Use ScraperAPI Endpoint in PHP

Learn to use ScraperAPI's endpoint for web scraping in PHP. Configure parameters and send GET requests with API keys, enable JS rendering, and set geotargeting.

ScraperAPI exposes a single API endpoint for you to send GET requests. Simply send a GET request to http://api.scraperapi.com with two query string parameters and the API will return the HTML response for that URL:

api_key which contains your API key, and
url which contains the url you would like to scrape

You should format your requests to the API endpoint as follows:

<?php
$url =
"http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/ip"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,
TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,
FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,
0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,
0); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($response);

To enable other API functionality when sending a request to the API endpoint simply add the appropriate query parameters to the end of the ScraperAPI URL.

For example, if you want to enable Javascript rendering with a request, then add render=true to the request:

<?php
$url =
"http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&render=true"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,
TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,
FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,
0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,
0); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($response);

To use two or more parameters, simply separate them with the “&” sign.

<?php
$url =
"http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&render=true&country_code=us"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,
TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,
FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,
0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,
0); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($response);

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<?php $url = "http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/ip"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($response);

<?php $url = "http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&render=true"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($response);

<?php $url = "http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&render=true&country_code=us"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($response);