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# Fetch and XHR Request Capturing
> The Web Scraping API supports retrieving a list of XHR requests.
Often, extracting the necessary data directly from one or more Fetch or XHR requests made by the browser during page load is more efficient than parsing the HTML content. Therefore, the Web Scraping API supports retrieving a list of XHR requests.
## How to get the XHR request list
To obtain a list of XHR requests in the response, you will need to add the `xhr` with value `true`, for example:
```shellscript cURL theme={null}
# update 'TOKEN VALUE' with your authorization token
curl --request 'POST' \
--url 'https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic TOKEN VALUE' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"url": "https://dummyjson.com/",
"headless": "html",
"xhr": true
}
'
```
You will receive a response containing a list of JSON objects, where each object corresponds to a single XHR request. It's possible to receive a multi-type response; more information can be found [here](https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-scraping-api-requesting-multiple-response-formats).
## Output
| Key | Description |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `url` | URL of the XHR request |
| `status_code` | Status code returned by the HTTP response |
| `method` | Request’s HTTP method (e.g., GET, POST) |
| `request_headers` | A set of key-value pairs for the request headers, with cookies included |
| `request_payload` | Payload content: this key appears only for POST, PUT, and PATCH requests |
| `response_headers` | A set of key-value pairs for the response headers, with cookies included |
| `response_body` | Content returned in the body of the HTTP response |
#### Response Example
```json JSON expandable theme={null}
{
"results": [
{
"content": [
{
"url": "https://dummyjson.com/cdn-cgi/rum?",
"method": "POST",
"status_code": 204,
"response_body": "",
"request_headers": {
"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7",
"origin": "https://dummyjson.com",
"referer": "https://www.yahoo.com/",
"sec-gpc": "1",
"sec-ch-ua": "\"Chromium\";v=\"119\", \"Not)A;Brand\";v=\"24\", \"Opera\";v=\"105\"",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.6045.193 Safari/537.36 OPR/105.0.4970.29",
"content-type": "application/json",
"sec-fetch-dest": "document",
"sec-fetch-mode": "navigate",
"sec-fetch-site": "same-origin",
"sec-fetch-user": "?1",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.8",
"sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
"sec-ch-ua-platform": "\"Linux\"",
"upgrade-insecure-requests": "1"
},
"request_payload": "{\"memory\":{\"totalJSHeapSize\":3750592,\"usedJSHeapSize\":2468952,\"jsHeapSizeLimit\":4294705152},\"resources\":[],\"referrer\":\"\",\"eventType\":1,\"firstPaint\":0,\"firstContentfulPaint\":0,\"startTime\":1755774141001.2,\"versions\":{\"fl\":\"2024.11.0\",\"js\":\"2024.6.1\",\"timings\":2},\"pageloadId\":\"968fbcee-484b-4e53-b4ff-97c0058ba179\",\"location\":\"https://dummyjson.com/\",\"nt\":\"navigate\",\"timingsV2\":{\"unloadEventStart\":0,\"unloadEventEnd\":0,\"domInteractive\":1427.800000011921,\"domContentLoadedEventStart\":2259.9000000059605,\"domContentLoadedEventEnd\":2259.9000000059605,\"domComplete\":2269.5,\"loadEventStart\":2269.5,\"loadEventEnd\":2269.5,\"type\":\"navigate\",\"redirectCount\":0,\"criticalCHRestart\":0,\"activationStart\":0,\"initiatorType\":\"navigation\",\"nextHopProtocol\":\"h2\",\"deliveryType\":\"\",\"workerStart\":0,\"redirectStart\":0,\"redirectEnd\":0,\"fetchStart\":1,\"domainLookupStart\":1,\"domainLookupEnd\":1,\"connectStart\":56.20000001788139,\"connectEnd\":595.3000000119209,\"secureConnectionStart\":457.30000001192093,\"requestStart\":595.4000000059605,\"responseStart\":738,\"responseEnd\":738.9000000059605,\"transferSize\":5175,\"encodedBodySize\":4875,\"decodedBodySize\":24758,\"responseStatus\":200,\"firstInterimResponseStart\":0,\"renderBlockingStatus\":\"non-blocking\",\"finalResponseHeadersStart\":738,\"name\":\"https://dummyjson.com/\",\"entryType\":\"navigation\",\"startTime\":0,\"duration\":2269.5},\"dt\":\"\",\"siteToken\":\"a67792548ccc48faac5fa0d91120d5e7\",\"st\":2}",
"response_headers": {
"nel": "{\"report_to\":\"cf-nel\",\"success_fraction\":0.0,\"max_age\":604800}",
"date": "Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:02:23 GMT",
"vary": "Origin, accept-encoding",
"cf-ray": "9729a34c9e38f032-DFW",
"server": "cloudflare",
"alt-svc": "h3=\":443\"; ma=86400",
"report-to": "{\"group\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800,\"endpoints\":[{\"url\":\"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=1sDYaS2C%2F52rYP10Hp1fu0zokI2eEK0oBZnbM7fLRdM4rxEiqYBMM3vq6yK9wWJkNPj4lmML6rsK9f7eCD%2FA5BPIvQxnJJBjyWbdavc%3D\"}]}",
"content-type": "text/plain",
"server-timing": "cfEdge;dur=3,cfOrigin;dur=0",
"access-control-max-age": "86400",
"access-control-allow-origin": "https://dummyjson.com",
"access-control-allow-methods": "POST,OPTIONS",
"access-control-allow-credentials": "true"
}
}
],
"headers": {
"age": "40350",
"nel": "{\"report_to\":\"cf-nel\",\"success_fraction\":0.0,\"max_age\":604800}",
"date": "Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:02:21 GMT",
"vary": "Accept-Encoding",
"cf-ray": "9729a3416da3f032-DFW",
"server": "cloudflare",
"alt-svc": "h3=\":443\"; ma=86400",
"report-to": "{\"group\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800,\"endpoints\":[{\"url\":\"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=nyhZyWx2mEa9rX30X9iPrHhcsiowOcG89XIWtH7in5vmJKmf3H3LGlmjowKxk2qRcaaiDO2ODdqj6x2zRPJXHCJ4hUyhki1NAxXf7aA%3D\"}]}",
"content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"x-powered-by": "Cats on Keyboards",
"cache-control": "no-store",
"server-timing": "cfCacheStatus;desc=\"HIT\", cfEdge;dur=11,cfOrigin;dur=0",
"x-railway-edge": "railway/us-east4-eqdc4a",
"cf-cache-status": "HIT",
"x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN",
"content-encoding": "br",
"x-xss-protection": "1; mode=block",
"x-ratelimit-limit": "100",
"x-ratelimit-reset": "1755612661",
"x-download-options": "noopen",
"x-railway-request-id": "HnoVBL2CSRWSyS9Vg4a9AQ",
"x-ratelimit-remaining": "99",
"x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
"x-dns-prefetch-control": "off",
"strict-transport-security": "max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains",
"access-control-allow-origin": "*"
},
"cookies": [],
"status_code": 200,
"task_id": "7364250500075630593",
"created_at": "2025-08-21 11:02:20",
"updated_at": "2025-08-21 11:02:35"
}
]
}
```
`xhr` output is not supported by all Target Templates. Check the individual template documentation for compatibility.
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