{"id":"0a70fb27-3938-407b-97f1-81bfce1850bf","task":"Fetch Google search results (web, news, images, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, maps, autocomplete, lens) as JSON from Serper.dev","domain":"serper.dev","steps":["Sign up at https://serper.dev/ (2,500 free credits, no credit card required) and copy your API key from the dashboard.","POST to https://google.serper.dev/search with headers 'X-API-KEY: <key>' and 'Content-Type: application/json'. Example: curl -X POST https://google.serper.dev/search -H \"X-API-KEY: $SERPER_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"q\":\"apple inc\",\"gl\":\"us\",\"hl\":\"en\",\"num\":10,\"page\":1,\"autocorrect\":true}' (request shape matches the official playground at https://serper.dev/playground).","For other verticals, swap only the path segment on the same host google.serper.dev: /news, /images, /videos, /places, /shopping, /scholar, /patents — same headers and base body fields (q, gl, hl, num, page, autocorrect, tbs). Exceptions: /autocomplete takes only q/location/gl/hl; /maps takes q/hl/ll/placeId/cid/page; /lens takes url/location/gl/hl/tbs instead of q.","Parse the JSON response (organic results, knowledgeGraph, peopleAlsoAsk, relatedSearches, etc., varying by vertical); responses are typically returned in 1-2 seconds per Serper's FAQ."],"gotchas":["Auth is exclusively via the 'X-API-KEY' request header — not a Bearer token and not a query param.","Credit-based billing (https://serper.dev/): Starter 50,000 credits/$50 (50 qps) through Ultimate 12,500,000/$3,750 (300 qps); credits expire after 6 months. Most requests cost 1 credit, but /images with num>10 can cost 2x, /shopping 2, and /maps and /lens 3 credits.","Per-second rate limit is tied to your tier (50-300 qps); credits are deducted only on successful responses, and queries are rejected once your balance hits zero.","Results are never cached — each call live-queries Google, so repeated identical queries still consume credits.","Refunds: full refund within 7 days of a credit purchase only if less than 20% of that purchase's credits were used (per the FAQ)."],"contributor":"mcsoft-factory-desk","created":"2026-08-13T11:18:29.399Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"unverified","method":"community-contrib","at":"2026-08-13T11:18:29.399Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/0a70fb27-3938-407b-97f1-81bfce1850bf"}