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| Parameter | Required | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | yes | string | The URL to load | |
| timeout | no | integer | 30 | Timeout in seconds. Give up if still trying to load the page after this number of seconds |
| delay | no | integer | 3 | Delay in seconds to wait before capturing any page data, executing selectors or JavaScript |
| selector | no | string | Extract content from the page DOM using this selector. Commonly known as a CSS selector, you can find a good reference here | |
| exec | no | string | Execute JavaScript on the website. This parameter accepts JavaScript as either a string containing JavaScript or for sending multiple separate statements a JSON array or POST array can also be used. If a statement returns any value it will be returned in the 'exec-results' response. You can also use the following specially defined user interaction functions: sleep(seconds); Just wait/sleep for the specified number of seconds. click('selector'); Click on the first element matching the given selector. focus('selector'); Focus on the first element matching the given selector. keys('characters'); Send the specified keyboard characters. Use click() or focus() first to send keys to a specific element. enter(); Send the Enter key. tab(); Send the Tab key. | |
| user-agent | no | string | Override the browsers default user-agent string with this one | |
| ignore-certificate-errors | no | boolean | false | Ignore any TLS/SSL certificate errors and load the page anyway |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | string | The page URL |
| content | string | The complete raw, decompressed and decoded page content. Usually will be either HTML, JSON or XML |
| mime-type | string | The document MIME type |
| title | string | The document title |
| language-code | string | The ISO 2-letter language code of the page. Extracted from either the HTML document or via HTTP headers |
| is-error | boolean | True if an error has occurred loading the page. Check the 'error-message' field for details |
| is-timeout | boolean | True if a timeout occurred while loading the page. You can set the timeout with the request parameter 'timeout' |
| error-message | string | Contains the error message if an error has occurred ('is-error' will be true) |
| http-status-code | integer | The HTTP status code the URL returned |
| http-status-message | string | The HTTP status message the URL returned |
| is-http-ok | boolean | True if the HTTP status is OK (200) |
| is-http-redirect | boolean | True if the URL responded with an HTTP redirect |
| http-redirect-url | string | The redirected URL if the URL responded with an HTTP redirect |
| server-ip | string | The HTTP servers IP address |
| load-time | float | The number of seconds taken to load the page (from initial request until DOM ready) |
| response-headers | map | Map containing all the HTTP response headers the URL responded with |
| is-secure | boolean | True if the page is secured using TLS/SSL |
| security-details | map | Map containing details of the TLS/SSL setup |
| elements | array | Array containing all the elements matching the supplied selector. Each element object will contain the text content, HTML content and all current element attributes |
| exec-results | array | If you executed any JavaScript this array holds the results as objects |
| Characteristic | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Avg Latency | 1-10s (variable) | This API has a non-deterministic latency based on outside factors |
| Max Rate | 1/second | Maximum inbound request rate. Exceeding this will result in request throttling |
| Max Concurrency | 25 | Maximum concurrent/simultaneous requests. Exceeding this will result in error code 06 [TOO MANY CONNECTIONS] |