Send your First Request

Now that you've got your API Key, you are ready to start sending requests. Let's start off by sending a GET request to https://api.scraperapi.com with the following mandatory parameters:

api_key - your API Key
url - target URL

curl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=API_KEY&url=https://www.example.com'

import requests

#Target URL
target_url = 'https://www.example.com'
# ScraperAPI API Key
api_key = 'API_KEY'

request_url = f'https://api.scraperapi.com?api_key={api_key}&url={target_url}'
response = requests.get(request_url)

print(response.text)

import request from 'node-fetch';

//Replace the value for api_key with your actual API Key
const url = 'http://api.scraperapi.com/?api_key=API_KEY&url=https://example.com/';

request(url)
  .then(response => {
    console.log(response);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error);
  });

<?php

//Replace the value for api_key with your actual API Key
$url = "http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=API_KEY&url=https://example.com/";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    print_r($response);
}

curl_close($ch);

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

#Replace the value for api_key with your actual API Key
params = {
  api_key: "API_KEY",
  url: "https://www.example.com/"
}

uri = URI('https://api.scraperapi.com/')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

website_content = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
print website_content

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        //Replace the value for api_key with your actual API Key
        String apiKey = "API_KEY";
        String targetUrl = "https://www.example.com/";

        String scraperApiUrl = "https://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=" + apiKey + "&url=" + targetUrl;

        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create(scraperApiUrl))
                .GET()
                .build();

        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

After the API processes the request, it will return the HTML response for the target URL that you specify.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
//<---truncated for better readability--->
</head>
<body>
<div>
    <h1>Example Domain</h1>
    <p>This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this
    domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission.</p>
    <p><a href="https://www.iana.org/domains/example">More information...</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

The example above demonstrates a basic request and just scratches the surface. ScraperAPI supports a list of parameters, that allow you to customize your requests: enable JS rendering, set geolocation, enable premium proxies and more. Refer to this section to find out more.

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