"error": "Missing query `q` parameter."

[serpapi]

"error": "Missing query `q` parameter."

[hshi420]

But the variables do have the correct results.

[dimitryzub]

Hi @hshi420, thank you for reaching out 🙂

1. Could you please provide a full traceback or a screenshot of the error?
2. Could you please provide a code snippet of your search params, or a screenshot? By search params I meant this:

params = {
  "api_key": "...",
  "engine": "google",
  "q": "Coffee",
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en"
}

3. What API do you use? Google Search/Google Maps, etc?

I'll reopen this issue as we're not helped you yet 🙂

[hshi420]

Hi @hshi420, thank you for reaching out 🙂

1. Could you please provide a full traceback or a screenshot of the error?

2. Could you please provide a code snippet of your search params, or a screenshot? By search params I meant this:

params = {

  "api_key": "...",

  "engine": "google",

  "q": "Coffee",

  "gl": "us",

  "hl": "en"

}

3. What API do you use? Google Search/Google Maps, etc?

I'll reopen this issue as we're not helped you yet 🙂

Hi, the problem was on my end and the problem was solved, which was the reason why I closed the issue. Thank you!

[dimitryzub]

@hshi420 Got it! That's great that the issue was solved 🙂 Thank you for clarifying, I'll close this issue then. Feel free to open if you need to.

[myrthebuckens]

I have the same issue! Even when I copy the code from the playground into my script I get this error.

I wrote the following:

params = {
"api_key": personal_key,
"engine": "google_maps",
"type": "search",
"google_domain": "google.com",
"q": "Coffee",
"hl": "en",
"ll": "@52.092876,5.104480,15.1z"
}

search = GoogleSearch(params)
results = search.get_dict()

[myrthebuckens]

The error is then the following: "error": "Missing query q parameter."
}

[dimitryzub]

Hey, @myrthebuckens 🙂

A few obvious questions for the sake of clarity:

1. Did you pip install google-search-results?
2. Did you import it? Didn't see in your code snippet.
3. If you're in the virtual environment, did you switch to it? E.g $ source <virtual_env_name>/bin/activate
4. personal_key is a global variable? Have you tried passing your SerpApi API key directly to "api_key" under params? ("api_key": "1111adsad131")

Looking forward to your reply ✨