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How to easily scrape Google Lens About This Image tab

Michael Moura — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:15:01 +0000

Introduction

Google Lens is an extremely powerful tool, by allowing users to search using images or image links, it helps users easily find more information about products, places, and more!
Beyond searching, Google Lens allows for showing only Exact Matches, Products, Visual matches, and also results with information about the image queried with their About this image tab.
SerpApi helps you scraping Google Lens and all its different tabs. Let's see how we can scrape the About this image section:

Scraping About This Image tab on Google Lens

Scraping Google Lens results using SerpApi's Google Lens API is completely frictionless. We can choose which Google Lens tab we want to scrape by only changing the request parameter type to any of the available options: all (default), exact_matches, products, visual_matches, and finally about_this_image, which is the type needed to scrape the About This Image tab.

Example of results scraped from Google Lens About This Image tab using SerpApi's Playground technology, emphasizing the selection of about_this_image value for the type parameter in SerpApi's Google Lens API.

What is available on Google Lens About This Image results

All the results related to About This Image tab is returned under the about_this_image hash.
It's split into the header hash, that comes with title and image (link), and the sections array, which shows the position of the section, its title and page_results, which is where the pages about the image queried are located.
There's a lot of information scraped in these page_results, such as page position, title, link, source, displayed_link, date, snippet, thumbnail, and favicon.

Let's create a SerpApi account so we can start scraping Google Lens and all other Search Engines SerpApi offers:

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

First, we need to create a SerpApi account. SerpApi has a Free tier that offers up to 250 searches per month.
Let's head to the sign-up page to create an account. Provide a valid email and a valid phone number in order to access your account's dashboard.

SerpApi Signup/Signin page where you can create an account by providing an unique email address and an unique phone number.

Exploring Google Lens API About This Image

Now that we have an account, we can sign in and use SerpApi's Playground technology to explore all the information we can get from Google Lens API, including the About This Image tab.
For this example, we're scraping Google Lens API About This Image (engine: google_lens, type: about_this_image) for the Danny DeVito image (url: https://i.imgur.com/HBrB8p0.png). We can also change the type parameter to see what else we can get when we set it to all, exact_matches, products, and visual_matches.

Integrating SerpApi with your application

In order to send requests to SerpApi, we will need your unique secret API key that can be copied right from your dashboard:

Use your unique secret API key in your application to send requests to SerpApi programmatically.

Your API key is unique to you and you should never share it anywhere to avoid other people using your account, but in case you accidentally expose your API key, you can easily generate a new one from the Manage API key page (if you generate a new API key, don't forget to update your application code with the newly generated API key).

Check out the documentation for SerpApi libraries based on the programming language you use:

To demonstrate how simple it is to use SerpApi in your code, here's all you'd need to do to retrieve Google Lens API About This Image results from your application using the Ruby language, as you can also see in SerpApi's Google Lens API About This Image documentation page:

require "serpapi" 

client = SerpApi::Client.new(
  engine: "google_lens",
  url: "https://i.imgur.com/HBrB8p0.png",
  type: "about_this_image",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
)

results = client.search
about_this_image_results = results[:about_this_image]

That's all there is to it. Integrating SerpApi is extremely simple and straightforward. You can explore how to use all other Search Engine APIs offered by SerpApi at our documentation page, and play around with each of them using SerpApi's Playground feature.

Have fun! 😃

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How to scrape More Seller Options for Walmart Products

Michael Moura — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:21:17 +0000

Introduction

Walmart offers a massive number of different products that range from food, camping gear to all sorts of electronics, like TVs, laptops and even Air Fryers. With a catalog of items this huge and diverse, there's a lot of value from being able to scrape Walmart products, such as researching and comparing product prices, sizes, quality, and also checking how the different sellers are pricing the same product.

How to know which Walmart products are sold by multiple sellers

When browsing products on Walmart, we can easily see when a product has multiple sellers by checking if the product has the "More Seller Options" box on its product page:

We can see when a Walmart product is sold by multiple sellers when the "More Seller Options" box is on its product page.

When scraping Walmart Products using SerpApi, we can know when a product has more sellers when we can find the field response[:product_result][:seller_options] in the response:

When we're scraping Walmart product pages using SerpApi's Walmart Product API we can know when a product has "More Seller Options" when it has response.product_result.seller_options in the response. From there, we can also know how many additional sellers a product has (number_of_additional_sellers) and get the direct link to scrape information about the product's additional sellers using SerpApi's Walmart Product Sellers API (serpapi_product_sellers_link).

