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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

## Replace POST with PUT to send a PUT request instead
params = {
:api_key => "APIKEY",
:url => "http://httpbin.org/anything"
}

uri = URI('http://api.scraperapi.com/')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

website_content = Net::HTTP.post(uri, { "foo" => "bar"}.to_json, "Content-Type" => "application/json")
print(website_content.body)

## For form data
params = {
:api_key => "APIKEY",
:url => "http://httpbin.org/anything"
}

uri = URI('http://api.scraperapi.com/')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
req.set_form_data('foo' => 'bar')

website_content = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) {|http|
http.request(req)
}

print(website_content.body)

• PROXY MODE

require 'httparty'
HTTParty::Basement.default_options.update(verify: false)
query = {'foo': 'bar'}

## POST/PUT Request
headers = {'Accept':'application/json', 'Content-Type':'application/json'}

response = HTTParty.post('http://httpbin.org/anything', {
  http_proxyaddr: "proxy-server.scraperapi.com",
  http_proxyport: "8001",
  http_proxyuser: "scraperapi",
  http_proxypass: "APIKEY",
  body: query.to_json,
  headers: headers
}, )
results = response.body
puts results 

## Form POST Request
headers = {'Accept':'application/json'}

response = HTTParty.post('http://httpbin.org/anything', {
  http_proxyaddr: "proxy-server.scraperapi.com",
  http_proxyport: "8001",
  http_proxyuser: "scraperapi",
  http_proxypass: "APIKEY",
  body: query.to_json,
  headers: headers
}, )
results = response.body
puts results 

• SDK Method

# remember to install the library: gem install scraperapi
require "scraper_api"
client = ScraperAPI::Client.new("APIKEY")

#POST/PUT Requests
postResult = client.post("http://httpbin.org/ip", "foo": "bar").raw_body
putResult = client.put("http://httpbin.org/ip", "foo": "bar").raw_body

puts postResult
puts putResult

#Form Post Requests
formResult = client.post("http://httpbin.org/anything", body: {"foo": "bar"}, headers: {"Accept":"application/json"}).raw_body
puts formResult