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[Google Local Services API] Some Searches Returning Fully Empty Response #1128

Closed schaferyan closed 1 month ago

schaferyan commented 12 months ago

A customer reported some Google Local Services API searches are returning with a fully_empty response. When retried, they return results. I was unable to replicate it in the Playground, but you can see in the screenshots that the parameters are the same but one returned empty.

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Intercom | Search Inspector | Playground

andypple83 commented 3 months ago

Please check some updates from this issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/1211#issuecomment-2167655151. Thanks

hartator commented 3 months ago

@andypple83's comment says:

The official Google services local results page is broken right now. Google also introduced a new page for local services results. We'll update the SerpApi Local Service engine to scrape the new Google page.

andypple83 commented 1 month ago

We've updated our Google Local Services document. Google Local Services only returns data for places inside the USA.

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For outside of the USA, we recommended using our Google Local API or Google Maps for now.

We will provide updates when we support the new Google Local Services page as I mentioned above.