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Request:
{
""prompt"": ""Explain SEO ranking factors in 2026"", // Required
""engine"": ""google-ai-mode"", // Required
""country"": ""us"", // Optional
}
Response:
{
""timestamp"": ""2026-01-28T12: 54: 34.613Z"",
""traceID"": ""aaa11111-2bbb-1234-a1b2-83f481f038bc"",
""request_duration"": 11.84,
""process_duration"": 11.84,
""scraper"": ""Google-AI-Mode"",
""response"": {
""prompt"": ""what are the leading SEO tips in 2026"",
""text"": ""In 2026, SEO has shifted from purely chasing rankings to building a \""revenue engine\"". Success now depends on providing human-first, expert content that survives AI summarization and adapts to a fragmented search landscape. Search Engine Land +2\n\n1. Master AI-Specific SEO\nTarget Zero-Click Results: Optimize for \""AI Overviews\"" and featured snippets by providing direct, concise answers (40–60 words) immediately below question-based headers.\nConversational Keywords: Shift from \""trophy\"" keywords to long-tail, natural-language queries that users ask AI tools like ChatGPT or Perplexity.\nMultimodal Optimization: Use Schema.org markup to help AI bots understand your videos, images, and audio as interconnected entities.\n\n2. Double Down on E-E-A-T\nShowcase Real Experience: Google now explicitly prioritizes \""Experience\"". Include original data, case studies, and firsthand product reviews to prove you aren't just rehashing AI-generated text.\nBuild Author Authority: Create detailed author bios with professional credentials and links to verifiable social profiles like LinkedIn.\nCite Sources: Use clear citations for all statistical claims to boost the \""Trustworthiness\"" pillar of E-E-A-T.\n\n3. Technical & Performance Foundations\nOptimize Core Web Vitals: Focus on \""Interaction to Next Paint\"" (INP) alongside LCP and CLS to ensure the site feels responsive, not just fast-loading.\nMobile-First Everything: Google predominantly uses the mobile version of your site for indexing; ensuring a seamless touch-friendly experience is non-negotiable.\nStrategic Internal Linking: Use tools like AIOSEO's Link Assistant to build topic clusters, which helps search engines understand your site's depth on a specific niche.\n\n4. Content Strategy for 2026\nTarget \""Zero-Volume\"" Keywords: Don't ignore terms that tools report as having 0 volume; these niche, high-intent queries often lead to the highest conversion rates.\nPrune and Refresh: Regularly audit and \""prune\"" ineffective or outdated content (pre-2023) to prevent it from dragging down your overall domain authority.\nSearch Everywhere Optimization: Recognize that your audience is searching on YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit. Distribute your content across these platforms to build a resilient brand presence.\n\n5. Essential Tools for 2026\nGoogle Search Console: Use it to monitor AI Overview visibility and find \""low-hanging fruit\"" keywords ranking on page two.\nSemrush or Ahrefs: Critical for tracking competitor content gaps and analyzing backlink profiles.\nPageSpeed Insights: The standard for auditing Core Web Vitals and identifying slow-loading elements."",
""citations_found"": true,
""citations"": [
{
""id"": 1,
""url"": ""https://searchengineland.com/seo-priorities-2026-453418#:~:text=What%20to%20do%20right%20now,gaps%20in%20your%20current%20strategy."",
""title"": ""SEO priorities for 2026: Your guide to search success"",
""description"": ""Table of Contents * The evolution of search engines in 2026. * Content strategy and optimization. * Adapting to zero-click searche..."",
""section"": ""citations""
},
{
""id"": 2,
""url"": ""https://www.getpassionfruit.com/blog/mastering-seo-in-2026-top-strategies-for-dominating-search-rankings#:~:text=Create%20High%2DValue%20Content%20That,compared%20to%20constant%20new%20production."",
""title"": ""Top SEO Strategies for 2026 to Drive Real Growth | Passionfruit"",
""description"": ""Mastering SEO in 2026: Top Strategies for Dominating Search Rankings. ... The rules of SEO have fundamentally shifted. What worked..."",
""section"": ""citations""
},
{
""id"": 3,
""url"": ""https://nogood.io/blog/seo-trends-2026/"",
""title"": ""2026 SEO Trends: 8 Things We're Seeing | NoGood"",
""description"": ""What You Should Do. Treat AEO as a dedicated channel within your organic strategy. Identify your top content that aligns with high..."",
""section"": ""citations""
},...
