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, andurl
which contains the url you would like to scrape
You should format your requests to the API endpoint as follows:
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
params = {
:api_key => "APIKEY",
:url => "http://httpbin.org/ip"
}
uri = URI('http://api.scraperapi.com/')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)
website_content = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
print(website_content)
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:require 'net/http'
require 'json'
params = {
:api_key => "APIKEY",
:url => "http://httpbin.org/ip",
:render => true
}
uri = URI('http://api.scraperapi.com/')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)
website_content = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
print(website_content)
To use two or more parameters, simply separate them with the “&” sign.
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
params = {
:api_key => "APIKEY",
:url => "http://httpbin.org/ip",
:render => true,
:country_code => “us”
}
uri = URI('http://api.scraperapi.com/')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)
website_content = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
print(website_content)
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