ScrapeMax API Documentation

Leverage the power of ScrapeMax for advanced web scraping services, featuring proxy support, headless browser capabilities, and specialized image scraping. This comprehensive guide outlines the usage of our robust API endpoints.

Endpoints

1. Basic Web Scraping

• Endpoint: /scrape
• Method: GET
• Description:
  This endpoint performs efficient HTML scraping, perfect for standard web pages. Ideal for automated web scraper tasks, data extraction, and simple web data collection.
• Query Parameters:
  • target_url (required): The URL of the web page to scrape.
  • proxy (optional): basic, premium, stealth (default: basic)
  • base64_encode (optional): Opt to have the response base64 encoded (1: yes, default; 0: no).

2. JavaScript-Enabled Web Scraping

• Endpoint: /scrape-js
• Method: GET
• Description:
  Enhanced scraping for AJAX-enabled websites using a headless browser. Suitable for dynamic content scraping and complex sites where JavaScript rendering is essential.
• Query Parameters:
  • target_url (required): The URL of the JavaScript-heavy web page to scrape.
  • proxy (optional): basic, premium, stealth (default: basic)
  • base64_encode (optional): Choose if the response should be base64 encoded (1: yes, default; 0: no).

3. Image Scraping

• Endpoint: /scrape-image
• Method: GET
• Description:
  Specialized for high-performance image scraping, this endpoint utilizes a headless browser and premium proxy scraping. It’s the go-to solution for SEO data scraping and extracting images efficiently.
• Query Parameters:
  • target_url (required): The URL of the web page for image extraction.
  • proxy (optional): basic, premium, stealth (default: basic)
  • base64_encode (optional): Decide if the response should be base64 encoded (1: yes, default; 0: no).
  • download (optional): Decide if the response should return image (only for image scrape endpont) (1: yes, default; 0: no).

Additional Notes

• Properly encode the target_url to prevent errors.
• The base64_encode parameter is set to 1 (yes) by default.