How to scrape Walmart Product Sellers

There are two options to scrape Walmart Product Sellers:

The first one is by using SerpApi's Walmart Product API, and when a product we're scraping has "More Seller Options" we can get the direct link to scrape the product's additional sellers using SerpApi's Walmart Product Sellers API in response[:product_result][:seller_options][:serpapi_product_sellers_link] which returns the Walmart Product Seller results using SerpApi's Walmart Product Sellers API.
The second one is by using SerpApi's Walmart Product Sellers API directly, providing the product_id for the product that we want to know about to scrape its "More Seller Options" page.

What is available on Walmart Product Sellers API

Besides information about product sellers, we also get some data about the product itself, for example, the product's name, thumbnail and url. As for the sellers, we get information about their offering related to the product, such as us_item_id, offer_id, offer_type, availability_status, seller_id, seller_name, seller_display_name, seller_type, price, extracted_price and return_policy_text.

Let's create a SerpApi account so we can tap into all the potential Walmart Product Sellers API has to offer.

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

SerpApi Signup/Signin page where you can create an account by providing an unique email address and an unique phone number.

Exploring Walmart Product Sellers API

Now that we have an account, we can sign in and use SerpApi's Playground technology to explore all the information we can get from Walmart Product Sellers API.
For this example, we're scraping Walmart Product Sellers (engine: walmart_product_sellers) for the product Tajin Clasic Seasoning 14oz (product_id: 138762768). This is a good example product because it has many offerings by several sellers, with different prices and return policies.
Let's see how that looks like:

With SerpApi, we can easily scrape all the information on Walmart Product Sellers, such as product's name, thumbnail and url. Also we can scrape shipping_destination, sellers, us_item_id, offer_id, offer_type, availability_status, seller_id, seller_name, seller_display_name, seller_type, price, extracted_price and return_policy_text.

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Exploring SerpApi's vast diversity of Search APIs using Playground is a lot of fun, but to get the most out of SerpApi's services it's best to use the results from Search Engines directly in your application programmatically.
In order to send requests to SerpApi, we will need your unique secret API key that can be copied right from your dashboard:

Use your unique secret API key in your application to send requests to SerpApi programmatically.

Check out the documentation for SerpApi libraries based on the programming language you use:

To demonstrate how simple it is to use SerpApi in your code, here's all you'd need to do to retrieve Walmart Product Sellers API results from your application using the Ruby language, as you can also see in SerpApi's Walmart Product Sellers API documentation page:

require "serpapi" 

client = SerpApi::Client.new(
  engine: "walmart_product_sellers",
  product_id: "138762768",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
)

results = client.search
full_menu_results = results[:sellers_results]

Have fun! 😃

Want to scrape Walmart Product API? Here's a guide for you!

We also have a great tutorial going over how to easily scrape Walmart Product Results. Check it out: How to Scrape Walmart Product Results

Tutorial of how to scrape Yelp Full Menu, fast and simple

Michael Moura — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:38:26 +0000

Introduction

Yelp is a great platform for people who want to know about local businesses and restaurants. With over 7 million businesses listed, Yelp has a wealth of precious information for market researchers and specialized AI agents and chat bots.
Beyond information about businesses and restaurants, some restaurants list their full menus to Yelp, making this platform even more significant for data collectors and analysts.

How to know which restaurants have Full Menus

In Yelp, for the restaurants that have set up their Full Menu page, there is a big button called "Full Menu" on their Yelp Place page:

When a restaurant on Yelp has a Full Menu page, there will be a button called "Full Menu" on their Yelp page.

When scraping Yelp Places using SerpApi, we can know when a place has a Full Menu page when we can find the field response[:place_results][:full_menu] in the response:

We can know if a restaurant we're scraping using SerpApi's Yelp Place Scraper API has a Full Menu page when it has response.place_results.full_menu in the response.

How to scrape Yelp Place Full Menus

Now that we know if a restaurant has a Full Menu page, we can easily scrape it using SerpApi's Yelp Place Scraper API by setting the request parameter full_menu to true to get full_menu_results.

What is available on Yelp Full Menus

There are lots of useful information available in full_menu_results, such as menu name, title, popular_items with link, review, expand_review_link, thumbnail and more. Also, menu sections with title, items with description, prices, thumbnail, number of photos, number of reviews, reviews_link and much more!
Some restaurants even have more than one menu available. If a restaurant has multiple menus, we can find all available menus in response[:full_menu_results][:menus]:

Some restaurants have multiple menus to choose from. If no menu is selected using the request parameter menu_name then the menu the restaurant set as default will be the one scraped.

