Serpapi Webhooks Events

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Building long-running searches
• SERP monitoring
• With build SerpAPI async monitoring

Example prompts

• “build SerpAPI async monitoring”
• “/serpapi-webhooks-events”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in SERPAPI_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live async submission, polling, schedules, and downstream notifications require account and system-owner approval
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Confirm async is supported for the engine/account and that polling improves the use case over a bounded synchronous call.
2. 2Define states SUBMITTED, QUEUED, PROCESSING, SUCCEEDED, FAILED, EXPIRED, and TIMED_OUT with terminal behavior.
3. 3Submit with a parameter mapping containing "async": true; persist the search ID, normalized request hash, owner, deadline, and attempt…
4. 4Poll through the official client's archive method or documented archive endpoint with increasing delay, jitter, and a hard deadline.
5. 5On success, validate and normalize once; make downstream processing idempotent by search ID and payload version.
6. 6For scheduled monitoring, store snapshots and compare normalized business fields rather than unstable raw payload order.
7. 7Reconcile checkpoints, capacity consumption, missing terminal states, duplicates, late results, and notification failures.
8. 8Test every state transition with fixtures before enabling an approved live schedule.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. 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 python).

  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):

  • serpapi.com
  • github.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 async submission, polling, schedules, and downstream notifications require account and system-owner approval

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Serpapi Webhooks Events loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 451 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~62

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

~1.2k

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 cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 451 words, ~1,174 tokens.

name

serpapi-webhooks-events

description

Implement SerpAPI asynchronous searches and scheduled change detection without inventing a webhook callback contract. Use when building long-running searches or SERP monitoring. Trigger with "build SerpAPI async monitoring".

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code; live async submission, polling, schedules, and downstream notifications require account and system-owner approval

argument-hint

[engine] [poll-interval] [deadline]

version

1.6.0

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

license

MIT

tags

saas, serpapi, async, monitoring, archive

model

inherit

effort

high

submitted = client.search({"engine": "google", "q": "coffee", "async": True})
search_id = submitted["search_metadata"]["id"]

while before_deadline():
    archived = client.search_archive(search_id=search_id)
    status = archived["search_metadata"]["status"]
    if status in {"Success", "Error"}:
        break
    wait_with_jitter()

© 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-webhooks-events of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287