Utility Endpoints

Scrapingpass provides few utility endpoints which are documented here.

Base URL

Utility endpoints are well separated from the actual API to prevent any conflicts to /meta/ path.

https://api.scrapingpass.com/meta

Estimate Balance Required

GET /estimate-balance

Calculate and determine the exact balance which will be used for provided set of Scrapingpass API options. The parameters for this endpoint are exactly same as that of HTTP REST API.

note

This endpoint doesn't requires an API Key or any kind of authorization. So the api_key parameter can be omitted.

Example Usage

cURL

curl 'https://api.scrapingpass.com/meta/estimate-balance?url=https://example.com/&screenshot=true'

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.scrapingpass.com/meta/estimate-balance"

options = {
    "url": "https://example.com/",
    "screenshot": True,
}

response = requests.get(url, params=options)

Example Response

{
    "code": "success",
    "data": {
        "balance_required": 6
    },
    "message": null,
    "status_code": 200
}