Request Response Encoding and Content-Type via ScraperAPI in Ruby

Learn how ScraperAPI process all responses in UTF-8 encoding regardless of HTML tags, ensuring uniform data handling, compatibility, and easier debugging in Ruby.

Regardless of any tags in the HTML response body that might specify a different encoding (for example ISO-8859-2), ScraperAPI processes and delivers all content in UTF-8 encoding. This standardization offers several key advantages:

• 🌐Uniform Data Handling: UTF-8 encoding avoids issues related to special characters and symbols, making data processing smoother and reducing errors.

• 🔗Compatibility Across Systems: UTF-8 is widely supported across various platforms and programming languages, ensuring compatibility and reducing integration challenges.

• 🛠️Easier Debugging: Consistent encoding simplifies troubleshooting and debugging, as you can expect uniform data format in all your responses.

• ⚡Streamlined Development: Developers can work with a single encoding format, reducing the need for additional encoding/decoding steps and simplifying the development process.

You only need to refer to the Content-Type header in the response to verify this:

Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8