PUT requests

Forward a PUT request to the target URL by sending your body to the Web Scraping API with api_key and url as query parameters. Use this to drive REST endpoints that require PUT.

Note

This feature is in beta.

Endpoint

PUT 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 PUT to

The request body is forwarded verbatim to the target URL.

Example request

curl

curl -X PUT "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fput" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"foo":"bar"}'

Python

import requests

r = requests.put(
    "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1",
    params={"api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "url": "https://httpbin.org/put"},
    json={"foo": "bar"},
)
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/put',
});
const res = await fetch(url, {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ foo: 'bar' }),
});
console.log(await res.json());

Example response

{
  "args": {},
  "data": "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}",
  "headers": {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Host": "httpbin.org"
  },
  "json": { "foo": "bar" },
  "origin": "185.162.168.36",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/put"
}

See also

• POST requests
• Basic request