Serpapi SDK Patterns

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Production code needs a stable search adapter
• With design a SerpAPI client wrapper

Example prompts

• “design a SerpAPI client wrapper”
• “/serpapi-sdk-patterns”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in SERPAPI_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live client verification requires a separately approved key and allowance
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Define a request type that admits only supported engines and application-controlled locale, safety, pagination, and output options.
2. 2Define a normalized response type with explicit optional sections and vendor metadata isolated from domain data.
3. 3Inject the official client behind a small interface so fixtures can replace it without network interception.
4. 4Centralize timeouts, bounded retry for transient failures, 429 classification, redaction, and search-ID logging.
5. 5For Python, use yield_pages() only with a page/search budget; for JavaScript, implement engine-specific manual pagination from documented…
6. 6Select JSON for structured parsing, Markdown for token-efficient agent consumption, HTML only for approved debugging, and json_restrictor…
7. 7Add contract tests for empty-success, optional sections, processing/error states, pagination termination, timeout, and redaction.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 80f86df. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • WebFetch
  • Write
  • Edit

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • github.com
  • serpapi.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • SERPAPI_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code; live client verification requires a separately approved key and allowance

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Serpapi SDK Patterns loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 377 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~66

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit 80f86df, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 377 words, ~1,050 tokens.

name

serpapi-sdk-patterns

description

Wrap the official SerpAPI Python or JavaScript client behind typed, testable boundaries with safe errors, pagination, and output selection. Use when production code needs a stable search adapter. Trigger with "design a SerpAPI client wrapper".

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code; live client verification requires a separately approved key and allowance

argument-hint

[python|typescript] [engine]

version

1.6.0

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

license

MIT

tags

saas, serpapi, sdk, architecture, typescript

model

inherit

effort

high

import { getJson } from "serpapi";

export async function searchGoogle(query: string) {
  const result = await getJson({
    engine: "google",
    q: query,
    api_key: process.env.SERPAPI_KEY,
    json_restrictor: "organic_results[].{position,title,link}",
  });
  return (result.organic_results ?? []).map(({ position, title, link }) => ({
    position, title, link,
  }));
}

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/serpapi-sdk-patterns of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 80f86df