API Endpoint Method

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:

import requests
payload = {'api_key': 'APIKEY', 'url': 'https://httpbin.org/ip'}
r = requests.get('http://api.scraperapi.com', params=payload)
print(r.text)
# Scrapy users can simply replace the urls in their start_urls and parse function
# ...other scrapy setup code
start_urls = ['http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=' + url]
def parse(self, response):
# ...your parsing logic here
yield scrapy.Request('http://api.scraperapi.com/?api_key=APIKEY&url=' + url, self.parse)

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:

import requests
payload = {'api_key': 'APIKEY', 'url':'https://httpbin.org/ip', 'render': 'true'}
r = requests.get('http://api.scraperapi.com', params=payload)
print(r.text)
# Scrapy users can simply replace the urls in their start_urls and parse function
# ...other scrapy setup code
start_urls = ['http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=APIKEY&url=' + url +'&render=true']
def parse(self, response):
# ...your parsing logic here
yield scrapy.Request('http://api.scraperapi.com/?api_key=APIKEY&url=' + url +'&render=true', self.parse)

To use two or more parameters, simply add them to the payload.