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cURL to R converter

Paste a cURL command and get the same request in R, using httr. It converts in your browser; nothing you paste is sent anywhere.

library(httr)

headers <- c(
  "Authorization" = "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response <- GET("https://api.scraper.example/v1/scrape?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshop.example.com%2Fproducts%3Fpage%3D2&render_js=true&country=us", add_headers(.headers = headers))
print(status_code(response))
cat(content(response, "text"))

Running the code

Install httr from CRAN and run it in R or RStudio. The headers go in add_headers, basic authentication in authenticate and a timeout in seconds in timeout.

Where httr differs from curl

httr returns any HTTP status as a response; use stop_for_status or check status_code before reading content, which the code prints as text.

What calls like this one cost

The example is a scraping API call with JavaScript rendering on and a country chosen. 100,000 of them a month cost from $49.00 on ScrapeBadger, and the same pages without rendering from $19.00 on BrowserCloud, the cheapest complete bills across 27 web scraping APIs this site prices from their own pages. What rendering adds on each API

The same command in another language

• Python
• JavaScript (fetch)
• Node.js (fetch)
• Node.js (Axios)
• Node.js (request)
• PHP
• Go
• Java
• Rust
• Dart
• Elixir
• MATLAB
• CFML
• JSON