Trigger a proxy request

Endpoint: POST https://api.brightdata.com/wsapi

Example request

Request

API_KEY="your api key here"
curl -v \
    --max-time 900 \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
    -d '{"zone": "unblocker","url": "https://example.com", "format": "json"}' \
    https://api.brightdata.com/wsapi

Response

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "headers": {
    "date": "Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:46:04 GMT",
    "expires": "-1",
    "cache-control": "private, max-age=0",
    "content-type": "text/html; charset=UTF-8",
    "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000",
    "content-security-policy": "object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-h08eIpRAbozlS3uJWJNgkA' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/sf",
    "accept-ch": "Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme",
    "server": "gws",
    "x-xss-protection": "0",
    "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN",
    "alt-svc": "h3=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-29=\":443\"; ma=2592000",
    "connection": "keep-alive",
    "keep-alive": "timeout=5",
    "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
  },
  "body": "<!doctype html><html><body>...</body></html>"
}

Request parameters

string

required

The URL you want to load

string

required

The proxy zone you want to use for the request

string

required

The response format you want to output (raw or json)

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