POST, PUT & PATCH Requests

Browser API is not limited to GET requests. You can send POST, PUT, or PATCH requests as well.

Browser API is not limited to GET requests. You can now easily scrape the internet by sending POST, PUT or PATCH requests as well.

Currently in BETA version, the POST, PUT and PATCH requests are sent to the same base API URL. The only requirement for such requests is to pass the data (payload) alongside your request.

As you will see in the examples below, the only difference in implementation between the three is the HTTP method used. Apart from that, both requests are similar with respect to the endpoint and parameters passed.

Please make sure to update <YOUR_API_KEY> with your own API key. Find out how to obtain an API key.

POST Request

POST https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/post

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`api_key`	string	`<YOUR_API_KEY>`
`url`	string	`https://httpbin.org/post/`

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
`foo`	Any	`bar`

Code Samples

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost" \
  --data '{"foo": "bar"}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost", {
  method: "POST",
  body: "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"
});

const data = await response.text();
console.log(data);

import requests

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

TARGET_URL = 'https://httpbin.org/post'
PARAMS = {
    "api_key": API_KEY,
    "url": TARGET_URL,
}

HEADERS = {
    'WSA-Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'WSA-Accept': 'application/json'
}

DATA = {
    "foo": "bar"
}

response = requests.post(SCRAPER_URL, data=DATA, params=PARAMS, headers=HEADERS)

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%2Fpost",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

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

func main() {
	url := "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost"
	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	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.post("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost")
  .body("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")
  .asString();

var client = new RestClient("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fpost");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddParameter("undefined", "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
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%2Fpost")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request.body = "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response example

{
  "form": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/post"
}

PUT Request

PUT https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://httpbin.org/put

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`api_key`	string	`<YOUR_API_KEY>`
`url`	string	`https://httpbin.org/put/`

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
`foo`	Any	`bar`

Code Samples

curl --request PUT \
  --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fput" \
  --data '{"foo": "bar"}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fput", {
  method: "PUT",
  body: "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"
});

const data = await response.text();
console.log(data);

import requests

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

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

PARAMS = {
    "api_key": API_KEY,
    "url": TARGET_URL,
}
HEADERS = {
    'WSA-Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'WSA-Accept': 'application/json'
}

DATA = {
    "foo": "bar"
}

response = requests.put(SCRAPER_URL, data=DATA, params=PARAMS, headers=HEADERS)

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%2Fput",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

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

func main() {
	url := "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fput"
	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, payload)

	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.put("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fput")
  .body("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")
  .asString();

var client = new RestClient("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhttpbin.org%2Fput");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.PUT);
request.AddParameter("undefined", "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
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%2Fput")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request.body = "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response example

{
  "form": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/put"
}

PATCH Request

PATCH https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://reqres.in/api/users/2

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`api_key`	string	`<YOUR_API_KEY>`
`url`	string	https://reqres.in/api/users/2

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
`foo`	Any	`bar`

Code Samples

curl --request PATCH \
  --url "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://reqres.in/api/users/2" \
  --data '{"foo": "bar"}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://reqres.in/api/users/2", {
  method: "PATCH",
  body: "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"
});

const data = await response.text();
console.log(data);

import requests

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

TARGET_URL = 'https://reqres.in/api/users/2'
PARAMS = {
    "api_key": API_KEY,
    "url": TARGET_URL,
}

HEADERS = {
    'WSA-Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'WSA-Accept': 'application/json'
}

DATA = {
    "foo": "bar"
}

response = requests.patch(SCRAPER_URL, data=DATA, params=PARAMS, headers=HEADERS)

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://reqres.in/api/users/2",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

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

func main() {
	url := "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://reqres.in/api/users/2"
	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	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.patch("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://reqres.in/api/users/2")
  .body("{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}")
  .asString();

var client = new RestClient("https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https://reqres.in/api/users/2");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.PATCH);
request.AddParameter("undefined", "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
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://reqres.in/api/users/2")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request.body = "{\n  \"foo\": \"bar\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response example

{
  "name": "morpheus",
  "job": "zion resident",
  "updatedAt": "2024-07-09T06:47:34.063Z"
}

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