Generic Target

See how your requests would look with the universal source.

Scrape other websites (Home Depot, Idealo, Zillow, Yandex, Baidu, etc.) with our universal source. It accepts URLs along with additional parameters.

Request samples

In this example, the API will retrieve an e-commerce product page.

curl 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
--user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
        "source": "universal",
        "url": "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1"
    }'

import requests
from pprint import pprint


# Structure payload.
payload = {
    'source': 'universal',
    'url': 'https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1',
}

# Get response.
response = requests.request(
    'POST',
    'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
    auth=('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'),
    json=payload,
)

# Instead of response with job status and results url, this will return the
# JSON response with the result.
pprint(response.json())

const https = require("https");

const username = "USERNAME";
const password = "PASSWORD";
const body = {
    source: "universal",
    url: "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1",
};

const options = {
    hostname: "realtime.oxylabs.io",
    path: "/v1/queries",
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        Authorization:
            "Basic " + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString("base64"),
    },
};

const request = https.request(options, (response) => {
    let data = "";

    response.on("data", (chunk) => {
        data += chunk;
    });

    response.on("end", () => {
        const responseData = JSON.parse(data);
        console.log(JSON.stringify(responseData, null, 2));
    });
});

request.on("error", (error) => {
    console.error("Error:", error);
});

request.write(JSON.stringify(body));
request.end();

<?php

$params = array(
    'source' => 'universal',
    'url' => 'https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1',
);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME" . ":" . "PASSWORD");

$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);

package main

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

func main() {
	const Username = "USERNAME"
	const Password = "PASSWORD"

	payload := map[string]interface{}{
		"source": "universal",
		"url":    "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1",
	}

	jsonValue, _ := json.Marshal(payload)

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

	request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
	response, _ := client.Do(request)

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

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 = "USERNAME";
            const string Password = "PASSWORD";

            var parameters = new {
                source = "universal",
                url = "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1"
            };

            var client = new HttpClient();

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://realtime.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);
        }
    }
}

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

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

    public void run() {
        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
        jsonObject.put("source", "universal");
        jsonObject.put("url", "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/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)
                .readTimeout(180, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                .build();

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

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

        System.exit(0);
    }

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

Output example

{
    "results": [
        {
            "content": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\">
            CONTENT
            </html>",
            "created_at": "2024-07-01 11:35:14",
            "updated_at": "2024-07-01 11:35:15",
            "page": 1,
            "url": "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1",
            "job_id": "7213505428280329217",
            "status_code": 200
        }
    ]
}

We use synchronous Realtime integration method in our examples. If you would like to use Proxy Endpoint or asynchronous Push-Pull integration, refer to the integration methods section.

Request parameter values

Generic

Parameter

Description

Default Value

source

Sets the scraper.

universal

url

Direct URL (link) to any page.

callback_url

URL to your callback endpoint. More info.

- mandatory parameter

Additional

These are the parameters of our features.

Parameter

Description

Default Value

geo_location

Sets the proxy's geo location to retrieve data. Find supported locations here.

render

Enables JavaScript rendering when set to html. More info. NOTE: If you are observing low success rates or retrieve empty content, please try adding this parameter.

browser_instructions

Define your own browser instructions that are executed when rendering JavaScript. More info.

parse

Returns parsed data when set to true, as long as a dedicated parser exists for the submitted URL's page type.

false

parsing_instructions

Define your own parsing and data transformation logic that will be executed on an HTML scraping result. Read more: Parsing instructions examples.

context: headers

Pass your own headers. Learn more here.

context: cookies

Pass your own cookies. Learn more here.

context: session_id

If you want to use the same proxy with multiple requests, you can do so by using this parameter. Just set your session to any string you like, and we will assign a proxy to this ID, and keep it for up to 10 minutes. After that, if you make another request with the same session ID, a new proxy will be assigned to that particular session ID.

context: http_method

Set it to post if you would like to make a POST request to your target URL via E-commerce Scraper API. Learn more here.

get

user_agent_type

Device type and browser. The full list can be found here.

desktop

context: content

Base64-encoded POST request body. It is only useful if http_method is set to post.

content_encoding

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

base64

context: follow_redirects

Set to true to enable scraper to follow redirects. By default, redirects are followed up to a limit of 10 links, treating the entire chain as one scraping job.

true

context: successful_status_codes

Define a custom HTTP response code (or a few of them), upon which we should consider the scrape successful and return the content to you. May be useful if you want us to return the 503 error page or in some other non-standard cases.

All parameters

In this example, all available parameters are included (though not always necessary or compatible within the same request), to give you an idea on how to format your requests.

{
    "source": "universal", 
    "url": "https://example.com", 
    "user_agent_type": "desktop",
    "geo_location": "United States",
    "parse": true,
    "context": [
        {
            "key": "headers", 
            "value": {
                "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream", 
                "Custom-Header-Name": "custom header content"
            }
        }, 
        {
            "key": "cookies", 
            "value": [
                {
                    "key": "NID", 
                    "value": "1234567890"
                },
                {
                    "key": "1P JAR",
                    "value": "0987654321"
                }]
        },
        {
            "key": "follow_redirects",
            "value": true
        },
        {
            "key": "http_method", "value": "get"
        },
        {
            "key": "content",
            "value": "YmFzZTY0RW5jb2RlZFBPU1RCb2R5"
        },
        {
            "key": "successful_status_codes",
            "value": [808, 909]
        }]
}

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