When a restaurant has multiple menus, we can scrape each menu by providing its name to the request parameter menu_name. For example, here's how the request would look like if we wanted to scrape the lunch menu (menu_name: chalong-9th-ave-lunch-08-28-24) for the restaurant Chalong (place_id: chalong-new-york):

require "serpapi" 

client = SerpApi::Client.new(
  engine: "yelp_place",
  place_id: "chalong-new-york",
  full_menu: "true",
  menu_name: "chalong-9th-ave-lunch-08-28-24",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
)

results = client.search
full_menu_results = results[:full_menu_results]

However, if a restaurant has many menus, but no menu_name is provided in the request, then the menu that will be scraped will be the one the restaurant set as their default menu.
Let's walk through how we can use SerpApi to scrape Yelp Place Full Menus with only a few simple steps:

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

SerpApi Signup/Signin page where you can create an account by providing an unique email address and an unique phone number.

Exploring Yelp Full Menu

Now that we have an account, we can sign in and use SerpApi's Playground technology to explore all the information we can get from Yelp Place Full Menu.
In this example, I'm scraping one menu from the restaurant Chalong using place_id: chalong-new-york. This restaurant has two menus, the dinner menu and the chalong-9th-ave-lunch-08-28-24 menu. Because I didn't specify any menu in menu_name, the results will be from their default menu, which is the dinner menu. Let's see all the information we can scraped in full_menu_results:

SerpApi can scrape all information from Yelp Place menus, including menu names, titles, popular items, reviews, photos, thumbnails, items divided per sections, item prices, descriptions, links, and a lot more!

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Exploring SerpApi's vast diversity of Search APIs using Playground is a lot of fun, but to get the most out of SerpApi's services it's best to use the results from Search Engines directly in your application programmatically.
In order to send requests to SerpApi, we will need your unique secret API key that can be copied right from your dashboard:

Use your unique secret API key in your application to send requests to SerpApi programmatically.

Your API key is unique to you and you should never share it anywhere to avoid other people using your account, but in case you accidentally expose your API key, you can easily generate a new one from the Manage API key page (if you generate a new API key, don't forget to update your application code with the newly generated API key).

Check out the documentation for SerpApi libraries based on the programming language you use:

To demonstrate how simple it is to use SerpApi in your code, here's all you'd need to do to retrieve Yelp Place Full Menu results from your application using the Ruby language, as you can also see in SerpApi's Yelp Place Full Menu documentation page:

require "serpapi" 

client = SerpApi::Client.new(
  engine: "yelp_place",
  place_id: "juniors-restaurant-new-york-9",
  full_menu: "true",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
)

results = client.search
full_menu_results = results[:full_menu_results]

That's all there is to it. Integrating SerpApi is extremely simple and straightforward. You can explore how to use all other Search Engine APIs offered by SerpApi in our documentation page, and play around with each of them using SerpApi's Playground feature.

Like what you see? Head to SerpApi's Blog for a lot more: https://serpapi.com/blog/

Scraping Google Hotels and Google Hotels Autocomplete guide - How to get precious data from Google Hotels

Michael Moura — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:44:45 +0000

Introduction

Google Hotels is the best place on the internet to find information about hotels and vacation properties, and the best way to get this information is by using SerpApi. With SerpApi you can easily retrieve lots of data about these properties, like address, phone, gps_coordinates, check_in_time, check_out_time, rate_per_night, total_rate, featured_prices, hotel_class, images, overall_rating, reviews, ratings, reviews_breakdown, ads and more!

Another great benefit when querying for hotels using SerpApi is the ability to use filters to get more specific results, for instance, gl (country), hl (language), check_in_date, check_out_date, hotel_class, free_cancellation, special_offers, eco_certified, vacation_rentals, bedrooms, bathrooms, plus additional filters.

What are the ways to get information from Google Hotels?

There are 3 main ways to retrieve results from Google Hotels:

1. Regular querying using Google Hotels API to get general Google Hotels results.

2. Using Google Hotels API along with property_token to get full detailed information about a specific property.

3. Using Google Hotels Autocomplete API to see all autocomplete suggestions where you can get the property_token and serpapi_google_hotels_link for each suggestion.

1. Getting general results with Google Hotels API

This is the simplest way to use Google Hotels API. Check out our Playground feature to try it out for yourself.

To use Google Hotels API for general results, we must set engine to "google_hotels", and provide a query using the parameter q. For example: "Bali Resorts".

This will return results that are related to the query, such as ads information displayed on Google Hotels, properties and general details about each property, like property type, name, link, property_token, serpapi_property_details_link, gps_coordinates, check_in_time, check_out_time, rate_per_night, total_rate, prices, nearby_places, images, overall_rating, reviews, location_rating, amenities, and essential_info.

Example of results returned for general queries using SerpApi's Google Hotels API Playground feature using q ="Bali Resorts".

