Custom Headers

If you would like to add custom/additional headers (user agents, cookies, etc.), simply add them as parameters to the request, with the “wsa-” prefix.

Only use this feature to get customized results, do not use this feature to avoid blocks. Shifter's Scraping API has a powerful internal engine that takes care of everything for you.

On this page, you will find an example request used to scrape the URL https://httpbin.org/headers, which will mirror the headers sent.

Custom Headers example

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

⇡ Input

cURL

curl --request GET --url "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders" --header "Wsa-My-header: test" --header "Wsa-User-Agent: potato"

NodeJS

const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "scrape.shifter.io",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders",
  "headers": {
    "Wsa-My-header": "test",
    "Wsa-User-Agent": "potato"
  }
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  const chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function () {
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("scrape.shifter.io")

headers = {
    'Wsa-My-header': "test",
    'Wsa-User-Agent': "potato"
    }

conn.request("GET", "/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Wsa-My-header: test",
    "Wsa-User-Agent: potato"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

Golang

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

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

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Wsa-My-header", "test")
	req.Header.Add("Wsa-User-Agent", "potato")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

Java

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders")
  .header("Wsa-My-header", "test")
  .header("Wsa-User-Agent", "potato")
  .asString();

.NET

var client = new RestClient("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Wsa-My-header", "test");
request.AddHeader("Wsa-User-Agent", "potato");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fheaders")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Wsa-My-header"] = 'test'
request["Wsa-User-Agent"] = 'potato'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

⇣ Output

{
    "headers": {
        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
        "Host": "httpbin.org",
        "My-Header": "test",
        "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
        "User-Agent": "potato",
        "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6267c064-44fa9993017cfcc32e41dfc1"
    }
}