# Parameter Description

Understanding Thordata's Universal Scraping API - Scraping Parameters

**Token:**\
This parameter defines the API token used for scraping. It plays a decisive role in your successful scraping.

| Parameter | Name  | Function                                     |
| --------- | ----- | -------------------------------------------- |
| token     | Token | API token for authentication during scraping |

**URL:**\
This parameter defines the target website URL for scraping, with google.com as default. You can also change it to other search engine links.

| Parameter | Name | Function                        |
| --------- | ---- | ------------------------------- |
| url       | URL  | Target website URL for scraping |

**Output Format:**\
This parameter defines the output format of scraped results. Options include HTML and PNG formats, with HTML as default.

| Parameter | Name          | Function                                 | Parameter Values                 |
| --------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| format    | Output Format | Defines output format of scraped results | <p>format=HTML<br>format=PNG</p> |

**JS Rendering:**\
JS rendering can handle dynamically loaded content and Single Page Applications (SPA), supporting more interactive and complex pages and rendering requirements. We recommend enabling this.

| Parameter  | Name         | Function                                              | Parameter Values                           |
| ---------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| js\_render | JS Rendering | Determines whether to get JS-rendered webpage content | <p>js\_render=True<br>js\_render=False</p> |

**Block Website Resources:**\
This parameter can restrict unnecessary resource scraping to speed up the process.

| Parameter        | Name            | Function                                                                        | Parameter Values                                              |
| ---------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| block\_resources | Block Resources | Determines whether to fetch certain unnecessary resources (multiple selectable) | <p>block\_resources=Images<br>block\_resources=JavaScript</p> |

**country:**\
This parameter defines which country/region's proxy to use during scraping, with no proxy country/region's as default.

| Parameter | Name           | Function                                           | Parameter Values                                  |
| --------- | -------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| country   | Country/Region | Specifies proxy country/region to use for scraping | <p>country=Random<br>country=Any country code</p> |


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