Browser APIs# Browser API
## About Browser APIs
The internet is full of information, and data comes in various forms such as text, audio, images, or videos. Website owners need to extract data to obtain insights on how best to improve their websites for more scalability and performance.
## What is Browser APIs
The most effective tool to achieve the goal of improving your website is the browser API. Browser APIs are application programming interfaces made for browsing using a collection of functions and libraries written in a particular programming language.
## How browser APIs works
The API works based on the context and the aim of the user on the browser. A developer usually requests an API key from the preferred browser. The key works similarly to a password to grant access and identify who is making calls to the API.
Most websites use CSS, HTML, or JavaScript code language in building the requests. A developer generally uses HTTPS request protocol to create, retrieve, update, or delete API data on the server.
After defining the request from the client, the server checks the request to understand the information required and returns the results in JSON or XML data interchange formats.
## Users
**Front end Developers** - Frontend developers should have a good mastery of these APIs as it will enable them to improve on their development skills using any kind of framework. The ability to write less code during integration greatly saves on time.
These APIs enable the developer to execute complex tasks without dealing with sophisticated codes. They only need to initialize the codes and the web browser API handles the other tasks
**Websites and Online Stores** - Websites and online stalls exist to make a profit through sales. However, the challenge of cart abandonment frustrates the efforts of online businesses. The browser API can standardize checkout and reduce the procedures of making an online payment saving the buyer's time.
It improves the users' experience and makes it easy for a user to understand the steps to follow to make payments. This way, the business wins as cases of cart and payment abandonment are reduced.
## Benefits
- It is convenient and makes work easier. They identify features that they can work on in your website and let you handle other tasks.
- The automation feature in the web browser API allows other cross-platform application to link and communicate effectively without manual help.
- Easily integrates with other applications.
## Expectation
As the APIs help in making work easier, more and more people will continue using them creating a huge demand in the market. The front end developers will also have the ease of executing operations that are complex without lower-level codes.
A free example under this category is the Canvas API, ScrapeGoat, PhantomJs.Cloud and BrowserObject APIs.
## Best Browser APIs
1. [Screenleap](https://rapidapi.com/baskarm28/api/screenleap)
2. [PhantomJS Cloud Web Browser and Webpage Processing as a Service](https://rapidapi.com/novaleaf/api/phantomjs-cloud-web-browser-and-webpage-processing-as-a-service)
3. [ScrapingAnt](https://rapidapi.com/okami4kak/api/scrapingant)
4. [ScrapeGoat](https://rapidapi.com/warting/api/scrapegoat)
## Browser API SDKs
All Browser APIs are supported and made available in [multiple developer programming languages and SDKs](https://docs.rapidapi.com/v2.0/docs/getting-started-with-rapidapi-sdks) including:
1. Node.js
2. PHP
3. Python
4. Ruby
5. Objective-C
6. Java (Android)
7. C# (.NET)
8. cURL
Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.
[Sign up today for free on RapidAPI](https://rapidapi.com/signup) to begin using Browser APIs!
This is an api that let's you execute javascript on any website and lets you get anything back as respond. The API can also take screenshots of a webpage, resize the viewport, pre-render SPA applications and also be able to play with a real canvas element and whatever you can do in a browser
Do you need to screen-scrape Javascript Websites?
PhantomJs.Cloud is
- A web-browser hosted as a service, using Chrome WebKit to render your javascript heavy webpages as HTML, JPEG, PDF, or JSON.
- A Cloud of PhantomJS instances to process more than 100 pages per second.
- A REST API allowing you to request and obtain your pages.
- A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with free plans, and paid plans starting at $1 for 5,000 pages.
(BitCoin and Free plan available)
Screenleap is a web-based service that enables users to share their computer screens with others. Shared screens can be viewed with a web browser from a PC, tablet, or smartphone. No account is needed to use the service. Screen share requests can be made by clicking a button on the Screenleap website or by using the Screenleap REST API.
The BrowserObject Browser Detection Web Service allows instant detection of online visitor's Web Browser information.
Sign up for free license key at http://www.fraudlabs.com/freelicense.aspx?PackageID=8 which allows up to 90 queries a month.
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