Create a crawling task description

Basic Information

Interface Description: Create a crawling task for the Web Scraper API through the interface.

Text request address: https://scraperapi.thordata.com/builder YouTube audio/video request address: https://scraperapi.thordata.com/video_builder

Request Method: POST

Request parameters

Header：

Parameter name	Type	Required	Describe
token	string	Yes	Please log in to the Dashboard-MENU-My Account to view your token parameter value
Authorization	string	Yes	Please log in to the Dashboard to view your Authorization token parameter value. Example: "Authorization: Bearer *********************"

Body：

Parameter name	Type	Required	Describe
spider_name	string	Yes	Facebook: spider_name facebook.com Amazon: spider_name amazon.com YouTube: spider_name youtube.com
spider_id	string	Yes	Amazon: spider_id amazon_product_by-url, amazon_product_by-best-sellers, etc. YouTube: spider_id youtube_video_by-url, youtube_audio_by-url, etc. For more ids, please see the parameter description.
spider_parameters	text	Yes	Amazon: url crawling link, zip_code zip code, sort_by sorting method, etc. YouTube: url crawling link. For more parameters, please see the parameter description.
spider_errors	string	Yes	true
file_name	string	Yes	Customize the name of the downloaded file. {{TasksID}}, {{VideoID}}, etc.

Response example

{
    "code": 200,
    "data": {
        "task_id": "68a21d2e8f2645e39f3d62231ef6d829"
    }
}

If the returned code value is not 200, please check the error code description list and modify it.

Parameter name	Type	Required	Describe
code	number	Yes	The returned code value.
data	object	No	The returned details.
task_id	number	No	The id of the task.