---
title: Common
slug: valueserp/common
createdAt: 2024-05-29T08:06:42.004Z
---

<font color="#3b9f0f">`GET` </font>**`/search`**

The following parameters are used to configure your Search API request. They should be appended as querystring parameters to the Search API `GET` HTTP request.

The parameters below are **common** to all Search API requests regardless of the `engine` chosen.

SerpWow lets you search [Google](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/google/search), [Bing](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/bing/search), [Yahoo](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/yahoo/search), [Baidu](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/baidu/search), [Yandex](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/yandex/search), [Naver](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/naver/search), [Amazon](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/amazon/search) or [Ebay](https://www.serpwow.com/docs/search-api/searches/ebay/search) by specifying the `engine` parameter.

An example request is below:

:::CodeblockTabs
HTTP

```none
https://api.serpwow.com/live/search?api_key=demo&q=pizza&location=United+States
```

```curl
curl --get https://api.serpwow.com/live/search \
          -d api_key="demo" \
          -d q="pizza" \
          -d location="United States"
```

```nodejs
const axios = require('axios');

// set up the request parameters
const params = {
  api_key: "demo",
  q: "pizza",
  location: "United States"
}

// make the http GET request to SerpWow
axios.get('https://api.serpwow.com/live/search', { params })
  .then(response => {

    // print the JSON response from SerpWow
    console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data, 0, 2));

  }).catch(error => {
    // catch and print the error
    console.log(error);
  })
```

```python
import requests
import json

# set up the request parameters
params = {
  'api_key': 'demo',
  'q': 'pizza',
  'location': 'United States'
}

# make the http GET request to SerpWow
api_result = requests.get('https://api.serpwow.com/live/search', params)

# print the JSON response from SerpWow
print(json.dumps(api_result.json()))
```

```php
# set up the request parameters
$queryString = http_build_query([
  'api_key' => 'demo',
  'q' => 'pizza',
  'location' => 'United States'
]);

# make the http GET request to SerpWow
$ch = curl_init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https://api.serpwow.com/live/search', $queryString));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
# the following options are required if you're using an outdated OpenSSL version
# more details: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/LetsEncryptRootCertExpire/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 180);

$api_result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

# print the JSON response from SerpWow
echo $api_result;
```
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