Proxies

The Web Scraping API runs requests through a pool of millions of IP addresses across more than 195 geolocations. Pick the right pool for your target with proxy_type.

Endpoint

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

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
api_key	string	yes	Your Web Scraping API key
url	string	yes	Target URL to fetch
proxy_type	string	no	datacenter (default) or residential.

Datacenter vs residential

Datacenter proxies come from cloud providers, not ISPs. They are fast, cheap, and anonymous, but some targets pre-flag datacenter ranges. Shifter’s datacenter pool is private, keeping blacklisting low.

Residential proxies are real IPs assigned by ISPs to home users. They look like genuine consumer traffic and bypass most IP-based blocking, at a higher cost per request.

Example request

Datacenter

curl

curl "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://httpbin.org/get&proxy_type=datacenter"

Python

import requests

r = requests.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1", params={
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/get",
    "proxy_type": "datacenter",
})
print(r.json())

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',
  proxy_type: 'datacenter',
});
const res = await fetch(url);
console.log(await res.json());

Residential

curl

curl "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://httpbin.org/get&proxy_type=residential"

Python

import requests

r = requests.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1", params={
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/get",
    "proxy_type": "residential",
})
print(r.json())

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',
  proxy_type: 'residential',
});
const res = await fetch(url);
console.log(await res.json());

See also

• Geolocation
• Sessions