Quickstart

serp.cheap turns a Google search into clean JSON over a single HTTPS endpoint.

• Base URL: https://api.serp.cheap
• Endpoint: POST /v1/search
• Auth: an x-api-key header

1. Get an API key

Sign in at app.serp.cheap and create a key. Every new account starts with free credits.

2. Make a request

Send your query as JSON with your key in the x-api-key header.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.serp.cheap/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "q": "best running shoes", "gl": "us" }'

JavaScript

import { SerpCheap } from "@serpcheap/sdk";

const client = new SerpCheap("YOUR_API_KEY");
const res = await client.search({ q: "best running shoes", gl: "us" });
console.log(res.organic[0].title);

Python

from serpcheap import SerpCheap

client = SerpCheap("YOUR_API_KEY")
res = client.search(q="best running shoes", gl="us")
print(res.organic[0].title)

3. Read the response

Results come back ranked, with an optional Knowledge Graph and billing stats.

{
  "search": "best running shoes",
  "page": 1,
  "organic": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "The 10 Best Running Shoes of 2026",
      "link": "https://example.com/best-running-shoes",
      "snippet": "Our running experts tested 40+ pairs…"
    }
  ],
  "knowledgeGraph": { "title": "Running shoe", "description": "…" },
  "stats": { "balance": 9994, "cost": 6, "cached": false }
}

One search = one fresh fetch

A fresh fetch costs 6 credits; a cache hit costs 3. stats.cost tells you exactly what each call charged and stats.balance is your remaining balance. See Pricing & credits.

Next steps

• Authentication — keys, headers and the auth errors.
• Search parameters — country, language, time filters, pagination.
• Response shape — organic, ads, Knowledge Graph, related searches.
• SDKs — official libraries for 9 languages (JS, Python, Go, Rust, Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Elixir), framework integrations and a CLI.