Multi-Vendor SERP Failover

The Problem

ScrapingRobot broke against anti-bot. Sonar credits wiped. SerpAPI has an active lawsuit. Single-vendor dependency is a production risk.

The Scavio Solution

Multi-vendor failover: Scavio primary → Serper fallback → emergency vendor. Automatic retry, normalized output, performance logging.

Who It Is For

Production search pipelines, enterprise teams, agencies billing on SLA guarantees, anyone who experienced a vendor outage.

Key Benefits

• Automatic failover prevents pipeline outages
• Normalized output across vendors
• Performance logging for vendor comparison
• Budget: same as single-vendor (failback only runs on failure)
• Vendor-neutral application code

Python Example

import requests, os
vendors = [
    {'name': 'scavio', 'url': 'https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/search',
     'headers': {'x-api-key': os.environ['SCAVIO_API_KEY']},
     'body': lambda q: {'platform': 'google', 'query': q}},
    {'name': 'serper', 'url': 'https://google.serper.dev/search',
     'headers': {'X-API-KEY': os.environ['SERPER_API_KEY']},
     'body': lambda q: {'q': q}},
]
def search(query):
    for v in vendors:
        try:
            r = requests.post(v['url'], headers=v['headers'], json=v['body'](query), timeout=15)
            if r.ok: return r.json()
        except: continue
    raise Exception('All vendors failed')

JavaScript Example

// Same failover pattern with try/catch in JS/TS

Platforms Used