Full JSON Response

Have your response organised in a JSON response for easier integration with third party apps.

The default response body received from the BrowserAPI contains the plain HTML scraped from the targeted URL. This approach is ideal for HTML parsing, however it can be harder to integrate with third party apps that only accept JSON format.

If you want BrowserAPI to organise the response in a JSON format, all you have to do is to add json_response=1 to your request. The format of the response will then be:

Element
Type
Description

headers

Object

key : value pair of haders received from the server.

initial-status-code

int

Status code received from the server.

resolved-url

string

URL in case of redirects.

body

string

Scraped content.

type

string

Response type. Can be html , json or b64 (for files, images, PDFs etc.)

screenshot

string

base64 encrypted image.

cookies

Array

Array of cookies sent from the server.

xhr

Array

Array of XHR / Ajax requests sent by the browser durring scraping.

metadata

Object

Microdata and JSON-LD extracted from the HTML file.

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>&json_response=1

Full JSON Response Integration Examples

curl --request GET --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/&screenshot=1&json_response=1&extract_rules=%7B%22paragraphs%22%3A%7B%22selector%22%3A%20%22p%22%2C%22output%22%3A%22html%22%7D%7D"

Important! The url parameter has to be encoded.

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

Response Example
{
    "headers": {
        "access-control-allow-credentials": "true",
        "access-control-allow-origin": "*",
        "content-length": "9593",
        "content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
        "date": "Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:05:27 GMT",
        "server": "gunicorn/19.9.0"
    },
    "cost": 1,
    "initial-status-code": 200,
    "resolved-url": "https://httpbin.org/",
    "body": "{\"screenshot\":\"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/...",
    "cookies": [],
    "evaluate_results": "{\"paragraphs\":[\"<p>A simple HTTP Request &amp; Response Service.\\n                                        <br>\\n                                        <br>\\n                                        <b>Run locally: </b>\\n                                        <code>$ docker run -p 80:80 kennethreitz/httpbin</code>\\n                                    </p>\"]}",
    "xhr": [],
    "metadata": {
        "microdata": {
            "items": []
        },
        "json-ld": []
    }
}

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