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People Also Ask

Reference for the People Also Ask block that cloro surfaces inside a Google Search response, covering both link-backed answers and optionally hydrated AI Overview entries.

Overview

People Also Ask is not a standalone endpoint. Its questions ship as part of the standard Google Search payload, so once you run a Google extraction the data is already available under the peopleAlsoAsk array — no additional request is required.

Each entry carries a type that tells you how to read the rest of its fields:

Type	Meaning
`LINK`	A cited answer that includes a snippet, a title, and a source link.
`AIOVERVIEW`	An AI-generated summary. When hydration is requested and succeeds, it also carries markdown content and a list of sources.
`UNKNOWN`	An entry cloro could not classify; only the question text is returned.

By default the questions are returned without AI Overview hydration. To fill in markdown and sources for AIOVERVIEW items, set include.paaAioverview to true on the request body:

{
  "query": "best laptops for programming",
  "country": "US",
  "include": {
    "paaAioverview": true
  }
}

Item structure

Field	Type	Description
`question`	string	The question shown in the People Also Ask block.
`type`	string	Classification of the entry: `AIOVERVIEW`, `LINK`, or `UNKNOWN`.
`snippet`	string	Short answer text. Present on `LINK` entries.
`title`	string	Title of the cited result. Present on `LINK` entries.
`link`	string	Destination URL of the cited result. Present on `LINK` entries.
`markdown`	string	Hydrated AI Overview body in markdown. Present on `AIOVERVIEW` entries when `include.paaAioverview` is `true`.
`sources`	array	Cited references for the summary. Present on `AIOVERVIEW` entries when hydration is enabled.

Hydrated sources

Source objects appear only on AIOVERVIEW entries where include.paaAioverview is true and hydration completes successfully. Their shape mirrors the source objects used elsewhere in the AI Overview data.

Field	Type	Description
`label`	string	Display title of the source.
`url`	string	Link to the source page.
`description`	string	Short summary of what the source covers.
`position`	number	1-indexed ordering of the source within the list.

Response example

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "peopleAlsoAsk": [
      {
        "question": "What laptop do most programmers use?",
        "type": "LINK",
        "snippet": "Many developers favor MacBooks or ThinkPads for their durability and strong Linux support.",
        "title": "Popular laptop choices among developers",
        "link": "https://example.com/popular-dev-laptops"
      },
      {
        "question": "Is 16GB RAM enough for programming?",
        "type": "AIOVERVIEW",
        "markdown": "For most programming work, including web and mobile development, 16GB of RAM is comfortably sufficient...",
        "sources": [
          {
            "position": 1,
            "label": "How much memory developers actually need",
            "url": "https://example.com/ram-for-developers",
            "description": "A look at memory requirements across common development workloads."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "question": "What does a programmer's setup look like?",
        "type": "UNKNOWN"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Notes

Because these entries travel inside the Google Search response, you can read them alongside organic results, sponsored ads, and other blocks without issuing a second call. If you do not need AI Overview bodies, leave include.paaAioverview unset to keep payloads lean. Questions on any hydration or field-mapping issues can go to [email protected].