Rendering Javascript

If you are crawling a page that requires you to render the javascript on the page to scrape the data you need, then we can fetch these pages using a headless browser. To render javascript, simply set render=true and we will use a headless Google Chrome instance to fetch the page. This feature is available on all plans.

  • API 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);
  • PROXY MODE

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://httpbin.org/ip");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://scraperapi.render=true:APIKEY@proxy-server.scraperapi.com:8001");
curl_setopt($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($ch);
var_dump($response);
  • SDK Method

# remember to install the library: composer require scraperapi/sdk
<?php
$client = new ScraperAPIClient("APIKEY");
$result = $client->get("http://httpbin.org/ip", ["render" => true])->raw_body;
print($result);

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