Push-Pull: Batch

Push-Pull is our recommended integration method for reliably handling large amounts of data.

Visit the Oxylabs GitHub repository for a complete working example of Push-Pull integration in Python.

Push-Pull is an asynchronous integration method. Upon job submission, you will promptly receive a JSON response containing all job details, including job parameters, ID, and URLs for result download and status checking. Once your job is processed, we will update you via a JSON payload sent to your server, if you provided a callback URL. Results remain available for retrieval for at least 24 hours after completion.

With Push-Pull, you can upload your results directly to your cloud storage (AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage).

If you prefer not to set up a service for incoming callback notifications, you can simply retrieve your results periodically (polling).

You can also explore how Push-Pull works using Postman.

Batch Query

Scraper APIs supports submitting up to 5,000 query or url parameter values within a single batch request.

Endpoint

POST https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch

The system will handle every query or url submitted as a separate job. If you provide a callback URL, you will get a separate call for each keyword. Otherwise, our initial response will contain job ids for all keywords. For example, if you sent 50 keywords, we will return 50 unique job ids.

IMPORTANT: With /batch endpoint, you can only submit lists of queryor urlparameter values (depending on the source you use). All other parameters should have singular values.

Input

You need to post query parameters as a JSON payload. Here is how you submit a batch job:

curl --user "user:pass1" \
'https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '@keywords.json'

import requests
import json
from pprint import pprint


# Get payload from file.
with open('keywords.json', 'r') as f:
    payload = json.loads(f.read())

response = requests.request(
    'POST',
    'https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch',
    auth=('user', 'pass1'),
    json=payload,
)

# Print prettified response.
pprint(response.json())

<?php

$paramsFile = file_get_contents(realpath("keywords.json"));
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $paramsFile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user" . ":" . "pass1");

$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

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

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

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

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main()
        {
            const string Username = "YOUR_USERNAME";
            const string Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD";


            var content = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\path\to\keywords.json");
                
            var client = new HttpClient();

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, new Uri("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch"));
            requestMessage.Content = new StringContent(content, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");


            var authenticationString = $"{Username}:{Password}";
            var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authenticationString));
            requestMessage.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedAuthenticationString);

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

            Console.WriteLine(contents);
        }
    }
}

package main

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

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

	content, err := os.ReadFile("keywords.json")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	client := &http.Client{}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
		"https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch",
		bytes.NewBuffer(content),
	)

	request.Header.Add("Content-type", "application/json")
	request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
	response, _ := client.Do(request)

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

import okhttp3.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;

public class Main implements Runnable {
    private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
    public static final String USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

    public void run() {
        Path filePath = Path.of("/path/to/keywords.json");
        String jsonContent = null;
        try {
            jsonContent = Files.readString(filePath);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }

        Authenticator authenticator = (route, response) -> {
            String credential = Credentials.basic(USERNAME, PASSWORD);

            return response
                    .request()
                    .newBuilder()
                    .header(AUTHORIZATION_HEADER, credential)
                    .build();
        };

        var client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .authenticator(authenticator)
                .build();

        var mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
        var body = RequestBody.create(jsonContent, mediaType);
        var request = new Request.Builder()
                .url("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch")
                .post(body)
                .build();

        try (var response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
            assert response.body() != null;
            System.out.println(response.body().string());
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            System.out.println("Error: " + exception.getMessage());
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Thread(new Main()).start();
    }
}

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
import fs from 'fs'

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

const payload = fs.readFileSync('keywords.json').toString();

const response = await fetch('https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/batch', {
  method: 'post',
  body: payload,
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
  }
});

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

You may notice that the code example above doesn't explain how the JSON payload should be formatted and points out to a pre-made JSON file. Below is the content of keywords.json file, containing multiple query parameter values:

{  
   "query":[  
      "adidas",
      "nike",
      "reebok"
   ],
   "source": "google_shopping_search",
   "domain": "com",
   "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url"
}

...and here is a keywords.json batch input file, containing multiple URLs:

{  
   "url":[  
      "https://example.com/url1.html",
      "https://example.com/url2.html",
      "https://example.com/url3.html"
   ],
   "source": "universal",
   "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url"
}

Output

The API will respond with a JSON object, containing the job information for each job created. The response will be similar to this:

{
  "queries": [
    {
      "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url",
      {...}
      "created_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
      "domain": "com",
      "id": "12345678900987654321",
      {...}
      "query": "adidas",
      "source": "google_shopping_search",
      {...}
          "rel": "results",
          "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/results",
          "method": "GET"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url",
      {...}
      "created_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
      "domain": "com",
      "id": "12345678901234567890",
      {...}
      "query": "nike",
      "source": "google_shopping_search",
      {...}
          "rel": "results",
          "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678901234567890/results",
          "method": "GET"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url",
      {...}
      "created_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
      "domain": "com",
      "id": "01234567899876543210",
	  {...}
      "query": "reebok",
      "source": "google_shopping_search",
	  {...}
          "rel": "results",
          "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/01234567899876543210/results",
          "method": "GET"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Data dictionary

For detailed descriptions of the job input parameters, please consult the table below or refer to the specific documentation pages for the scrapers you are interested in.

