Basic request

The simplest Web Scraping API call takes just two parameters: your api_key and the target url. The API responds with the raw HTML of the page, plus a few custom response headers that describe the request.

Endpoint

GET https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=<TARGET_URL>

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`api_key`	string	yes	Your Web Scraping API key
`url`	string	yes	Target URL to fetch

Custom response headers

The API adds a few WSA- prefixed response headers to every successful scrape.

Header	Description
`WSA-Client-Cookies`	JavaScript-generated cookies set after the target page loaded.
`WSA-Scraped-Headers`	Response headers returned by the scraped URL.
`WSA-Scraped-Resolved-Url`	Final URL after any redirects.
`WSA-Call-Credit-Usage`	Credits consumed by this request.
`WSA-Current-Credit-Usage`	Your total credit usage after this request.

Example request

curl "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://example.com"

import requests

r = requests.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1", params={
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "url": "https://example.com",
})
print(r.text)

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const url = 'https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?' + new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  url: 'https://example.com',
});
const res = await fetch(url);
console.log(await res.text());

Example response

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Example Domain</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
  <h1>Example Domain</h1>
  <p>This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents.</p>
  <p><a href="https://www.iana.org/domains/example">More information...</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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