Disable stealth

The Web Scraping API enables a stealth plugin by default when rendering JavaScript. Set disable_stealth=1 to turn it off, for example when the plugin interferes with how a specific target behaves.

Endpoint

GET https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=<TARGET_URL>&disable_stealth=1&render_js=1

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
api_key	string	yes	Your Web Scraping API key
url	string	yes	Target URL to fetch
disable_stealth	integer	no	1 disables the stealth plugin, 0 keeps it on.
render_js	integer	yes	Must be 1. Stealth only applies when rendering JavaScript.

Example request

curl

curl "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&disable_stealth=1&render_js=1"

Python

import requests

r = requests.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1", params={
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/get",
    "disable_stealth": 1,
    "render_js": 1,
})
print(r.text)

Node.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const url = 'https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?' + new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  url: 'https://httpbin.org/get',
  disable_stealth: '1',
  render_js: '1',
});
const res = await fetch(url);
console.log(await res.text());

Example response

{
  "args": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.0 Safari/537.36"
  },
  "origin": "196.243.24.17",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}

See also

• Rendering JavaScript
• API request