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name: serpapi description: Search Google for company profiles, product pages, and reviews using SerpAPI

SerpAPI Skill

This skill uses SerpAPI to perform Google searches and Google News searches. It's useful for finding company profiles on various platforms and discovering news articles.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• You need to find company profiles on Crunchbase, WellFound, LinkedIn
• You want to search for pricing pages or product features
• You need to find customer reviews on Trustpilot, ProductHunt
• You want to find recent news articles about a company

How to Use

Prerequisites

• SERPAPI_API_KEY environment variable must be set

Basic Usage

Copy# Regular Google search
search.sh "query" [num_results]

# Google News search
news-search.sh "query"

Parameters

Examples

Copy# Find Crunchbase profile
search.sh "site:crunchbase.com/organization notion"

# Find WellFound profile
search.sh "site:wellfound.com/company notion"

# Find LinkedIn company page
search.sh "site:linkedin.com/company notion"

# Find pricing page
search.sh "notion pricing plans"

# Find reviews
search.sh "notion reviews site:trustpilot.com OR site:producthunt.com" 5

# Find news articles
news-search.sh "notion funding announcement"

Output

search.sh

Results are saved to /tmp/data/search_[timestamp].json:

Copy{
  "organic_results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Notion - Crunchbase Company Profile",
      "link": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/notion",
      "snippet": "Notion is a collaboration platform...",
      "source": "Crunchbase"
    }
  ]
}

news-search.sh

Results are saved to /tmp/data/news_[timestamp].json:

Copy{
  "news_results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Notion Raises $275M Series C",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/...",
      "snippet": "Notion announced today...",
      "source": "TechCrunch",
      "date": "2 days ago"
    }
  ]
}

Guidelines

1. Use site-specific queries for targeted searches (e.g., site:crunchbase.com)
2. Limit results to reduce API usage
3. News search is useful for recent company announcements
4. Combine multiple sites with OR operator for broader searches

Error Handling

• 401 Unauthorized: Check that SERPAPI_API_KEY is set correctly
• 429 Rate Limited: Wait and retry, consider reducing request frequency
• No Results: Try a broader or alternative query