Making POST/PUT Requests

Some advanced users may want to send POST/PUT requests in order to scrape forms and API endpoints directly. You can do this by sending a POST/PUT request through ScraperAPI. The return value will be stringified. So if you want to use it as JSON, you will need to parse it into a JSON object.

• API ENDPOINT REQUEST

<?php
$url = "http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=http://httpbin.org/anything";

# POST/PUT Requests
$postData = ["foo" =>"bar"]; 
$postData = json_encode($postData);
$headers = [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
];  
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

#Post Fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($response);

#Form POST Request
$postData = ["foo" => "bar"]; 
$postData = json_encode($postData); 
$headers = [ 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8', ];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($response);
?>

• PROXY MODE

<?php
$postData = ["foo"=>"bar"];
$postData = json_encode($postData);
$headers = [
  "Content-Type: application/json"
];

# POST/PUT Request
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://httpbin.org/ip");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://scraperapi:[e-mail]:8001");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);  //Post Fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

var_dump($response);
puts results 

# Form Data POST Request
$postData = ["foo"=>"bar"];
$postData = json_encode($postData);
$headers = [
  'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8',
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://httpbin.org/ip");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://scraperapi:[e-mail]:8001");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

print_r($response);

• SDK Method

# remember to install the library: composer require scraperapi/sdk
<?php
  $client = new ScraperAPIClient("APIKEY");
  $postResult = $client->post("http://httpbin.org/ip", ["foo" => "bar"])->raw_body;
  $putResult = $client->put("http://httpbin.org/ip", ["foo" => "bar"])->raw_body;

  print($putResult);

• ASYNC Method

$url = "http://async.scraperapi.com"

#Form POST Request

$postData = json_encode([
    "url" => "https://httpbin.org/anything",
    "apiKey" => "API_KEY",
    "method" => "POST",
    "headers" => json_encode([ 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', ]),
    "body" => "foo=bar"
]); 


$headers = [ 'Content-Type: application/json', ];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($response);