organic results, ads, and structured information.
• Search Google EventsSearches for events (e.g., concerts, festivals, conferences) by query, retrieving structured data from google's event search results via the serpapi google events engine.
• Search financeRetrieves structured financial information (e.g., company data, stock details, market trends, news) from google finance via serp api based on a query.
• Google maps searchPerforms a google maps search via serp api for a given query, optionally using specific gps coordinates and pagination, returning structured location data.
• Image searchSearches google images via serp api for a given query, returning structured image results.
• Search for news articlesSearches google news (via serpapi, using the `tbm=nws` parameter) for articles matching a query; precise queries yield best results.
• Search Google ScholarSearches google scholar via serpapi for academic literature, papers, articles, and citations based on a query.