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_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": "google_search",
   "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_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_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_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

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

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);

            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();
    }
}

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

import requests
from pprint import pprint

# Get response from stats endpoint.
response = requests.request(
    method='GET',
    url='http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321',
    auth=('user', 'pass1'),
)

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

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user" . ":" . "pass1");

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

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

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 JobId = "12345678900987654321";
            const string Username = "YOUR_USERNAME";
            const string Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

            var client = new HttpClient();

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

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, $"/v1/queries/{JobId}");

            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);
        }
    }
}

package main

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

func main() {
	const JobId = "12345678900987654321"
	const Username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
	const Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

	client := &http.Client{}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
		fmt.Sprintf("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/%s", JobId),
		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))
}

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;

public class Main implements Runnable {
    private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
    private static final String JOB_ID = "12345678900987654321";
    public static final String USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

    public void run() {
        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 request = new Request.Builder()
                .url(String.format("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/%s", JOB_ID))
                .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());
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

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

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const jobId = '12345678900987654321';
const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
const response = await fetch(`https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/${jobId}`, {
  method: 'get',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
  }
});

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

Output

Upon completion of the job, the API will respond with query information in JSON format. The job status will be changed to done, indicating that the job is finished. You can retrieve the content by querying one of the provided links. Additionally, the response will include the timestamp of when the job was last updated, allowing you to track its processing time.

{
    "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": null,
    "id": "7173957294344910849",
    "limit": 10,
    "locale": null,
    "pages": 1,
    "parse": false,
    "render": null,
    "query": "adidas",
    "source": "google_search",
    "start_page": 1,
    "status": "done",
    "subdomain": "www",
    "updated_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:15",
    "user_agent_type": "desktop",
    "_links": [
        {
            "rel": "self",
            "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/7173957294344910849",
            "method": "GET"
        },
        {
            "rel": "results",
            "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/7173957294344910849/results",
            "method": "GET"
        },
        {
            "rel": "results-html",
            "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/7173957294344910849/results?type=raw",
            "method": "GET"
        },
        {
            "rel": "results-parsed",
            "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/7173957294344910849/results?type=parsed",
            "method": "GET"
        },
        {
            "rel": "results-parsed",
            "href": "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/7173957294344910849/results?type=png",
            "method": "GET"
        }
    ]
}

Status values

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
`pending`	The job is still being processed and has not been completed.
`done`	The job is completed. You can retrieve the result by querying the URL provided in the `href` field under the `rel:results` section, for example: `http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/results`.
`faulted`	There was an issue with the job, and we couldn't complete it. You are not charged for any `faulted` jobs.

pending

The job is still being processed and has not been completed.

done

The job is completed. You can retrieve the result by querying the URL provided in the href field under the rel:results section, for example: http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/results.

faulted

There was an issue with the job, and we couldn't complete it. You are not charged for any faulted jobs.

Retrieve Job Content

Once the job is ready to be retrieved, you can use the URL provided in the response under the rel:results section. The URL will look like this: http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/7173957294344910849/results.

Endpoints

You can retrieve different results types by using the following endpoints:

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

GET https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/{job_id}/results?type=raw

GET https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/{job_id}/results?type=parsed

GET https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/{job_id}/results?type=png

Input

Below are code examples demonstrating how to use the /results endpoint:

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

import requests
from pprint import pprint

# Get response from stats endpoint.
response = requests.request(
    method='GET',
    url='http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/results',
    auth=('user', 'pass1'),
)

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

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/12345678900987654321/results");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user" . ":" . "pass1");

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

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

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

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main()
        {
            const string JobId = "12345678900987654321";
            const string Username = "YOUR_USERNAME";
            const string Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

            var client = new HttpClient();

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

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, $"/v1/queries/{JobId}/results");

            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);
        }
    }
}

package main

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

func main() {
	const JobId = "12345678900987654321"
	const Username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
	const Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

	client := &http.Client{}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
		fmt.Sprintf("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/%s/results", JobId),
		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))
}

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;

public class Main implements Runnable {
    private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
    private static final String JOB_ID = "12345678900987654321";
    public static final String USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

    public void run() {
        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 request = new Request.Builder()
                .url(String.format("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/%s/results", JOB_ID))
                .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());
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

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

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const jobId = '12345678900987654321';
const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
const response = await fetch(`https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/${jobId}/results`, {
  method: 'get',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
  }
});

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

Output

This table explains the default and other available result types based on the headers included in the payload of the API request.

Render parameter Parse parameter Default output Available output

Render parameter	Parse parameter	Default output	Available output
x	x	html	html
`html`	x	html	html
`png`	x	png	html, png
x	`true`	json	html, json
`html`	`true`	json	html, json
`png`	`true`	png	html, json, png

html

html

html

png

png

html, png

true

json

html, json

html

true

json

html, json

png

true

png

html, json, png

Below is a sample response of the /results endpoint:

{
  "results": [
    {
      "content": "<!doctype html><html>
        CONTENT      
      </html>",
      "created_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
      "updated_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:15",
      "page": 1,
      "url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=adidas&hl=en&gl=US",
      "job_id": "12345678900987654321",
      "status_code": 200
    }
  ]
}

The results can be automatically retrieved without periodically checking job status by setting up Callback service. To do that, specify the URL of a server that is able to accept incoming HTTP(S) requests while submitting a job. When our system completes the job, it will POST a JSON payload to the provided URL, and the Callback service will download the results as described in the Callback implementation example.

Get Notifier IP Address List

You may want to whitelist the IPs sending you callback messages or get the list of these IPs for other purposes. You can do this by GETting this endpoint:

Endpoint

GET https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips

Input

The code examples below show how you can access the /callbacker_ips endpoint:

curl --user "user:pass1" \
'https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips'

import requests
from pprint import pprint

# Get response from the callback IPs endpoint.
response = requests.request(
    method='GET',
    url='https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips',
    auth=('user', 'pass1'),
)

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

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user" . ":" . "pass1");

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

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

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

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

            var client = new HttpClient();

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

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "/v1/info/callbacker_ips");

            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);
        }
    }
}

package main

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

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

	client := &http.Client{}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
		"https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips",
		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))
}

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;

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() {
        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 request = new Request.Builder()
                .url("https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips")
                .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());
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

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

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
const response = await fetch('https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/info/callbacker_ips', {
  method: 'get',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
  }
});

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

Output

The API will return the list of IPs making callback requests to your system:

{
    "ips": [
        "x.x.x.x",
        "y.y.y.y"
    ]
}

Scheduler

Scheduler is a service that you can use to schedule recurring scraping jobs.

It extends the functionality of Push-Pull integration and is best used together with the Cloud integration functionality. Read more about Scheduler feature here.

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