# Google About This Result

Returns the About this result panel of Google for a URL: source name and type, description, the first indexed note, web results about the source and the not-an-ad note. 1 credit per successful request. Failed requests are free.

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/google-about-this-result-api/google_about_this_result](https://scrappa.co/docs/google-about-this-result-api/google_about_this_result)
- **API group:** Google About This Result API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/google/about-this-result`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `url` | string | Yes | Result URL (http or https, up to 2048 characters), for example https://www.nytimes.com/. Google looks it up. The URL is not fetched. |
| `hl` | string | No | Interface language code, for example en. Defaults to en. |

## Example request

```bash
#!/bin/bash

curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
    "https://scrappa.co/api/google/about-this-result?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F"
```

## Example response

```json
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "search_parameters": {
            "engine": "google_about_this_result",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/",
            "hl": "en"
        },
        "source": {
            "name": "The New York Times",
            "type": "Newspaper",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/"
        },
        "description": "Established in 1851 as the New-York Daily Times, The New York Times (NYT) is a Manhattan-based newspaper and digital media brand widely recognized as a U.S. newspaper of record.",
        "first_indexed": null,
        "results_about_source": [
            {
                "title": "The New York Times",
                "snippet": "The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company. Since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family.",
                "source": "Wikipedia",
                "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times"
            }
        ],
        "not_an_ad_note": "This is a search result, not an ad. Only ads are paid, and they'll always be labeled with \"Sponsored\" or \"Ad.\""
    },
    "meta": {
        "duration_ms": 1900
    }
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 422 | Validation Error | url is missing, too long, not http or https, has no valid host or contains credentials. This response is not billable. |
| 503 | About This Result Unavailable | Google returned no source panel for this URL or blocked the request. This response is not billable. |

## More Scrappa resources

- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
- [Pricing](https://scrappa.co/pricing)