# Geolocation

Using the API’s country HTTP GET parameter you can choose a specific country by its 2-letter country code for your scraping request. Please find an example API request on this page, which specifies the US (for the United States) as a proxy location using the default datacenter proxies.

Some plans don’t have access to geolocation targeting, a random country data center or residential IP is assigned to the request.

More information regarding each plan can be found on our [pricing page](https://shifter.io/pricing?product=scraping-api).

### Datacenter Proxies Supported Countries

For data center proxies, the API currently supports a total of 10 global geolocations: United States (**us**), Canada (**ca**), United Kingdom (**gb**), Germany (**de**), France (**fr**), Spain (**es**), Mexico (**mx**), Japan (**jp**), China (**cn**), and Australia (**au**).

### Residential Proxies Supported Countries

For premium (residential) proxies, the API currently supports a total of 12 global geolocations. The list includes the United Kingdom (**gb**), United States of America (**us**), Canada (**ca**), Germany (**de**), France (**fr**), Japan (**jp**), China (**cn**), Australia (**au**), Spain (**es**), Brazil (**br**), India (**in**) & Mexico (**mx**).

Access to 195 countries is available to Enterprise customers upon request.

### Geolocation examples

Geolocation can be specified with the country parameter.

> **`GET https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter`** 

**⇡ Input**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```url
curl --request GET --url "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

```javascript
const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "scrape.shifter.io",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter",
  "headers": {}
};

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());
  });
});

req.end();
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import http.client

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

conn.request("GET", "/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter")

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

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

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

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

curl_close($curl);

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

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Golang" %}

```go
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter"

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

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

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

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

}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter")
  .asString();
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title=".NET" %}

```
var client = new RestClient("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&country=us&proxy_type=datacenter")

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)

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

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**⇣ Output**

```
{
    "args": {},
    "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",
        "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.0 Safari/537.36",
        "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6267dc58-3027016b3e1d2f936ac7a94f"
    },
    "origin": "192.3.214.245",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}
```