# Sessions

Sessions are the way websites recognise multiple requests coming from the same address. In WebSrapingAPI, you can create and use a new session in order to scrape multiple pages of the same website and reuse the same proxy (IP Address) for each request.

The value of the `session` parameter can be any integer and is used to identify the new session created by you. This being said, to create a new session, simply add the `session=<YOUR_SESSION_ID` to the request and then reuse this parameter and its value on upcoming requests.

{% hint style="warning" %}
Residential proxies switch the IP address once every 5 minutes. Hence, sessions set on this kind of proxy will expire in a maximum of 5 minutes after the last usage.
{% endhint %}

Your full **GET** request should then be sent to the following address:

{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```
https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=<TARGETED_URL>&session=<YOUR_SESSION_ID>
```

{% endcode %}

### Sessions Integration Examples

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```bash
curl --request GET --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100"
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```javascript
const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "api.webscrapingapi.com",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100",
  "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();
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```python
import requests

API_KEY = '<YOUR_API_KEY>'
SCRAPER_URL = 'https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1'

TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/get'

PARAMS = {
    "api_key":API_KEY,
    "url": TARGET_URL,
    "country":"us",
    "session":100
}

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

print(response.text)
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100",
  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;
}
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Go" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100"

	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))

}
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```java
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100")
  .asString();
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title=".NET" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```csharp
var client = new RestClient("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/get&country=us&session=100")

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
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="danger" %} <mark style="color:red;">**Important!**</mark> The `url` parameter has to be encoded.

*( i.e. **\&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww\.webscrapingapi.com%2F** )*
{% endhint %}

<details>

<summary>Response Example</summary>

```javascript
{
    "args": {},
    "headers": {
        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
        "Host": "httpbin.org",
        "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4889.0 Safari/537.36",
        "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6267dd3f-42cb5973084b3ac25f46af1e"
    },
    "origin": "192.241.96.150",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}
```

</details>