POST
/
scraper
/
scrape
cURL
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.usescraper.com/scraper/scrape \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "url": "<string>",
  "format": "text",
  "extract_object": {},
  "advanced_proxy": false
}'
{
  "text": "Webpage content will be here...",
  "meta": {
    "url": "https://usescraper.com",
    "fetchedUrl": "https://usescraper.com",
    "fetchedUrlStatusCode": 200,
    "meta": {
      "title": "UseScraper - Web Crawler & Scraper API",
      "description": {}
    }
  },
  "status": "scraped"
}

Scrape any webpage URL and get text, html or markdown. A Chrome browser with Javascript enabled is used to ensure every webpage can be scraped. Set advanced_proxy to true to enable our advanced scraping proxy which will cicumvent most bot detection and blocking systems (using advanced proxy does not currently cost any extra).

{
  "text": "Webpage content will be here...",
  "meta": {
    "url": "https://usescraper.com",
    "fetchedUrl": "https://usescraper.com",
    "fetchedUrlStatusCode": 200,
    "meta": {
      "title": "UseScraper - Web Crawler & Scraper API",
      "description": {}
    }
  },
  "status": "scraped"
}

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

URL to scrape & scraping options

The body is of type object.

Response

200
application/json

Scraped content

The response is of type object.