webscraping_ai

WebScrapingAI - the Ruby gem for the WebScraping.AI

A client for https://webscraping.ai API. It provides Chrome JS rendering, rotating proxies and HTML parsing for web scraping.

This SDK is automatically generated by the OpenAPI Generator project:

  • API version: 1.0.0
  • Package version: 1.0.0
  • Build package: org.openapitools.codegen.languages.RubyClientCodegen

Installation

Install from RubyGems

Add the following in the Gemfile:

gem 'webscraping_ai'

Getting Started

Please follow the installation procedure and then run the following code:

# Load the gem
require 'webscraping_ai'

# Setup authorization
WebScrapingAI.configure do |config|
  # Configure API key authorization: api_key
  config.api_key['api_key'] = 'test-api-key'
end

api_instance = WebScrapingAI::HtmlApi.new
url = 'https://example.com' # String | URL of the page to get
opts = {
  selector: 'html', # String | CSS selector to get a part of the page (null by default, returns whole page HTML)
  outer_html: false, # Boolean | Return outer HTML of the selected element (false by default, returns inner HTML)
  proxy: 'US', # String | Proxy country code, for geotargeting (US by default)
  disable_js: false, # Boolean | Disable JS execution (false by default)
  inline_css: false # Boolean | Inline included CSS files to make page viewable on other domains (false by default)
}

begin
  #Get page HTML by URL (renders JS in Chrome and uses rotating proxies)
  result = api_instance.get_page(url, opts)
  p result
rescue WebScrapingAI::ApiError => e
  puts "Exception when calling HtmlApi->get_page: #{e}"
end

Documentation for API Endpoints

All URIs are relative to https://webscraping.ai/api

Class Method HTTP request Description
WebScrapingAI::HtmlApi get_page GET / Get page HTML by URL (renders JS in Chrome and uses rotating proxies)

Documentation for Models

Documentation for Authorization

api_key

  • Type: API key
  • API key parameter name: api_key
  • Location: URL query string