Proxy Endpoint

If you have ever used regular proxies for data scraping, integrating the Proxy Endpoint delivery method will be a breeze. All you need to do is use our entry node as a proxy, authorize with Scraper API credentials, and ignore certificates. In cURL, it's -k or --insecure. Your data will reach you on an open connection.

Proxy Endpoint only works with the URL-based data sources, where full URL is provided. Therefore, it only accepts a handful of additional job parameters, which should be sent as headers.

The product is not designed to be used with headless browsers (e.g., Chromium, PhantomJS, Splash, etc.) and their drivers (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, etc.) directly.

Endpoint

GET realtime.oxylabs.io:60000

Input

Please see a request example below.

cURL

curl -k -x https://realtime.oxylabs.io:60000 \
-U 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
-H 'x-oxylabs-user-agent-type: desktop_chrome' \
-H 'x-oxylabs-geo-location: Germany' \
'https://www.example.com'

Python

import requests
from pprint import pprint

# Use your SERP API credentials here.
USERNAME, PASSWORD = 'YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_PASSWORD'

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

# To set a specific geo-location, user-agent or to render Javascript
# it is required to send parameters as request headers.
headers = {
    'x-oxylabs-user-agent-type': 'desktop_chrome',
    'x-oxylabs-geo-location': 'Germany',
    #'X-Oxylabs-Render': 'html', # Uncomment if you want to render JavaScript within the page.
}

response = requests.request(
    'GET',
    'https://www.example.com',
    headers = headers, # Pass the defined headers.
    verify=False,  # Accept our certificate.
    proxies=proxies,
)

# Print result page to stdout.
pprint(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}@realtime.oxylabs.io:60000`
);

// We recommend accepting our certificate instead of allowing insecure (http) traffic
process.env['NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED'] = 0;

const headers = {
  'x-oxylabs-user-agent-type': 'desktop_chrome',
  'x-oxylabs-geo-location': 'Germany',
}

const response = await fetch('https://www.example.com', {
  method: 'get',
  headers: headers,
  agent: agent,
});

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

PHP

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.example.com/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io:60000');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, 'YOUR_USERNAME' . ':' . 'YOUR_PASSWORD');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
// To set a specific geo-location, user-agent or to render Javascript
// it is required to send parameters as request headers.
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER  => array(
        'x-oxylabs-user-agent-type: desktop_chrome',
        'x-oxylabs-geo-location: Germany',
        //'X-Oxylabs-Render: html', // Uncomment if you want to render JavaScript within the page.
    )
));

$result = curl_exec($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)}

	// We recommend accepting our certificate instead of allowing insecure (http) traffic
	customTransport.TLSClientConfig = &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}

	client := &http.Client{Transport: customTransport}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
		"https://www.example.com",
		nil,
	)

	request.Header.Add("x-oxylabs-user-agent-type", "desktop_chrome")
	request.Header.Add("x-oxylabs-geo-location", "Germany")
	request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
	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://realtime.oxylabs.io:60000"),
                BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false,

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

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

            // We recommend accepting our certificate instead of allowing insecure (http) traffic
            httpClientHandler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Manual;
            httpClientHandler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback =
                (httpRequestMessage, cert, cetChain, policyErrors) =>
                {
                    return true;
                };


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

            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-oxylabs-user-agent-type", "desktop_chrome");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-oxylabs-geo-location", "Germany");

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://www.example.com");
            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("realtime.oxylabs.io", 60000), "USERNAME", "PASSWORD".toCharArray())
                .build();
        final HttpHost target = new HttpHost("https", "example.com", 443);
        final HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("https", "realtime.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("/");
            request.addHeader("x-oxylabs-user-agent-type","desktop_chrome");
            request.addHeader("x-oxylabs-geo-location","Germany");
            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;
            });
        }
    }
}

Output

Below you will find a sample response from https://example.com:

Sample response

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Example Domain</title>

    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <style type="text/css">
    body {
        background-color: #f0f0f2;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
        
    }
    div {
        width: 600px;
        margin: 5em auto;
        padding: 2em;
        background-color: #fdfdff;
        border-radius: 0.5em;
        box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.02);
    }
    a:link, a:visited {
        color: #38488f;
        text-decoration: none;
    }
    @media (max-width: 700px) {
        div {
            margin: 0 auto;
            width: auto;
        }
    }
    </style>    
</head>

<body>
<div>
    <h1>Example Domain</h1>
    <p>This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this
    domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission.</p>
    <p><a href="https://www.iana.org/domains/example">More information...</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Accepted parameters

When making your request, along with the URL, you can send us some job parameters that we will use while executing your job. The job parameters should be sent in your request headers - see an example here.

Here is the list of job parameters that you can send with Proxy Endpoint requests:

Parameter	Description
x-oxylabs-user-agent-type	There is no way to indicate a specific User-Agent, but you can let us know which user-agent type you would like us to use. A list of supported User-Agent types can be found here.
x-oxylabs-geo-location	In some cases, you may need to indicate the geographical location that the result should be adapted for. This parameter corresponds to the geo_location parameter, described separately in source-level documentation. Accepted values depend on the URL you would like us to scrape. Read more here.
x-oxylabs-render	JavaScript execution. Read more here.
x-oxylabs-parse	Setting it to 1 will return parsed data for the targets for which we have dedicated parsers. Read more here.