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Forcing Timeouts

BrowserAPI allows you to adjust the timeout value in order to obtain lazy loaded content.

When dealing with websites that require longer load time for the full DOM, BrowserAPI's default timeout value may result in an error caused by the fact that the page didn't had enough time to finish loading.

In that particular case, you may want to tweak the load time by passing the timeout=$value 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>&timeout=$value

Timeouts Integration Examples

curl --request GET --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&timeout=200"
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%2Fget&timeout=200",
  "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,
    "timeout":200
}

response = requests.get(SCRAPER_URL, params=PARAMS)

print(response)
<?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%2Fget&timeout=200",
  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%2Fget&timeout=200"

	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%2Fget&timeout=200")
  .asString();
var client = new RestClient("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fget&timeout=200");
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%2Fget&timeout=200")

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_body

Important! The url parameter has to be encoded.

( i.e. &url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webscrapingapi.com%2F )

Response Example
{
    "status": "Failure",
    "status_code": 422,
    "created_at": "2022-04-26T11:57:23.242Z",
    "processed_at": "2022-04-26T11:57:23.739Z",
    "time_taken": {
        "total": 0.701,
        "scraping": 0.202,
        "setup_worker": 0.403
    },
    "error": "The target page took more than 0.2 seconds to load, the website might be down. Retry the request or increase the value of 'timeout' parameter.",
    "page_content": null
}
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