PHP SDK for ScraperAPI

Simplify your web scrapping tasks with ScraperAPI. This SDK works with Guzzle client, providing asynchronous multithreading requests and convenient PSR-7 response.

Installation

Requires PHP version 7.2 or higher

$ composer require evgeek/scraperapi-sdk

Basic usage

<?php

use Evgeek\Scraperapi\Client;

require '/path/to/you/vendor/autoload.php';

//Create and configure a new SDK client
$sdk = new Client('YOUR_TOKEN');

//Send request
$response = $sdk->get('https://example.com');

//Work with \Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface
echo $response->getBody()->getContents();

Setup client

The client is configured through the constructor parameters:

• $apiKey (required) - your API key from ScraperAPI dashboard.
• $defaultApiParams - default API parameters for requests
• $defaultHeaders - default HTTP headers
• $timeout (default 60) - request timeout.
• $tries (default 3) - number of request attempts.
• $delayMultiplier (default 1) - delay multiplier before new request attempt in seconds. Multiplier 3 means 2nd attempt will be in 3 sec, 3rd attempt in 6 sec, etc.
• $printDebugInfo (default false) - if true, debug messages will be printed. Useful for debugging async requests.
• $showApiKey (default false) - if false, API key in debug messages will be replaced by 'API_KEY' string.
• $logger (default null) - PSR-3 compatible logger for debug messages. If null, they will be sent to the STDOUT.
• $logLevel (default null) - log level for PSR-3 logger. If null, debug messages will be sent to the DEBUG level.
• $maxExceptionsLength (default 120) - maximum length of Guzzle exceptions messages.

Configure default SDK Client parameters

API parameters

Configuring default API functionality according to ScraperAPI documentation . The default settings apply to all requests, unless they are overridden at the request level. You can set the default options only from constructor (SDK client is immutable), using the second parameter:

$defaultApiParams = [
    'country_code' => 'us', //activate country geotargetting
    'render' => true, //activate javascript rendering
    'premium' => false, //activate premium residential and mobile IPs
    'session_number' => 123, //reuse the same proxy
    'keep_headers' => true, //use your own custom headers
    'device_type' => 'mobile', //set mobile or desktop user agents
    'autoparse' => 'false', //activate auto parsing for select websites
];
$sdk = new Client('YOU_TOKEN', $defaultApiParams);

Headers

You can add default headers with the third parameter of the constructor. Don't forget to enable keep_headers to allow your headers to be used!

$defaultHeaders = [
    'Referer' => 'https://example.com/',
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
];
$sdk = new Client('YOU_TOKEN', ['keep_headers' => true], $defaultHeaders);

Requests

SDK supports GET, POST and PUT HTTP methods. Standard parameters of each request methods:

1. $url (required) - url of scrapped resource.
2. $apiParams (default null) - to set the API settings for the request. They will override the defaults from the SDK Client (only those that overlap).
3. $headers (default null) - to set headers for the request. Just like $apiParams, they will override the defaults from the SDK Client (only those that overlap).

Synchronous

GET

Pretty simple:

$response = $sdk->get(
    'https://example.com', 
    ['keep_headers' => true], 
    [
        'Referer' => 'https://example.com/',
        'Accept' => 'application/json',
    ]
);
$content = $response->getBody()->getContents();

POST/PUT

A bit more complicated:

$response = $sdk->post('https://example.com', $apiParams, $headers, $body, $formParams, $json);
$content = $response->getBody()->getContents();

You can use three types of payload:

• $body for raw string, fopen() resource or Psr\Http\Message\StreamInterface.
• $formParams - for form data . Associative array of form field names to values where each value is a string or array of strings.
• $json - for json. The passed associative array will be automatically converted to json data.

There are also short forms of methods for different types of payloads:

$response = $sdk->postBody($url, $body, $apiParams, $headers);
$response = $sdk->postForm($url, $formParams, $apiParams, $headers);
$response = $sdk->postJson($url, $json, $apiParams, $headers);

By the way, it is convenient to pass the GraphQL payload through $json:

$query = '
    query HeroNameAndFriends($episode: Episode) {
      hero(episode: $episode) {
        name
        friends {
          name
        }
      }
    }
';
$json = ['query' => $query, 'variables' => ['episode' => 'JEDI']];

$response = $sdk->postJson('https://example.com', $json);

Asynchronous

Everything is similar to synchronous, but the work is going not through requests, but through promises:

//Create array with promises
$promises = [
    'first' => $sdk->getPromise('https://example.com', ['country_code' => 'us']),
    'second' => $sdk->postPromiseBody('https://example.com', 'payload'),
];
//Asynchronous fulfillment of promises
$responses = $sdk->resolvePromises($promises);

//Work with array of responses
foreach ($responses as $response) {
    echo $response->getBody()->getContents() . PHP_EOL;
}

Your ScraperAPI Account Information

You can get your ScraperAPI account information using the accountInfo() method:

$info = $sdk->accountInfo();
var_dump(json_decode($info, true));

array(5) {
  ["concurrencyLimit"]=>
  int(5)
  ["concurrentRequests"]=>
  int(0)
  ["failedRequestCount"]=>
  int(258)
  ["requestCount"]=>
  int(588)
  ["requestLimit"]=>
  string(4) "1000"
}