The Problem
Google sued SerpAPI in December 2025 alleging DMCA violations and SearchGuard circumvention. Hearing scheduled May 19 2026. Procurement teams are factoring vendor risk into 2026 stack decisions.
How Scavio Helps
- Reduced single-vendor concentration
- Multi-vendor default avoids existential vendor failure
- Scavio is independent from the SerpAPI lawsuit
- Pure-play SERP API with first-party LangChain + MCP
- Honest framing: outcome unknown; risk-management is the rationale
Relevant Platforms
Web search with knowledge graph, PAA, and AI overviews
Quick Start: Python Example
Here is a quick example searching Google for "Production SERP traffic split: 60% Scavio (default), 30% Serper (cost-cheap fallback), 10% SerpAPI (legacy code paths) → drop SerpAPI to 0% if injunction lands":
import requests
API_KEY = "your_scavio_api_key"
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/search",
headers={
"x-api-key": API_KEY,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"query": query},
)
data = response.json()
for result in data.get("organic_results", [])[:5]:
print(f"{result['position']}. {result['title']}")
print(f" {result['link']}\n")Built for Procurement teams, engineering leads, vendor-risk-conscious founders setting up new SERP-dependent products
Scavio handles the search infrastructure — proxies, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, and anti-bot detection — so you can focus on building your post-serpapi-lawsuit vendor decision solution. The API returns structured JSON that is ready for processing, analysis, or feeding into AI agents.
Start with the free tier (50 credits on signup, no credit card required) and scale to paid plans when you need higher volume.