Requesting Multiple Response Formats

To improve efficiency our API provides a functionality to request multiple formats in a single response.

Supported formats

Type	Description
`raw`	The raw response body from the URL, which is usually but not exclusively an HTML document
`parsed`	The parsed page content, provided in JSON format
`markdown`	Markdown response
`xhr`	XHR requests captured during page rendering
`png`	A screenshot of the web page in PNG format

This following table shows available response formats, which are determined by the parameters included in your API request. Keep in mind that not all targets support every parameter, therefore results output can vary.

Parse	XHR	Markdown	Headless	Default output	Results output
`true`			OR `html`	parsed	html, parsed
`true`			`png`	parsed	html, parsed, png
`true`	`true`		`html`	parsed	html, parsed, xhr
`true`		`true`	OR `html`	parsed	html, parsed, markdown
`true`	`true`	`true`	`html`	parsed	html, parsed, xhr, markdown
	`true`		`html`	xhr	html, xhr
	`true`	`true`	`html`	markdown	html, xhr, markdown
		`true`	`png`	markdown	html, markdown, png
			`png`	png	html, png
			OR `html`	html	html

Multi-format response for Real-time (Synchronous) Requests

To receive multi-format response for synchronous requests add ?type= parameter to request URL and specify desired response type, i.e.:

https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape?type=raw,xhr

Multi-format response for Asynchronous Requests

To receive multi-format response for asynchronous requests add ?type= parameter to results request URL and specify desired response type, i.e.:

https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/task/{task_id}/results?type=raw,xhr

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