Live product prices from Google Shopping as clean JSON: title, price, seller, rating, and condition, across every seller. One credit per result, empty searches free.
Around 40 products per search. The condition field flags refurbished, pre-owned, and open-box listings, which most shopping APIs drop.
Google does have Shopping APIs. They just point the other way. The Merchant API and the Content API for Shopping only let you manage the products in your own Merchant Center. There is no official Google API that returns the public Shopping results, the cross-seller prices shoppers actually see.
"Merchants can use the products resource to create an online store catalog, that is a list of products and offers that are available on Google Shopping."
Google Content API for Shopping docs, checked July 13, 2026Even Google's own "price competitiveness" report only covers products you already sell in Merchant Center. It can't search a product you don't list, and it never returns the public ranking. If your job is monitoring competitor prices, tracking a product across sellers, or catching refurbished listings, the official APIs can't do it. That gap is why a Google Shopping results API exists.
| Merchant / Content API | CrustAPI Shopping | |
|---|---|---|
| Whose products | Only your own Merchant Center catalog | Every seller in the public results |
| Competitor prices | No (only same-SKU, for products you list) | Yes, across all sellers |
| Condition (refurb, used) | Not a search result | Included per listing |
| Price per 1,000 | Not applicable | $1.96, to $0.40 at scale |
| Free tier | Merchant account required | 3,000 credits / month, no card |
Official product facts from Google's Merchant API and Content API for Shopping docs, checked July 13, 2026.
Prepaid packs, credits never expire: 25k for $49, 100k for $149, 500k for $549, up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. A search that returns 40 products costs 40 credits; a search that returns none costs nothing. It's a drop-in swap for serper: same JSON shape, just point your requests here.
When the official Merchant API is the right tool: you're managing your own store's product feed, syncing inventory to Google, or running your own Shopping ads. It's built for that and it's good at it. This API is for the opposite job, reading the public results you don't control.
3,000 free credits covers a real price-monitoring run. Point a product query at the API and read the JSON.
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