Push-Pull: Single Job

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

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.

Single Job

Endpoint

This endpoint accepts only a single query or URL value.

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

Input

Provide the job parameters in a JSON payload as shown in the examples below. Python and PHP examples include comments for clarity.

cURL

curl --user "user:pass1" \
'https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"source": "ENTER_SOURCE_HERE", "url": "https://www.example.com", "geo_location": "United States", "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url", "storage_type": "s3", "storage_url": "s3://your.storage.bucket.url"}'

Python

import requests
from pprint import pprint


# Structure payload.
payload = {
    "source": "ENTER_SOURCE_HERE", # Source you choose e.g. "google"
    "url": "https://www.example.com", # Check speficic source if you should use "url" or "query"
    "geo_location": "United States", # Some sources accept zip-code or cooprdinates
    #"render" : "html", # Uncomment you want to render JavaScript within the page
    #"render" : "png", # Uncomment if you want to take a screenshot of a scraped web page
    #"parse" : true, # Check what sources support parsed data
    #"callback_url": "https://your.callback.url", #required if using callback listener
    "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url",
    "storage_type": "s3", 
    "storage_url": "s3://your.storage.bucket.url"
}

# Get response.
response = requests.request(
    'POST',
    'https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
    auth=('YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_PASSWORD'), #Your credentials go here
    json=payload,
)

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

PHP

<?php

$params = array(
    'source' => 'ENTER_SOURCE_HERE', //Source you choose e.g. "google"
    'url' => 'https://www.example.com', // Check speficic source if you should use "url" or "query"
    'geo_location' => 'United States', //Some sources accept zip-code or cooprdinates
    //'render' : 'html', // Uncomment you want to render JavaScript within the page
    //'render' : 'png', // Uncomment if you want to take a screenshot of a scraped web page
    //'parse' : TRUE, // Check what sources support parsed data
    //'callback_url' => 'https://your.callback.url', //required if using callback listener
    'callback_url': 'https://your.callback.url',
    'storage_type' => 's3',
    'storage_url' => 's3://your.storage.bucket.url'
);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "YOUR_USERNAME" . ":" . "YOUR_PASSWORD"); //Your credentials go here

$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);
?>

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

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

            var parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>()
            {
                { "source", "ENTER_SOURCE_HERE" },
                { "url", "https://example.com" },
                { "geo_location", "United States" },
                { "callback_url", "https://your.callback.url" },
            };


            var client = new HttpClient();

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

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "/v1/queries");
            requestMessage.Content = JsonContent.Create(parameters);

            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);
        }
    }
}

Golang

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
)

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

	payload := map[string]string{
		"source": "ENTER_SOURCE_HERE",
		"url": "https://example.com",
		"geo_location": "United States",
		"callback_url": "https://your.callback.url",
	}

	jsonValue, _ := json.Marshal(payload)

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

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

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

Java

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;
import org.json.JSONObject;

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() {
        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
        jsonObject.put("source", "ENTER_SOURCE_HERE");
        jsonObject.put("url", "https://example.com");
        jsonObject.put("geo_location", "United States");
        jsonObject.put("callback_url", "https://your.callback.url");

        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(jsonObject.toString(), mediaType);
        var request = new Request.Builder()
                .url("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries")
                .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();
    }
}

Node.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
const body = {
  source: 'ENTER_SOURCE_HERE',
  url: 'https://www.example.com',
  geo_location: 'United States',
  callback_url: 'https://your.callback.url',
};
const response = await fetch('https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries', {
  method: 'post',
  body: JSON.stringify(body),
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
  }
});

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

Output

The API will respond with a JSON containing the job information, similar to this:

{
  "callback_url": "https://your.callback.url",
  "client_id": 5,
  "context": [
    {
      "key": "results_language",
      "value": null
    },
    {
      "key": "safe_search",
      "value": null
    },
    {
      "key": "tbm",
      "value": null
    },
    {
      "key": "cr",
      "value": null
    },
    {
      "key": "filter",
      "value": null
    }
  ],
  "created_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
  "domain": "com",
  "geo_location": "United States",
  "id": "12345678900987654321",
  "limit": 10,
  "locale": null,
  "pages": 1,
  "parse": false,
  "render": null,
  "url": "https://www.example.com",
  "source": "universal",
  "start_page": 1,
  "status": "pending",
  "storage_type": "s3",
  "storage_url": "YOUR_BUCKET_NAME/12345678900987654321.json",
  "subdomain": "www",
  "updated_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
  "user_agent_type": "desktop",
  "_links": [
    {
      "rel": "self",
      "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321",
      "method": "GET"
    },
    {
      "rel": "results",
      "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/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

Python

# 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

<?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);
}
?>

C#

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);
                });
            });
        }
    }
}

Golang

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"))
}

Java

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);

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

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

        server.createContext("/job_listener", exchange -> {
            var requestBody = IOUtils.toString(exchange.getRequestBody(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
            JSONObject requestJson = new JSONObject(requestBody);
            JSONArray links = requestJson.getJSONArray("_links");
            for (var link : links.toList()) {
                var linkMap = (Map<?, ?>)link;
                if (!Objects.equals(linkMap.get("rel"), "results")) {
                    continue;
                }

                var request = new Request.Builder()
                        .url((String) linkMap.get("href"))
                        .get()
                        .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());
                }
            }

            var responseJson = new JSONObject();
            responseJson.put("status", "ok");
            exchange.sendResponseHeaders(200, responseJson.toString().length());

            OutputStream responseBody = exchange.getResponseBody();
            responseBody.write(responseJson.toString().getBytes());
            responseBody.flush();
            responseBody.close();

            exchange.close();
        });
        server.setExecutor(null);
        server.start();
    }

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

Node.js

import express from 'express'
import fetch from 'node-fetch';

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

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

app.post('/job_listener', async(request, response) => {
  for (const index in request.body._links) {
    const link = request.body._links[index];
    if (link.rel !== 'results') {
      continue;
    }

    const jobResultResponse = await fetch(link.href, {
      method: 'get',
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
      }
    });

    console.log(await jobResultResponse.json());
  }

  response.send({status: 'ok'});
});

app.listen(8080);

Output

{  
   "created_at":"2019-10-01 00:00:01",
   "updated_at":"2019-10-01 00:00:15",
   "locale":null,
   "client_id":163,
   "user_agent_type":"desktop",
   "source":"google_shopping_search",
   "pages":1,
   "subdomain":"www",
   "status":"done",
   "start_page":1,
   "parse":0,
   "render":null,
   "priority":0,
   "ttl":0,
   "origin":"api",
   "persist":true,
   "id":"12345678900987654321",
   "callback_url":"http://your.callback.url/",
   "query":"adidas",
   "domain":"com",
   "limit":10,
   "geo_location":null,
   {...}
   "_links":[
      {  
         "href":"https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321",
         "method":"GET",
         "rel":"self"
      },
      {  
         "href":"https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/results",
         "method":"GET",
         "rel":"results"
      }
   ],
}

Check Job Status

If you provided a valid callback URL when submitting your job, we will notify you upon completion by sending a JSON payload to the specified callback URL. This payload will indicate that the job has been completed and its status set to done.

However, if you submitted a job without using callback service, you can check the job status manually. Retrieve the URL from the href field in the rel:self section of the response message received after job submission. The URL for checking the job status will resemble the following: http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321. Querying this URL will return the job information, including its current status.

Endpoint

GET https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/{id}

Input

cURL

curl --user "user:pass1" \
'http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321'

Python

import requests
from pprint import pprint

# Get response from stats endpoint.
response = requests.request(
    method='GET',