Shifter Documentation
  • Getting Started
  • PROXIES
    • Rotating Residential Proxies
    • Static Residential Proxies
  • SCRAPING API
    • Web Scraping API
      • API Request
      • Basic Request
      • Rendering JavaScript
      • Custom Headers
      • Custom Cookies
      • Proxies
      • Geolocation
      • Sessions
      • Forcing Timeouts
      • Binary Files
      • Waiting for CSS
      • Screenshot
      • Extraction Rules
      • JSON Auto Parser
      • Javascript Instructions
      • Disable Stealth
      • POST Requests
      • PUT Requests
      • Conclusion
      • API Errors
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      • Google Product API
      • Google Scholar Cite API
      • Google Scholar Author API
      • Google Scholar Profiles API
      • Google Scholar API
      • Google Autocomplete API
      • Google Maps Photos API
      • Google Maps Reviews API
      • Google Reverse Image API
      • Google Events API
      • Google Finance API
      • Google Play API
      • Google Jobs API
      • Google Local Services API
      • Google Jobs Listing API
      • Google Maps API
      • Google Trends API
        • Google Trends Categories List
        • Geo Parameter Options List
    • API Response
  • Bing SERP API
    • Search API
    • API Parameters
    • Basic API Requests
  • Yandex SERP API
    • Search API
    • Basic API Requests
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      • API Parameters
      • Access the API
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  1. SCRAPING API

Web Scraping API

Introduction

Shifter Web Scraping API is a simple and effective REST API interface for scraping web pages at scale.

The API automatically takes care of tasks that would be dealt with programmatically such as:

  • Geolocations

  • IP Blocks

  • IP Rotations

  • Captchas

  • JavaScript Rendering

  • Residential Proxies

  • Data Center Proxies

  • Custom HTTP Headers

  • Custom Cookies

In this documentation, you will find detailed usage guides and code examples in different programming languages that will help you get up and running in the shortest time possible.

If the articles below leave any questions unanswered, please feel free to contact our technical support team.

Getting Started

To authorize your API call, append the api_key parameter to the URL:

https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR API KEY

After creating a Shifter account and ordering one of our Web Scraping API plans, the account dashboard will reveal the unique API access key you can use to authenticate with the API.

To do so, simply attach the api_key parameter to the API’s base URL and set it to your API access key.

Example:

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

Secure your key: To prevent unauthorized access to your Web Scraping API account, please make sure to store your API access key in a secure location and never include it in any public scripts or files.

In the following code examples, we use a dummy API key of XXXXXX. Please replace it with your real API key.

API Error Codes

If your request fails, Web Scraping API will return an error in JSON format.

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