Every AI Overview is rendered in a real browser, then returned structured in the JSON. Three distinct placements, extracted separately.
AI Overviews in the API
Retrieve a site presence in Google AI-generated answers. Three placements are extracted from every AI Overview.
Citations
The brand is mentioned in the AI-generated text.
Citation sources
The link is cited below the text, as the source of a citation.
Source panel
The site appears in the side panel of sources.
Including the ones that show up after load. Especially those.
The brand inside the generated text
Citations
The API detects every mention of a brand in the body of the AI-generated answer. A citation can appear without any link to the site: it is returned in a field of its own, separate from the sources.
The link below the generated text
Citation sources
Google attaches sources to the citations it produces. The API returns their URL and their position among the others, for every keyword and every call.
The site in the side panel
Source panel
The source panel lists the sites used to build the answer. The API returns the full list and the rank of each domain, competitors included.
A real browser, that waits
Captured at the right moment
An AI Overview may already sit in the SERP at load time, or only arrive later, asynchronously. A scraper that reads the initial HTML catches the first case and misses the second. We render every SERP in a real browser, and we wait.
