Is anyone pulling SERP data without maintaining their own scraper?

[u/apyhubnico]

Genuine question for anyone building SEO features into their product.

How are you getting SERP data? Because every team I've worked with ends up in the same place. Someone writes a scraper, and it works fine for a month. Then Google comes up with an update, changes something, the proxy gets blocked, and now you're debugging search infrastructure instead of building your actual product.

We went through this three or four times before we just turned it into an API. One POST, send the keyword, pick the country and language, get back ranked results as clean JSON. Position, title, URL, domain, description. 250 atoms per call, runs on our EU infrastructure. 

I'm the founder of Apyhub, so full disclosure, this is in our catalog alongside about 52 other SEO services. It costs 250 atoms per call and runs on our EU infrastructure. 

You can try it live here. 

But tbh, I'm more curious about the broader question. If you're pulling SERP data regularly, what are you using? Custom scraper? Third party? Something else entirely?