Curl Docs

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Using Curl, you can take full advantage of PhantomJsCloud by making HTTP Post Requests to our HTTP Endpoint. Below are some examples outlining how to invoke the HTTP Endpoint from Curl.

General Info

Avoiding 502 (Bad Gateway) Errors IMPORTANT

Curl sets the Expect:true header by default. You must unset this or you will get 502 Bad Gateway errors with your curl requests. The errors won't occur when your POST payload is small, but medium and large POST payloads will always get this 502 error. See the below examples for how to properly make curl calls. (Pass the -H "Expect:" argument to curl).

Post request body: (request.json)

In the following example Curl request POST body, we submit a request.json file. This file follows either the UserRequest or PageRequest specification, which can be viewed from our HTTP Endpoint docs. The default parameters (for pageRequest parameters you do not explicitly set) can be viewed here.

Basic Examples

Minimal Example: Capture a Page as PlainText
This Curl example captures the text from a page and prints to the command-line.

request.json
(in pageRequest format)
{
	"url":"http://example.com",
	"renderType":"plainText"
}

command-line
curl -v -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Expect:" -X POST -d @request.json "https://PhantomJScloud.com/api/browser/v2/a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address/" 

Minimal Example: Verbose output JSON
This Curl example Captures the text from the page and PhantomJsCloud metadata about the request and response, then saves to a .json file.

request.json
(in pageRequest format)
{
	"url":"http://example.com",
	"renderType":"plainText",
	"outputAsJson":true
}

command-line
curl -v -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Expect:" -X POST -d @request.json "https://PhantomJScloud.com/api/browser/v2/a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address/"  -o capture.json

Minimal Example: Capture as JPEG
This Curl example will generate a screenshot of a webpage (including rendering AJAX), then saves to a .jpg file.

request.json
(in pageRequest format)
{
	"url":"http://www.highcharts.com/stock/demo/intraday-area",
	"renderType":"jpeg"
}

command-line
curl -v -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Expect:" -X POST -d @request.json "https://PhantomJScloud.com/api/browser/v2/a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address/"  -o capture.jpg

Minimal Example: Capture as PDF
This Curl example will generate a PDF of Amazon.com's main page (the live, current contents), then saves to a .pdf file.

request.json
(in pageRequest format)
{
	"url":"https://amazon.com",
	"renderType":"pdf"
}

command-line
curl -v -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Expect:" -X POST -d @request.json "https://PhantomJScloud.com/api/browser/v2/a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address/"  -o capture.pdf

Minimal Example: All parameters
This Curl example shows using all PhantomJsCloud parameters in a request, capturing the page as a .jpg image. Most the parameters used are the defaults, but you can see a list of the most up-to-date default values here.

request.json
(in userRequest format)
{
	"pages":[
		{
			"url": "http://example.com",
			"content": null,
			"urlSettings": {
				"operation": "GET",
				"encoding": "utf8",
				"headers": {},
				"data": null
			},
			"renderType": "jpg",
			"outputAsJson": false,
			"requestSettings": {
				"ignoreImages": false,
				"disableJavascript": false,
				"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/534.34 PhantomJS/2.0.0 (PhantomJsCloud.com/2.0.1)",
				"authentication": {
					"userName": "guest",
					"password": "guest"
				},
				"xssAuditingEnabled": false,
				"webSecurityEnabled": false,
				"resourceWait": 15000,
				"resourceTimeout": 35000,
				"maxWait": 35000,
				"waitInterval": 1000,
				"stopOnError": false,
				"resourceModifier": [],
				"customHeaders": {},
				"clearCache": false,
				"clearCookies": false,
				"cookies": [],
				"deleteCookies": []
			},
			"suppressJson": [
				"events.value.resourceRequest.headers",
				"events.value.resourceResponse.headers",
				"frameData.content",
				"frameData.childFrames"
			],
			"renderSettings": {
				"quality": 70,
				"pdfOptions": {
					"border": null,
					"footer": {
						"firstPage": null,
						"height": "1cm",
						"lastPage": null,
						"onePage": null,
						"repeating": "%pageNum%/%numPages%"
					},
					"format": "letter",
					"header": null,
					"height": null,
					"orientation": "portrait",
					"width": null
				},
				"clipRectangle": null,
				"renderIFrame": null,
				"viewport": {
					"height": 1280,
					"width": 1280
				},
				"zoomFactor": 1,
				"passThroughHeaders": false
			},
			"scripts": {
				"domReady": [],
				"loadFinished": []
			}
		}
	],
	"proxy":false
}

command-line
curl -v -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Expect:" -X POST -d @request.json "https://PhantomJScloud.com/api/browser/v2/a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address/"  -o capture.jpg

Need more advanced examples?

Check out the Advanced Scenario Samples section of the Docs Index Page for Page Automation, Auto-Login, and more.