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Access real-time results from Google and 100+ search engines with a simple API. No proxies, CAPTCHAs, or parsing required.

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Which is more popular?
Based on our record, SerpApi seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 98 times since March 2021.
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| Company | Startup from the United States · 50 - 99 employees | Startup from Serbia · 1 - 9 employees · 2024 |
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In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.


We help you automate gathering data from search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo. What's cool about SerpApi is that it handles all the scraping complexities for you, like dealing with CAPTCHAs, managing IP addresses, and parsing data into a structured JSON. So you don't have to worry about the...
Dummy Database is built to solve a simple, yet annoying problem — generating realistic test datasets quickly, without writing scripts or juggling Excel files. It’s designed for: - Developers needing dummy databases for prototyping & testing. - Analysts and BI specialists preparing demo...
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As answered by people managing SerpApi and DUMMY DATABASE.
SerpApi's answer
We provide more search engines under one subscription.
DUMMY DATABASE's answer:
Unlike other data generators, DUMMY DATABASE gives you full relational database creation, unique event simulations, advanced control over every field, built-in SQL querying, and generous free limits — so you can go from idea to test-ready data without restrictions, subscriptions, or hidden fees
SerpApi's answer
Developers/Companies who need data from search engines.
DUMMY DATABASE's answer:
SerpApi's answer
Ruby on Rails and MongoDB
DUMMY DATABASE's answer:
Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Redis, PostgreSQL, JavaScript
SerpApi's answer
We're the first web scraping company that focus on scraping search engines.
DUMMY DATABASE's answer:
A free, all-in-one data generation platform that builds everything from simple tables to full relational databases with advanced controls, unique event sequences, ERD visualization, built-in SQL querying, and multiple export formats — no limits, no paywalls.
SerpApi's answer
Back in 2017, Julien Khaleghy, the founder of SerpApi, built an iOS app that can analyze data from a picture. iOS didn't have a proper machine learning framework back then. It was challenging: iPhones' RAM were limited, no GPU or no dedicated chip acceleration were available, using only CPU was painfully slow, and compiling/porting C code from machine learning framework like Tensorflow or Caffe to iOS wasn't straightforward. Oddly, all of this wasn't the most difficult part of this project. Collecting images from Google Images was.
In these projects, 80% of his time ended up being spent on scraping and parsing Google Images. And maybe only 20% on actual machine learning model training, UI design of the actual apps, and iOS programming. This is how SerpApi was born.
DUMMY DATABASE's answer:
Began as a project for myself to be able to have custom datasets for testing purpose I've decided that it could be useful for wider audience and finalized it as a full-stack web project
SerpApi's answer
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


SerpApi for the nearby search integration. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago
Get_local_air_news searches Google News through SerpApi for the city's air quality headlines from the last seven days. The EPA guidance explains what an AQI level means, but the guidance cannot know that a city closed its schools this... - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago
Review fetching uses SerpApi's Google Maps Reviews API — the free tier gives 100 searches/month, which is plenty for one restaurant. No SerpApi key? There's a paste mode: paste review text in, get the briefing out, no network needed at all. - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago
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