How to scrape Google AI Overviews using Python

Google’s AI Overviews are changing how search results are displayed, delivering AI-generated summaries at the very top of the SERP. While these responses are helpful for users, they’re tricky to capture programmatically. Whether you’re analyzing your brand presence, tracking how Google summarizes answers, or just experimenting with AI-generated content, scraping these overviews can unlock powerful insights. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can scrape AI overviews from Google search using Python and Scrapingdog’s Google Search API. What are AI Overviews? AI Overviews are Google’s experimental feature that uses generative AI to answer search queries directly at the top of the search results page. Instead of just showing blue links, Google summarizes information from various websites into a concise, natural-language response, often citing sources underneath. Google introduced this feature in May 2024, initially for users in the United States. It was later rolled out to other coun