[Google Local API] Include higher quality thumbnails

[sonika-serpapi]

Our Google Local API includes thumbnails which have a very low resolution of 90px/90px. A customer reported that when they show it on the mobile screen in their app, the quality is too low, so they are unable to use our APIs for their use case.

Public links: Playground 1

Internal links: Intercom | Inspect

[hilmanski]

I think it's the same size as Google Local provides. Link
Unless they provide a higher resolution, I don't think we're able to provide one.

When clicking one of the places, we can see the bigger version of the image (different size).

Maybe we can open a new feature request for that.

[sonika-serpapi]

Thanks @hilmanski for looking into this.
I saw that the image actually is available in a higher resolution 180x180, but it is only rendered on the page in 90x90. When clicking the image source link, I see a higher resolution image. Perhaps we can scrape this higher resolution image.

Example:

This looks like:

Example Google Local page: https://www.google.com/search?q=Coffee&hl=en&gl=us&tbm=lcl#r...

[hilmanski]

Thank you for providing more context. I somehow can't see the Coffee In in the left sidebar, so I can't debug the image; it's only available on the right panel:

Maybe we can share the:

• "Inspect page" on SerpApi so it's easier to replicate
• share the original link of the image you mentioned above.

On the sidenote, I'm currently seeing this URL for the image:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipO7cD8jBjNbxh-hIbaHRDtFLuFoghBuqD8sNDQO=w90-h90-n-k-no

Where we can tweak the URL to
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipO7cD8jBjNbxh-hIbaHRDtFLuFoghBuqD8sNDQO=w180-h180-n-k-no to get a higher resolution. Not sure if this image URL is also available on the endpoint we're currently using.

[sonika-serpapi]

Sure, I've added the inspect above. It does not provide the exact same image, but still represents the issue.

Here is an example image source link I see when I inspect the Google Local page:
data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/4QAqRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAABADEBAgAHAAAAGgAAAAAAAABHb29nbGUAAP/bAIQAAwICCwoKCgoLCg...
It's not really a link, I think it's a Base64-encoded image.

For thumbnails in our Google Local API response, I generally do see the links in the format you mentioned.