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Jens Kastensson

For a cloud-free voice control product for home automation, this feature has been asked for. Example result "36 min (18.0 km) via D4"

Is this possible already, or is it planned ?

December 9, 2021

Terry Tan

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Hi Jens Kastensson, we have just made this new API available. You can checkout the doc here https://serpapi.com/direct-answer-box-api (scroll to bottom). Hope you have great time experimenting it :)

Jens Kastensson

Terry Tan: thank you so much, this looks great!

Jens Kastensson

Terry Tan: I have tested the new feature, and it works as expected, that is great :)

Thanks again for the swift response and a great application !

Terry Tan

Jens Kastensson: Thats great to hear. Thanks for supporting :)

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Ali

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Ali

Hello Jens,
I hope you are doing well.
Could you please elaborate more about which API and what are you exactly trying to scrape? An example would be great.

Jens Kastensson

Hello Ali and thank you for getting back !
Here's the use case:
The user owns a Voice control device, like Alexa but on-board voice recognition.
The user configures the home address to e.g. "Lexington St, Manor, TX 78653" and the work address to "5540 N Lamar Blvd #12 Austin, TX 78756"
The user asks the Voice control device: "How's the traffic to work?"
The device queries SerpApi see below
The device replies: "It will be 13 minutes via 290 toll"
Step 4. in detail: The voice control device would send a query to serpapi/google: "drive from Lexington St, Manor, TX 78653 to 5540 N Lamar Blvd #12 Austin, TX 78756"
And SerpApi would magically return the gmaps answer :-)
https://www.google.com/search?q=drive+from+Lexington+St%2C+Manor%2C+TX+78653+to+5540+N+Lamar+Blvd+%2312+Austin%2C+TX+78756+&newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-d&biw=1417&bih=725&ei=IEGzYdHSNM-elwTxpJPIAw&ved=0ahUKEwjR4p6kl9n0AhVPz4UKHXHSBDkQ4dUDCBc&uact=5&oq=drive+from+Lexington+St%2C+Manor%2C+TX+78653+to+5540+N+Lamar+Blvd+%2312+Austin%2C+TX+78756+&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6CggAEEcQsAMQyQM6BwgAEEcQsAM6BAghEApKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQ6hVY4n9g25YBaAFwAngAgAG8AYgB9wSSAQMxLjSYAQCgAQGgAQLIAQjAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz

Ali

Jens Kastensson: Hello Jens,

Thank you for the detailed response. I have internally documented this request. However, as this is a feature request, it will take us some time to implement this.