]
}
}
Google AI Mode returns AI-generated answers, cited sources, shopping cards, and local results that no official Google API or rank tracker exposes. The only way to access this data programmatically is through a real browser, and building that pipeline from scratch means managing proxy rotation, anti-bot detection, and constant parser maintenance every time Google updates its UI.
NetNut handles all of that for you. Send any search query to a single endpoint and get back a complete, structured JSON response with everything Google AI Mode returns, ready to plug directly into your SEO, BI, or competitive intelligence workflows.
Your team gets fast, reliable access at any scale, with city-level geo-targeting, multilingual support, and zero infrastructure to manage.
Monitor AI visibility, track ranking shifts, analyze citations, and deliver AI-search reporting alongside traditional SEO metrics.
Track how competitors appear in AI answers across markets and queries. Detect new entrants early and understand feature differentiation.
See how Google AI Mode recommends products, categories, and brands across regions. Understand which sources influence AI-driven shopping guidance.
Feed structured Google AI Mode data into dashboards, models, and decision frameworks. Turn AI search into a measurable, trackable performance layer.
Understand how AI models describe your brand, messaging, and category. Identify narrative gaps and shape content strategy accordingly.
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Google handles over 8.5 billion searches every day. With AI Mode rolling out globally, a growing share of those searches now return AI-generated answers instead of a traditional list of results. Users get direct recommendations, cited sources, and inline shopping results without clicking a single link.
Brands that understand this shift will adapt faster and capture more demand. The ones that don’t will lose visibility without knowing why. Google AI Mode Scraper API gives your team the data to stay on the right side of that divide.
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A complete structured JSON response with everything Google AI Mode shows for a given query: the full AI-generated answer, all cited sources with URLs and snippets, inline shopping cards with prices and product details, local place cards, and inline images. All fields are pre-extracted. No HTML parsing required.
Yes. The API supports city-level geo-targeting and multilingual queries across 100+ countries. This matters because AI Mode responses are highly location-sensitive. The same query can return different citations and recommendations depending on where the user is searching from.
Responses typically return in 11-15 seconds. Google AI Mode itself takes time to generate answers since it runs multiple sub-queries in parallel behind the scenes. For high-volume use cases, the API supports async and batch processing so you can run large numbers of queries without waiting on each one sequentially.
Yes, NetNut maintains and updates the parser every time Google changes AI Mode’s structure or output format. Your API calls and JSON schema stay consistent regardless of what Google does on the backend.
Yes. When a query triggers inline shopping cards or local place cards, the API captures them as structured data, including product names, prices, ratings, review counts, URLs, and business details. These result types are not available through any official Google API.
Yes. Scraping publicly available web data is legal in most jurisdictions. Google AI Mode results are publicly accessible to any user without authentication, and extracting that data for analysis, research, and business intelligence is a widely accepted practice. NetNut’s infrastructure is built to access data responsibly and at scale.
Pricing depends on your query volume and use case. NetNut offers flexible plans for teams of all sizes, from startups running exploratory research to enterprises monitoring thousands of queries daily. Contact the team for a quote or check the pricing page for current plan details.
Yes. NetNut offers a free trial so you can test the API with real queries before committing to a plan. No complex setup required — sign up, get your credentials, and send your first request within minutes.
The API works with any language that can send an HTTP request. NetNut provides ready-to-use code examples in Python, JavaScript, PHP, and cURL so you can integrate quickly regardless of your stack.
Sign up for a NetNut account, get your API credentials, and send your first request to the LLM Scraper endpoint. The API accepts standard requests with Basic Auth and full documentation is available at help.netnut.io. If you need help with your first integration, the team is available to assist.