`--fields` silently disables `--all-pages`: only page 1 is returned

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#8 opened on Jul 26, 2026 2 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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Description

--fields and --all-pages are mutually incompatible in practice. Combining them returns page 1 only, exits 0, and prints nothing to stderr. The pagination flag is inert.

Reproduction

# 2 pages, 18 results
serpapi search engine=google q=coffee --all-pages --max-pages 3 | jq '.organic_results | length'
# => 18

# same flags + --fields: 1 page, 8 results
serpapi search --fields "organic_results[].{title,link}" \
  engine=google q=coffee --all-pages --max-pages 3 | jq '.organic_results | length'
# => 8

# --fields alone, no pagination at all
serpapi search --fields "organic_results[].{title,link}" \
  engine=google q=coffee | jq '.organic_results | length'
# => 8

Runs 2 and 3 are byte-identical after jq -S '.organic_results'. adding --all-pages --max-pages 3 changes nothing.

Suspect

Passing --fields sets json_restrictor, which prunes the response server-side. That prune removes serpapi_pagination, the only thing the pagination loop reads to find the next page.

Environment

main @ 853dbae
go1.25.5, darwin/arm64
Verified with live API calls against engine=google

Dominant language: Go
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