Generic Target

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

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"
    }'

Python

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())

Node.js

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();

HTTP

# The whole string you submit has to be URL-encoded.

https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries?source=universal&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsandbox.oxylabs.io%2Fproducts%2F1&access_token=12345abcde

PHP

<?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);

Golang

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))
}

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 = "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);
        }
    }
}

Java

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();
    }
}

JSON

{
    "source": "universal", 
    "url": "https://sandbox.oxylabs.io/products/1"
}

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]
        }]
}