Web Scraping
Web Scraping
Extract fully rendered HTML from any URL with a single API call.
The Web Scraping API is PagePry's flagship product. Send a URL and get back the fully rendered HTML, including content generated by JavaScript.
Key features
- Full JavaScript rendering — SPAs, React apps, dynamic content — all rendered through a real browser
- Smart readiness detection — automatically determines when a page is fully loaded, no manual wait times needed
- Residential and datacenter proxies — bypass geo-restrictions and bot detection
- Built-in caching — repeat requests are served instantly at zero credit cost
- Custom cookies and headers — scrape authenticated or personalized content
Basic usage
curl -X POST https://api.pagepry.com/v1/scrape \
-H "x-api-key: pp_live_your_key_here" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com"}'Response
{
"success": true,
"html": "<!DOCTYPE html><html>...</html>",
"metadata": {
"statusCode": 200,
"url": "https://example.com",
"resolvedUrl": "https://example.com/",
"contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"renderStrategy": "ssr-early-return",
"loadTimeMs": 847,
"fromCache": false
}
}Learn more
- API Reference — complete request and response schema
- Wait Strategies — choosing the right readiness detection
- Proxies — when and how to use proxies
- Caching — how caching works and when to disable it
- Cookies & Headers — scraping authenticated content