Do I need an account to use the playground?

No. Search, News, Images and Autocomplete run on a keyless demo endpoint with a small daily limit per IP address. Other endpoints (Maps, Places, Reviews, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, Lens, Webpage, Custom Search) need your own API key.

Where is my API key stored?

Only in this browser tab's sessionStorage. It is sent straight from your browser to api.serpkite.com in the Authorization: Bearer header, never to serpkite.com, and it is never put in the page URL. Closing the tab forgets it.

Are playground requests billed?

Demo requests are free. With your own key, requests are billed exactly like any API call: 1 credit per page of 10 results, 7 for num=100, +1 per page with include_content. Failed and empty responses are refunded.

Can I share a playground query?

Yes. The URL updates as you change the endpoint, query and options, so you can copy it (or press Share) and send it. The key is never part of the link.

What do the Markdown and Compact formats do?

format=markdown returns LLM-ready Markdown instead of JSON; format=compact returns JSON with only the fields agents usually need. Both typically cut 60–80% of the tokens of a full SERP. The Headers tab shows the X-Tokens-Estimate for each response.

Playground

Run a live Google search

No signup for Search, News, Images and Autocomplete. Paste your key to try every endpoint and see real billing headers.

Endpoint

Query (q)

Country

Language

Location (optional)

Device

Format

Time

Results (num)

Fields (optional)Comma-separated projection. Fewer fields, fewer tokens.

include_content

Use my API key (optional)

Without a key you use the free demo (limited per day). With a key, requests are billed to your account. Stored in this tab only (sessionStorage). Get a free key

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Demo requests are free and limited per day. With a key this costs 1 credit.

Keyless demoPOST /playground/search

Preview

JSON

Markdown

Headers

Code

Run a request to see the response here.

What you get

Everything the API returns, before you write code

Every endpoint

Search, News, Images, Maps, Places, Reviews, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, Autocomplete, Lens, Webpage and the CSE-compatible endpoint.

JSON, compact or Markdown

Flip format and compare token counts. The Markdown tab also converts any JSON response in your browser.

See the bill

Credits used, credits remaining, cache status, latency and a token estimate come back in response headers.

Copy working code

The Code tab turns the current request into cURL, the official TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs, fetch or PHP.

FAQ

Playground questions

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Everything the API returns, before you write code

Every endpoint

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Playground questions

01Do I need an account to use the playground?

02Where is my API key stored?

03Are playground requests billed?

04Can I share a playground query?

05What do the Markdown and Compact formats do?

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