Getting mobile search results using API v1

Mobile search results differ from default search results by the ranking formula and presence of links to websites optimized for mobile devices.

To get mobile search results:

1. Add to your request a header entitled user-agent containing the device and browser description. Here is an example:

   cURL

   Python

   curl \
     --header 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1' \
     '<GET request>'
   

   import subprocess
   
   MOBILE_HEADER = 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1'
   URL = f'<GET request>'
   with open('mob.xml', 'w') as f:
      subprocess.run(['curl', '-H', MOBILE_HEADER, URL], stdout=f)
   

   Note

   The above example uses a GET request. If using a POST request, add a similar header.

2. Set the remaining request parameters based on the specification and send the request.

Mobile search results will be different from default search results by the website ranking, total number of results found, and some other parameters.