Deprecation notice #103
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EDIT on 20th Dec 2025:
At this point it’s pretty clear that Google is not going to allow non-JavaScript requests to their services. On top of that, Google has started legal proceedings against SerpAPI, which makes it even more obvious that this is not something that Google wants us to do.
Because of this, I’ve decided to permanently deprecate and archive this package. I don’t see a path forward where it would continue to work.
Thanks to everyone who used google-sr, and feel free to check out my other projects if you’re interested.
Google appears to have fully deprecated support for non-JavaScript browsers, which previously allowed us to fetch the query result page without executing heavy Javascript. This means our existing approach no longer works unless we introduce a headless browser to execute the JavaScript on Google’s search pages.
This is related to #53, where we had bypassed the JavaScript requirement by spoofing an older browser user agent. That workaround is no longer effective.
As a result, google-sr should be considered in a deprecated state for the foreseeable future.
If you have any solution please feel free to comment them.
