Getting started with Webcrawler API
Webcrawler API helps you to extract data from websites. It is a powerful tool that can be used to extract data from websites that do not provide an API. Read more about it here: Webcrawler API
Prerequisites
In order to use Webcrawler API you need first to obtain an API key:
- Register on Webcrawler API Dashboard
- Navigate to the API key section
- Copy your API key
First request
To make your first request you can use the following curl command:
This command will start a new crawl job that will extract data from the Stripe website. The items_limit
parameter specifies how many items you want to extract. The clean_content
parameter specifies if you want to clean the extracted content from HTML tags.
See more at POST /v1/crawl API reference.
Result:
Get crawling result
To get the crawling result you can use the following curl command:
Result:
See more at GET /v1/crawl/:id reference.