Rendering JavaScript
Single-page apps and sites that hydrate content after the initial HTML load need a real browser to render fully. Pass render_js=1 to run the scrape through a headless browser and receive the fully rendered HTML.
Endpoint
Section titled “Endpoint” GET https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=<TARGET_URL>&render_js=1
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
api_key | string | yes | Your Web Scraping API key |
url | string | yes | Target URL to fetch |
render_js | integer | no | 0 (default) or 1. Set to 1 to render with a headless browser. |
Example request
Section titled “Example request”curl "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://example.com&render_js=1"import requests
r = requests.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1", params={ "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "url": "https://example.com", "render_js": 1,})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', render_js: '1',});const res = await fetch(url);console.log(await res.text());Example response
Section titled “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>