AI Overview

Get the Google AI Overview for any search query — the AI-generated answer that appears at the top of search results. Returns the full text, source citations, and referenced businesses/sites.

When to use this

You want to see what Google's AI says about your business or keyword at the top of search results. Is Google's AI mentioning your competitors but not you? This shows you exactly what shows up in the AI answer box and which websites it references.

POST/v1/serp/ai-overview

Cost: 2 credits ($0.01)

Rate Limit: Varies by plan

Response: ~10-30 seconds

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
keyword	string	Yes	Search keyword
location	string	Yes	City and state
fresh	boolean	No	Bypass the cached answer and run the request again. Always billed; the response reports cached: false. Use when sampling the same prompt to measure how the answer varies.

Example Request

curl -X POST https://api.localseodata.com/v1/serp/ai-overview \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_your_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword": "best plumber in Austin", "location": "Austin, TX"}'

Example Response

JSON

{
  "status": "success",
  "credits_used": 2,
  "data": {
    "has_ai_overview": true,
    "asynchronous_ai_overview": false,
    "summary_text": "Based on Google reviews and local rankings, some of the highest-rated plumbers in Austin include...",
    "cited_sources": [
      { "title": "ABC Plumbing - Austin TX", "url": "https://abcplumbing.com", "domain": "abcplumbing.com", "position": 1 },
      { "title": "Top 10 Plumbers in Austin", "url": "https://yelp.com/...", "domain": "yelp.com", "position": 2 }
    ],
    "keyword": "best plumber in Austin",
    "location": "Austin, TX"
  }
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
has_ai_overview	boolean	Whether Google showed an AI Overview for this query
asynchronous_ai_overview	boolean	Whether Google rendered the overview after the results page loaded. We fetch those too, so summary_text and cited_sources are populated either way — this field tells you how Google served it, not whether we could read it.
summary_text	string	The AI-generated answer text
cited_sources	array	Websites and pages cited by the AI Overview ({title, url, domain, position}). position is the order the overview cited them, starting at 1, counted after duplicate pages are collapsed.

Notes

Not all queries trigger an AI Overview — has_ai_overview will be false when Google doesn't show one.
asynchronous_ai_overview: true means Google generated the overview after the results page loaded — the common case now. This endpoint fetches those overviews, so you still get summary_text and cited_sources. If you read ai_overview off /v1/serp/organic instead, you will see the overview flagged but empty; use this endpoint for the content.
Being cited in AI Overviews is becoming a major visibility factor for local businesses.
Track which competitors are cited to understand Google's AI perception of your market.