Google Search Results Scraper: Organic & SERP Boxes: MCP config, n8n workflow and API

{
  "queries": [
    "Hotels in NYC"
  ],
  "searchType": "web",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "countryCode": "us",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
  "includeAiOverview": false,
  "includeDestinationUrl": false,
  "csvFriendlyOutput": false,
  "includeExtraBoxes": false,
  "exactPhrase": false
}

---
name: google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp
description: "One record per search query/page with web organic results, news cards, images, videos, AI Overview, People Also Ask, local pack, related queries and paid results. Runs the Apify Actor vexaloom-labs/google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp. Use when the user needs Google Search data with fields such as searchQuery, resultsTotal, hasNextPage, organicResults, aiOverview, knowledgePanel and an Apify token is available."
compatibility: "Needs network access, curl, and an APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Runs are billed to the token owner's Apify account."
metadata:
  actor: "vexaloom-labs/google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp"
  store-url: "https://apify.com/vexaloom-labs/google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp"
---

# Google Search Results Scraper: Organic & SERP Boxes

Use this skill to fetch Google Search data with the Apify Actor `vexaloom-labs/google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp` and work with the returned rows.

## Before running

1. Check that `APIFY_TOKEN` is set in the environment. Never print it or write it to a file.
2. Build `input.json` from the user's request using the fields below. Keep limits small for a first run.
3. Confirm the search terms or URLs with the user if the request is ambiguous.

## Input fields

| Field | Type | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `queries` | array, required | Google search queries. Each is searched separately; blank entries are dropped with a warning. |
| `searchType` | one of `web`, `news`, `images`, `videos` | Which Google surface to scrape: web organic results, news cards, images, or videos. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum items to return per query. Web results stop at Google's own ceiling of roughly 70-100; images return 50-100 per query and news/videos paginate in pages of 10. |
| `countryCode` | string | Country for the Google domain and searcher-location (gl) signal. Leave empty for US (google.com); if Precise Location is set and this is empty, the country is derived from it. |
| `restrictResultsCountry` | string | Only return pages whose content originates from this country (Google's cr parameter), independent of Country/gl. Leave empty for no restriction. |
| `languageCode` | string | Language of Google's own interface, e.g. en, de, fr, es. This does not restrict the language of the matched pages. |
| `restrictResultsLanguage` | string | Only return pages written in this language, e.g. en or en,fr for either. Leave empty for no restriction. |
| `maxPagesPerQuery` | integer | Result pages to crawl per query for web, news and videos. Images are a single page. Web results stop at Google's own ceiling of roughly 7-10 pages. |
| `timePeriod` | one of `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `year` | Filter results by relative time. Leave empty for any time. |
| `safeSearch` | one of `active`, `off` | Filter explicit content (safe=). Leave empty for Google's default. |
| `includeAiOverview` | boolean | Opt-in browser-rendered AI Overview for web searches. Slower and not guaranteed: Google may not show one, and the text is best-effort. Only applies to web search. |
| `includeDestinationUrl` | boolean | Add a destinationUrl field with the real destination behind Google's redirect link. Adds one lookup per organic result. Only applies to web search. |
| `csvFriendlyOutput` | boolean | For web search, output one organic/paid result per row instead of one SERP page per row. Other SERP features are not included in this layout. |
| `includeExtraBoxes` | boolean | For web search, also extract weather, time zone, currency/unit converter, stock, jobs, videos, shopping and dictionary boxes when present. |

Example `input.json` (the Actor's published prefill):

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "Hotels in NYC"
  ],
  "searchType": "web",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "countryCode": "us",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
  "includeAiOverview": false,
  "includeDestinationUrl": false,
  "csvFriendlyOutput": false,
  "includeExtraBoxes": false,
  "exactPhrase": false
}
```

## Run

```bash
curl -sS -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/vexaloom-labs~google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json > results.json
```

The call waits for the run to finish and returns the dataset items as a JSON array. If the run needs more than 300 seconds the API answers with HTTP 408; then start the run with `POST /v2/acts/vexaloom-labs~google-search-results-scraper-organic-and-serp/runs`, poll `GET /v2/actor-runs/{runId}` until `SUCCEEDED`, and read `GET /v2/datasets/{defaultDatasetId}/items`.

## Output

Each item is one record. Published fields include: `searchQuery`, `resultsTotal`, `hasNextPage`, `organicResults`, `aiOverview`, `knowledgePanel`, `peopleAlsoAsk`, `relatedQueries`, `localPack`, `topStories`, `sportsTable`, `paidResults`, `imageResults`, `newsResults`, `videoResults`.

Summarise what was found, cite the record URLs when present, and say how many items came back. Do not invent values for empty fields.