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[Google Light API] Empty results returned

Major outage Lasted 13h 9m · started · SerpApi's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Components
Search API
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use SerpApi Search API. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 13h 9m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-05-13 21:48 UTC and 2026-05-14 10:57 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from SerpApi 3

  1. investigating

    Google Light API responses currently seem to include empty JSON results, despite the presence of valid results in the raw HTML. We're still investigating what might be the cause of this issue, and will be sure to update when we know more. https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3822

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  2. monitoring

    We've relased a fix for this issue and are currently monitoring to ensure stabillity.

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  3. resolved

    The performance has been stable for the past 10 hours. Marking the issue as resolved.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-57cc9f82ea

Is SerpApi still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-14 10:57 UTC. For SerpApi's live state, see https://down.guide/serpapi.

How long did it last?

13h 9m, from 2026-05-13 21:48 UTC to 2026-05-14 10:57 UTC, by the times SerpApi posted.

What was affected?

SerpApi named Search API.

What caused it?

SerpApi hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

SerpApi's official status page, https://status.serpapi.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.