2. Getting full detailed information about a specific property using Google Hotels API with `property_token`

We can also return the full detailed information about a specific property by using the parameter property_token with the Google Hotels API query, alongside the engine parameter set to "google_hotels".

In addition to all details returned with general results, the property details returned in the response also includes typical_price_range, lowest and highest prices, link, and rooms as well.

Head to our Playground to see the full response.

Example of results returned by SerpApi's Google Hotels Properties API Playground feature using property_token ="ChgIgJT4_7Pr5avuARoLL2cvMXRmZDl3OWcQAQ".

3. Finding Hotels using the Google Hotels Autocomplete API

Not finding the hotels you're looking for using the general results? Not to worry, because SerpApi also offers an API to get all autocomplete suggestions for queries, and provides the property_token and serpapi_google_hotels_link for all properties returned in the autocomplete, as well as other information, such as value, type, location, thumbnail, highlighted_words, autocomplete_suggestion, kgmid, data_cid and serpapi_link.

To use it, we just need to set engine to "google_hotels_autocomplete" and provide a query using the parameter q, such as "New York".

Example of results returned by SerpApi's Google Hotels Autocomplete API Playground feature using q="New York".

How to start leveraging the data from Google Hotels using SerpApi?

We just need to create a SerpApi account in order to use nearly 100 APIs offered by SerpApi, including Google Hotels API, Google Hotels Autocomplete API and several more. Also, by creating a FREE account, SerpApi equips you with 250 free searches per month.

Let's create a free SerpApi account to take advantage of all services offered by SerpApi.

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

Let's head to the sign-up page to create an account. Provide a valid email and a valid phone number in order to access your account's dashboard.

SerpApi Signup/Signin page where you can create an account by providing an unique email address and an unique phone number.

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Exploring SerpApi's vast diversity of Search APIs using Playground is a lot of fun, but to get the most out of SerpApi's services it's best to use the results from Search Engines directly in your application programmatically.

In order to send requests to SerpApi, we will need your unique secret API key that can be copied right from your dashboard:

Use your unique secret API key in your application to send requests to SerpApi programmatically.

Check out the documentation for SerpApi libraries based on the programming language you use:

To demonstrate how simple it is to use SerpApi in your code, here's all you'd need to do to retrieve Google Hotels results from your application using the Ruby language, as you can also see in SerpApi's Google Hotels API's documentation page.

(Make sure to adjust the parameters check_in_date and check_out_date to dates that are in the future from today)

    require 'google_search_results' 
    params = {
      engine: "google_hotels",
      q: "Bali Resorts",
      check_in_date: "2025-10-31",
      check_out_date: "2025-11-10",
      api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
    }
    search = GoogleSearch.new(params)
    results = search.get_hash

To use Google Hotels Autocomplete API is even simpler. Check the documentation for a list of all parameters available. Here's everything you'd need to retrieve Google Hotels Autocompletes results from your application using the Ruby language.

    require 'google_search_results' 
    params = {
      engine: "google_hotels_autocomplete",
      q: "New York",
      currency: "USD",
      api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
    }
    search = GoogleSearch.new(params)
    results = search.get_hash

Have fun! 😃

Like what you see? Head to SerpApi's Blog for a lot more: https://serpapi.com/blog/

DEV Community: Michael Moura

How to easily scrape Google Lens About This Image tab

Introduction

Scraping About This Image tab on Google Lens

What is available on Google Lens About This Image results

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

Exploring Google Lens API About This Image

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Enjoyed learning about Google Lens About This Image and want to build fun projects using SerpApi's Google Lens API?

How to scrape More Seller Options for Walmart Products

Introduction

How to know which Walmart products are sold by multiple sellers

How to scrape Walmart Product Sellers

What is available on Walmart Product Sellers API

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

Exploring Walmart Product Sellers API

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Want to scrape Walmart Product API? Here's a guide for you!

Tutorial of how to scrape Yelp Full Menu, fast and simple

Introduction

How to know which restaurants have Full Menus

How to scrape Yelp Place Full Menus

What is available on Yelp Full Menus

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

Exploring Yelp Full Menu

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Scraping Google Hotels and Google Hotels Autocomplete guide - How to get precious data from Google Hotels

Introduction

What are the ways to get information from Google Hotels?

1. Getting general results with Google Hotels API

2. Getting full detailed information about a specific property using Google Hotels API with property_token

3. Finding Hotels using the Google Hotels Autocomplete API

How to start leveraging the data from Google Hotels using SerpApi?

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

Integrating SerpApi with your application

2. Getting full detailed information about a specific property using Google Hotels API with `property_token`