Key

Description

Type

created_at

The datetime the job was created at.

String

client_id

The numerical ID associated with the username of the client making the request.

String

client_notes

Submitted notes by the client when sending a job.

String

content_encoding

Add this parameter if you are downloading images. Learn more here.

String

id

The unique ID of the job.

String

statuses

The status code of the scraping or parsing job. You can see the status codes described here.

Integer

status

The status of the job. pending means the job is still being processed. done means we've completed the job. faulted means we came across errors while trying to complete the job and gave up at it.

String

subdomain

The subdomain of the website.

String

updated_at

The datetime the job was last updated at. For jobs that are finished (status is done or faulted), this datetime indicates when the job was finished.

String

links

The list of links, related to the provided input.

JSON Array

links:rel

The link type. self URL contains the metadata of the job, while results URL contains the job results.

String

links:href

The URL to the resource.

String

links:method

The HTTP method that should be used to interact with a given URL.

String

Callback

The callback is a POST request we send to your machine, informing that the data extraction task is completed and providing a URL to download scraped content. This means that you no don't need to check job status manually. Once the data is here, we will let you know, and all you need to do now is to retrieve it.

Input

# This is a simple Sanic web server with a route listening for callbacks on localhost:8080.
# It will print job results to stdout.
import requests
from pprint import pprint
from sanic import Sanic, response


AUTH_TUPLE = ('user', 'pass1')

app = Sanic()


# Define /job_listener endpoint that accepts POST requests.
@app.route('/job_listener', methods=['POST'])
async def job_listener(request):
    try:
        res = request.json
        links = res.get('_links', [])
        for link in links:
            if link['rel'] == 'results':
                # Sanic is async, but requests are synchronous, to fully take
                # advantage of Sanic, use aiohttp.
                res_response = requests.request(
                    method='GET',
                    url=link['href'],
                    auth=AUTH_TUPLE,
                )
                pprint(res_response.json())
                break
    except Exception as e:
        print("Listener exception: {}".format(e))
    return response.json(status=200, body={'status': 'ok'})


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080)

<?php
$stdout = fopen('php://stdout', 'w');

if (isset($_POST)) {
    $result = array_merge($_POST, (array) json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input')));

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/".$result['id'].'/results');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user" . ":" . "pass1");

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    fwrite($stdout, $result);

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

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;

namespace OxyApiWeb
{
    public class Callback
    {
        public Link[] _links { get; set; }
    }

    public class Link
    {
        public string rel { get; set; }
        public string href { get; set; }
    }

    public class Startup
    {
        private const string USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME";
        private const string PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
        {
            Configuration = configuration;

            client = new HttpClient();
        }

        public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }

        private HttpClient client;

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddControllers();
        }

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
        {
            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
            }

            app.UseRouting();

            app.UseAuthorization();

            app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
            {
                endpoints.MapPost("/job_listener", async context =>
                {
                    var callback = await System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeAsync<Callback>(context.Request.Body);

                    foreach (var link in callback._links)
                    {
                        if (link.rel != "results")
                        {
                            continue;
                        }

                        var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, new Uri(link.href));

                        var authenticationString = $"{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}";
                        var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authenticationString));
                        requestMessage.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedAuthenticationString);

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

                        Console.WriteLine(contents);

                    }

                    var okMessage = new Dictionary<string, string>()
                    {
                        { "message", "ok" }
                    };

                    await System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.SerializeAsync(context.Response.Body, okMessage);
                });
            });
        }
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
)

const Username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
const Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

type Callback struct {
	Links []Link `json:"_links"`
}

type Link struct {
	Href string `json:"href"`
	Method string `json:"method"`
	Rel string `json:"rel"`
}

func main() {
	echoServer := echo.New()
	client := &http.Client{}

	echoServer.POST("/job_listener", func(context echo.Context) error {
		callback := new(Callback)
		if err := context.Bind(callback); err != nil {
			return err
		}

		for _, link := range callback.Links {
			if link.Rel != "results" {
				continue
			}

			request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
				link.Href,
				nil,
			)

			request.Header.Add("Content-type", "application/json")
			request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
			response, _ := client.Do(request)

			responseText, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
			fmt.Println(string(responseText))
		}
		return context.JSON(http.StatusOK, map[string]string { "status": "ok" })
	})

	echoServer.Logger.Fatal(echoServer.Start(":8080"))
}

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;
import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;

public class Main implements Runnable {
    private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
    public static final String USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

    public void run() {
        HttpServer server = null;
        try {
            server = HttpServer.create(new InetSocketAddress("0.0.0.0", 8080), 0);
        } catch (IOException exception) {
            exception.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(1);
        }

        Authenticator authenticator = (route, response) -> {
            String credential = Credentials.basic(USERNAME, PASSWORD);