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Serply

Pulls live search results, news, and academic papers into your workflows to ground AI responses in current web data and track competitor rankings in real time.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Serply integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Serply calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Serply data, across all 3 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Serply access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Serply, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Serply is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Serply.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Serply action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Serply, and when to use it.

Search Google
Use this to pull live organic search results from Google for a specific query. Ideal for general web research and grounding.
Search Google News
Pull the latest news articles and headlines. Use this for brand monitoring and current event tracking.
Search Google Scholar
Retrieve academic papers and citations. Use this when a workflow needs peer reviewed evidence or technical research.
Search Google Jobs
Pull active job listings. Use this to track competitor hiring trends or find talent pools.
Search Bing
Pull search results from Bing to compare rankings or cross reference data across different search engines.
Scrape Page
Extract the full text and HTML content from a specific URL found in search results for deeper analysis.
Get SERP Details
Pull detailed metadata for a specific search result including snippets, sitelinks, and rich result data.
Search Images
Find image results and source URLs for a specific query. Useful for visual competitive audits.
Search Videos
Retrieve video results and links. Use this to find mentions of your brand on YouTube or other platforms.
Check Site Index
Verify if a specific URL is indexed by Google. Use this for SEO health checks after a site launch.
Get Search Suggestions
Pull the auto complete suggestions for a query to find related keywords and user intent.
Search Local
Pull local business results and map data for a specific geographic area.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven manages Serply requests through an internal queue that respects the limits of your specific Serply subscription tier. If a workflow triggers a massive bulk search that exceeds your current credits per minute, Ceven will pause the execution and retry the requests using an exponential backoff strategy. You can configure the concurrency settings in the agent settings to slow down the request rate if you are on a lower tier. We ensure that your API key is never blocked by avoiding sudden bursts of thousands of requests in a single second, keeping your search pipeline steady and reliable.
Yes. When using the search actions, you can pass date parameters to restrict results to the last hour, day, week, or month. This is particularly useful for the Google News and Google Scholar actions where recency is critical. The agent can be instructed to only pull results from the last twenty four hours to create a daily morning brief. If you leave the date blank, Serply returns the most relevant results regardless of when they were published, which is better for evergreen research tasks or general knowledge retrieval.
The initial search action returns the snippet and the URL. To get the full content of the page, you must use the Scrape Page action. Ceven typically chains these two together. The agent first searches for the most relevant links and then iterates through the top three or five results to scrape the full body text. This two step process prevents unnecessary credit consumption by ensuring the agent only scrapes pages that are actually relevant to your query rather than blindly scraping every result.
Some websites employ aggressive bot detection that can block scraping requests. When this happens, Serply returns a specific error code which Ceven interprets as a block. The agent will then attempt to find an alternative source for the same information from the other search results. If all top results are blocked, the agent will notify you in the workflow logs that the content was inaccessible. Because Serply uses a rotating proxy network, most common blocks are avoided, but highly protected sites may still resist automated extraction.
Absolutely. You can build a workflow that runs a specific set of keywords through Serply every day. The agent pulls the position of your domain in the organic results and writes that number to a database or spreadsheet. By doing this over time, you create a historical record of your search visibility. You can even set up an alert so that if your site drops more than three positions for a high value keyword, the agent sends an urgent message to your Slack channel.
The limit is primarily determined by your Serply credit balance. Each search and each scrape consumes credits at different rates. Within Ceven, we recommend limiting the number of pages scraped per workflow run to avoid draining your credits too quickly. For example, you can tell the agent to only scrape the top five results. If you attempt to scrape hundreds of pages in a single loop, you may hit your monthly credit ceiling faster than expected, and the workflow will pause until your credits reset.
Yes. Serply supports multi language queries and can target specific regional search engines. You can specify the country and language parameters in the search action to get results as they appear to a user in a different part of the world. This is essential for global brands that need to see how their local presence looks in different markets. The agent can handle the translation of these results if you connect a translation tool further down the workflow chain.
Your Serply API key is stored using industry standard encryption at rest. It is never exposed in the clear to other users or within the prompt logs. When an agent makes a call to Serply, the key is injected into the request header at the system level. This means the LLM never sees the key and cannot leak it in a response. You can update or rotate your key at any time in the integration settings, and the changes take effect immediately across all active workflows.

Alternatives to Serply

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