Device Type
Toggle between devices and specific results for the websites you are scraping.
Websites which prioritise mobile devices usually offer different layouts, depending on the device that reaches them. This means that the result is usually different if you scrape the website with a mobile device, a tablet or a desktop computer.
With BrowserAPI you can toggle between each of these devices and always get the desired result. The default scraping device is desktop, however you can always change it to mobile or tablet by simply using the device parameter.
Your full GET request should then be sent to the following address:
https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=<TARGETED_URL>&device_type=<DESKTOP / TABLET / MOBILE>Window Sizing
desktop
> 1024
> 640
tablet
786
1024
mobile
<= 812
375 - 1023
Device type Integration Examples
curl --request GET --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/&device=mobile"const http = require("https");
const options = {
"method": "GET",
"hostname": "api.webscrapingapi.com",
"port": null,
"path": "/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org&device=mobile",
"headers": {}
};
const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
const chunks = [];
res.on("data", function (chunk) {
chunks.push(chunk);
});
res.on("end", function () {
const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
console.log(body.toString());
});
});
req.end();import requests
API_KEY = '<YOUR_API_KEY>'
SCRAPER_URL = 'https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1'
TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/'
PARAMS = {
"api_key":API_KEY,
"url": TARGET_URL,
"device":"mobile",
"render_js":1
}
response = requests.get(SCRAPER_URL, params=PARAMS)
print(response.text)<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org&device=mobile",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io/ioutil"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org&device=mobile"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(res)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org&device=mobile")
.asString();var client = new RestClient("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org&device=mobile");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
url = URI("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org&device=mobile")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyImportant! The url parameter has to be encoded.
( i.e. &url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webscrapingapi.com%2F )
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