POST
/
crawler
/
jobs
cURL
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.usescraper.com/crawler/jobs \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "urls": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "exclude_globs": [],
  "exclude_elements": "nav, header, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, [role=\"alert\"], [role=\"banner\"], [role=\"dialog\"], [role=\"alertdialog\"], [role=\"region\"][aria-label*=\"skip\" i], [aria-modal=\"true\"]",
  "output_format": "text",
  "output_expiry": 604800,
  "min_length": 50,
  "webhook_url": "<string>",
  "page_limit": 10000,
  "force_crawling_mode": "sitemap",
  "block_resources": true,
  "include_linked_files": false
}'
{
    "id": "7YEGS3M8Q2JD6TNMEJB8B6EKVS",
    "urls": [
        "https://example.com"
    ],
    "createdAt": 1699964378397,
    "status": "starting",
    "sitemapPageCount": 0,
    "progress": {
        "scraped": 0,
        "discarded": 0,
        "failed": 0
    },
    "costCents": 0,
    "webhookFails": []
}
Crawler jobs may take several minutes to complete. Use the Get job endpoint to check the status of a job, and fetch the results from the Get job data endpoint when the job is complete. 
{
    "id": "7YEGS3M8Q2JD6TNMEJB8B6EKVS",
    "urls": [
        "https://example.com"
    ],
    "createdAt": 1699964378397,
    "status": "starting",
    "sitemapPageCount": 0,
    "progress": {
        "scraped": 0,
        "discarded": 0,
        "failed": 0
    },
    "costCents": 0,
    "webhookFails": []
}

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

Crawler parameters

The body is of type object.

Response

201

The created job object. Job URL will be provided in Location header.