Making Requests

The easiest way to start is to send a simple query without custom options. We will add all standard headers on our end, pick the fastest proxy, and deliver you the response body.

curl -k -x https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000 \
-U 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
'https://ip.oxylabs.io/location'

If you are observing low success rates or retrieve empty content, please try adding additional "x-oxylabs-render: html" header with your request. More information about JavaScript rendering can be found here.

To utilize additional functionalities of Web Unblocker, such as setting up proxy location or reusing the same IP for a few consecutive requests, please send additional headers with the request.

For optimal website unblocking, Web Unblocker employs pre-defined cookies, headers, and sessions. Please refrain from sending any custom parameters commonly used for unblocking, as they may interfere with Web Unblocker’s ability to get quality data.

Here's the full list of supported functionalities and headers:

Additional functionalities

Parameter	Description	Link to read more
X-Oxylabs-Session-Id	If you would like to reuse the same IP for multiple requests, add a session ID which can be a random string of characters.	Session
X-Oxylabs-Geo-Location	To use an IP address from a specific location, specify a country or a city, for example, Germany. You can find supported geo-location values here.	Geo-location
Headers	If you want to send custom headers, use x-oxylabs-force-headers: 1 header when submitting your request.	Headers
Cookies	You can add your cookies, for example, Cookie: NID=1234567890, to your requests.	Cookies
X-Oxylabs-Status-Code	If your target site returns a non-standard status code with a successful response, you can send the response status code, and our system will not retry the request.	Custom status code
X-Oxylabs-Render	If you would like to render JavaScript, use html to get a rendered HTML or png to get a screenshot of the page.	JavaScript rendering

For more advanced code examples, refer to individual functionality pages linked in the table above.

Code examples

cURL

curl -k -x https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000 \
-U 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
'https://ip.oxylabs.io/headers'

Python

import requests

# Use your Web Unblocker credentials here.
USERNAME, PASSWORD = 'YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_PASSWORD'

# Define proxy dict.
proxies = {
  'http': f'http://{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@unblock.oxylabs.io:60000',
  'https': f'https://{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@unblock.oxylabs.io:60000',
}

response = requests.request(
    'GET',
    'https://ip.oxylabs.io/headers',
    verify=False,  # Ignore the SSL certificate
    proxies=proxies,
)

# Print result page to stdout
print(response.text)

# Save returned HTML to result.html file
with open('result.html', 'w') as f:
    f.write(response.text)

Node.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
import { HttpsProxyAgent } from 'https-proxy-agent';

const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';

const agent = new HttpsProxyAgent(
  `https://${username}:${password}@unblock.oxylabs.io:60000`
);

// Ignore the certificate
process.env['NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED'] = 0;

const response = await fetch('https://ip.oxylabs.io/headers', {
  method: 'get',
  agent: agent,
});

console.log(await response.text());

PHP

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://ip.oxylabs.io/headers');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, 'YOUR_USERNAME' . ':' . 'YOUR_PASSWORD');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);

Golang

package main

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	const Username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
	const Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

	proxyUrl, _ := url.Parse(
		fmt.Sprintf(
			"https://%s:[e-mail]:60000",
			Username,
			Password,
		),
	)
	customTransport := &http.Transport{Proxy: http.ProxyURL(proxyUrl)}

	// Ignore the certificate
	customTransport.TLSClientConfig = &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}

	client := &http.Client{Transport: customTransport}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
		"https://ip.oxylabs.io/headers",
		nil,
	)

	response, _ := client.Do(request)

	responseText, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(responseText))
}

C#

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var webProxy = new WebProxy
            {
                Address = new Uri("https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000"),
                BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false,

                Credentials = new NetworkCredential(
                userName: "YOUR_USERNAME",
                password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
                )
            };

            var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
            {
                Proxy = webProxy,
            };

            // Ignore the certificate
            httpClientHandler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Manual;
            httpClientHandler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback =
                (httpRequestMessage, cert, cetChain, policyErrors) =>
                {
                    return true;
                };


            var client = new HttpClient(handler: httpClientHandler, disposeHandler: true);

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://ip.oxylabs.io/headers");
            client.BaseAddress = baseUri;

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "");

            var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
            var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            Console.WriteLine(contents);
        }
    }
}

Java

package org.example;

import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.auth.CredentialsProviderBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClients;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.TrustAllStrategy;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.EntityUtils;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.message.StatusLine;
import org.apache.hc.core5.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;


public class Main {

    public static void main(final String[] args)throws Exception {
        final CredentialsProvider credsProvider = CredentialsProviderBuilder.create()
                .add(new AuthScope("unblock.oxylabs.io", 60000), "USERNAME", "PASSWORD".toCharArray())
                .build();
        final HttpHost target = new HttpHost("https", "ip.oxylabs.io", 443);
        final HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("https", "unblock.oxylabs.io", 60000);
        try (final CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
                .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
                .setProxy(proxy)
                // We recommend accepting our certificate instead of allowing insecure (http) traffic
                .setConnectionManager(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder.create()
                        .setSSLSocketFactory(SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder.create()
                                .setSslContext(SSLContextBuilder.create()
                                        .loadTrustMaterial(TrustAllStrategy.INSTANCE)
                                        .build())
                                .setHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
                                .build())
                        .build())
                .build()) {

            final RequestConfig config = RequestConfig.custom()
                    .build();
            final HttpGet request = new HttpGet("/headers");
            request.setConfig(config);

            System.out.println("Executing request " + request.getMethod() + " " + request.getUri() +
                    " via " + proxy + " headers: " + Arrays.toString(request.getHeaders()));

            httpclient.execute(target, request, response -> {
                System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
                System.out.println(request + "->" + new StatusLine(response));
                EntityUtils.consume(response.getEntity());
                return null;
            });
        }
    }
}