Basic Request
If your scraping request was successful, the API will respond with the raw HTML data of your target web page URL.
If you have enabled HTTP headers, your API response will also contain the HTTP headers sent along with your original API request.
Custom Response Headers
If you inspect your API response headers, you will notice some custom headers that will give you more details about the request you made.
WSA-Client-Cookies
Javascript-generated cookies after the target website is loaded
WSA-Scraped-Headers
The response headers of the scraped URL
WSA-Scraped-Resolved-Url
The final scraped URL (in case of redirects)
WSA-Call-Credit-Usage
The credit usage for a request
WSA-Current-Credit-Usage
Your total credit usage after you make the request
Basic Request examples
The API request below is the simplest invocation that you can make by specifying the URL only.
GET https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https://example.com
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