# Google Search AI Overviews

> Google Search AI Overviews is a paid API for AI agents from agents.openwebninja.com, paid per call via MPP, price unknown, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Fetches real-time Google Search AI Overview summaries, including structured text parts (paragraphs and lists) and reference links, for a given search query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.openwebninja.com/ai-overviews/ai-overviews?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: price unknown
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: agents.openwebninja.com
- Website: https://agents.openwebninja.com
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-openwebninja-com-google-search-ai-overviews-1f6413fc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_U4kcfTVsDN6hclF8er3-X

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agents-openwebninja-com-google-search-ai-overviews-1f6413fc
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Google AI Overview for 'best practices for React performance optimization' — search as if it's coming from San Francisco, California, United States?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need Google's AI-generated overview summary (the AI synopsis box) for a query, including its structured text breakdown and cited sources, rather than a list of organic search results. Ideal for research agents that want a quick, authoritative AI-synthesized answer with references, or when you need to check whether Google has generated an AI Overview for a particular topic. Prefer over general search endpoints when the goal is the AI summary specifically, not ranked web links.

## Known failure modes

- Google does not return an AI Overview for the query (search_returned_ai_overviews: false) — some queries don't trigger AI Overviews
- Invalid or unsupported gl/hl country or language codes result in malformed requests
- Rate limits or upstream Google changes may cause intermittent failures
- Queries with very niche or sensitive topics may be suppressed by Google and return no AI Overview
- Network or proxy errors from the OpenWeb Ninja intermediary layer

## How this service works

Get Google Search AI Overviews, including text parts (paragraphs and lists) and reference links. Pulled in real-time from Google Search.

## Output

Returns an object indicating whether Google returned AI Overviews for the query (search_returned_ai_overviews boolean), along with structured text content (paragraphs and lists) from the AI Overview and reference links used as sources. Also includes a request status string and a unique request_id for tracking.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "q"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search query."
  },
  "gl": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "us",
   "description": "The country / region for which to make the query. 2-letter country code, see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2."
  },
  "hl": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "en",
   "description": "The language to use for the search (Google's hl parameter). 2-letter country code, see ISO 639-1 alpha-2."
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Where you want the search to originate from. \n  It is recommended to specify location at the city level in order to simulate a real user’s search (e.g. London, England, United Kingdom)."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "search_returned_ai_overviews": {
     "type": "boolean",
     "description": "Indicates if AI Overviews were returned in the search results"
    }
   }
  },
  "status": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "The status of the API response"
  },
  "request_id": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "A unique identifier for the API request"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-openwebninja-com-google-search-ai-overviews-1f6413fc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agents.openwebninja.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.openwebninja.com/llms.txt)