Support compression (gzip)

[NateSkiles]

A customer requested that we add the ability to return compressed search results. Currently, we support this through CURL requests when setting the Accept-Encoding header to gzip.

curl -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -D - \
  "https://serpapi.com/search?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google&q=Coffee&location=Austin,+Texas,+United+States&google_domain=google.com&gl=us&hl=en&no_cache=true" \
  -o output.json.gz

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[jvmvik]

Hi Nate,
is it supported by the backend for all endpoints ?
if it's the case, all the library will need to be updated/

[ilyazub]

@jvmvik Sure, compression is enabled for entire https://serpapi.com/ origin.

[NateSkiles]

@ilyazub — just to confirm: compressed responses aren't supported in the Python package, correct? Accept-Encoding can be passed via cURL, but we currently do not have a way to request a compressed response via the package.