Bright Data's Baidu Search API automatically scrapes public data from Baidu's search engine. Baidu is constantly changing it’s SERP structure and algorithms. Search Engine Results Pages (SERP or SERPs) are also dynamic, meaning the results you see will depend on various factors like your search history, device, and location.

• Gather Accurate Data: Our residential network provides the absolute truth by gathering SERP data as a real-user.
• Reduce Costs: Save money on data extraction engineers and IT professionals without worrying about server maintenance.
• Adaptable: Easily integrated into all 3rd party crawler software.
• Avoid Operational Headaches: Each request is sent from a different IP ensuring no IP is flagged or banned.
• Built For Volume: Bright Data can support your growing traffic needs and peak periods.

Bright Data’s SERP API enables you to get real user search results from all major search engines using different search parameters, in real-time and with the highest success rates.

• High success rates, regardless of your requests volume.
• You will only pay for successful requests.
• Exceptional response time under 5 sec.
• Use different location parameters to automatically target a suitable peer to get a better understanding on how different location and time change the search results.
• Get responses in JSON or HTML format for easy integration with any system
• Use different search types to get the data you require.
• Use different devices for a more accurate search.
• ASYNC requests
• send your requests with a unique ID, no delays and receive results in a batch.

When you run the Baidu Search API, there is a background process responsible to send you back real user results in response.
You can test out what it would be like to perform a local search in our free SERP playground.

There is no special price for Baidu Search API. Visit the SERP pricing page for more information.

Yes,you can use the Baidu Search API for rank tracking. To learn more about leveraging SERP data, read our SERP & SEO use case

There are two modes to collect SERP data: synchronous and asynchronous requests:
Synchronous requests are direct: When you send a request, you’ll get the response in real-time

Asynchronous requests: When you send requests without waiting for the responses, and get ‘response IDs’ in return. We will store the responses for 24 hours from the time the request was sent. You can collect the responses at your convenience via API command or Webhook.

A proxy network is important for web scraping because it allows the scraper to remain anonymous, avoid IP blocking, access geo-restricted content, and improve scraping speed.