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# Post Scraper

You have to send a GET request to **`https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post`** along with the below given parameters. Each successful request will cost **`5`** credits.

### Parameters

| Parameters                                                      | Description                                                                                              |
| --------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p>api\_key<br><br><mark style="color:red;">required</mark></p> | <p>Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard <br><br>Type: <em><strong>String</strong></em></p> |
| <p>id<br><br><mark style="color:red;">required</mark></p>       | <p>Post ID.<br><br>Type: <em><strong>String</strong></em></p>                                            |

### API Example

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post?api_key=APIKEY&id=6976499964512243712"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

<pre class="language-python"><code class="lang-python">import requests

<strong>url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post"
</strong>
params = {
    "api_key": "APIKEY",
    "id": "6976499964512243712"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)

if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()
    print(data)
else:
    print(f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")

</code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Node JS" %}

```javascript
const axios = require('axios');

const url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post';
const params = {
    api_key: 'APIKEY',
    id: '6976499964512243712'
};

axios.get(url, { params: params })
    .then(response => {
        if (response.status === 200) {
            const data = response.data;
            console.log(data);
        } else {
            console.log(`Request failed with status code: ${response.status}`);
        }
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error('An error occurred:', error);
    });

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php

// URL and parameters
$url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post';
$params = array(
    'api_key' => 'APIKEY',
    'id' => '6976499964512243712'
);

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url . '?' . http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the cURL request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for errors
if ($response === false) {
    echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    // Process the response
    echo $response;
}

// Close the cURL session
curl_close($ch);
?>

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'net/http'

url = URI.parse('https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post')
params = {
  api_key: 'APIKEY',
  id: '6976499964512243712'
}

url.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)

if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
  puts response.body
else
  puts "HTTP request failed: #{response.code} #{response.message}"
end

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String apiUrl = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/post/?api_key=APIKEY&id=6976499964512243712";
            URL url = new URL(apiUrl);

            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");

            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

            if (responseCode == 200) {
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
                String inputLine;
                StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

                while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    response.append(inputLine);
                }
                reader.close();

                System.out.println(response.toString());
            } else {
                System.out.println("HTTP request failed: " + responseCode);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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