POST Requests

(BETA) Now it is possible to scrape forms or API endpoints directly. You can do this by sending a POST request to Shifter's Web Scraping API with your api_key and URL parameter.

In the right-side box, you will find an example request used to scrape the URL https://httpbin.org/post.

POST Requests examples

POST https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https://httpbin.org/post

⇡ Input

cURL

curl --request POST --url "https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost" --data "{
  "foo": "bar"
}"

NodeJS

const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "POST",
  "hostname": "scrape.shifter.io",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost",
  "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.write("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}");
req.end();

Python

import http.client

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

payload = "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"

conn.request("POST", "/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost", payload)

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=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}",
]);

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

curl_close($curl);

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

Golang

package main

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

func main() {

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

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	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.post("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost")
  .body("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")
  .asString();

.NET

var client = new RestClient("https://scrape.shifter.io/v1?api_key=api_key&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddParameter("undefined", "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
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=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request.body = "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"

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

⇣ Output

{
    "args": {},
    "data": "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}",
    "files": {},
    "form": {},
    "headers": {
        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
        "Content-Length": "13",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Host": "httpbin.org",
        "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36",
        "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6267eb77-3bbe26043611b895363f145a"
    },
    "json": {
        "foo": "bar"
    },
    "origin": "185.162.168.36",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/post"
}