# Sessions

When you want to use the same proxy for multiple requests then you can simply use **`session_number`** parameter. The value of the session can be any integer, simply send a new integer to create a new session (this will allow you to continue using the same proxy for each request with that session number). Sessions expire 60 seconds after the last usage.

**No extra** cost is involved for using this feature.

### API Example

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{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape?api_key=5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&session_number=666"
```

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{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape"
api_key = "5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86"
target_url = "http://httpbin.org/ip"
session_number = "666"

params = {
    "api_key": api_key,
    "url": target_url,
    "session_number": session_number
}

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

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

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Nodejs" %}

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

const apiUrl = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape';
const apiKey = '5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86';
const targetUrl = 'http://httpbin.org/ip';
const sessionNumber = '666';

const params = {
  api_key: apiKey,
  url: targetUrl,
  session_number: sessionNumber,
};

axios
  .get(apiUrl, { params })
  .then((response) => {
    console.log(response.data);
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(`Request failed with status code ${error.response.status}`);
  });

```

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{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php

$apiUrl = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape';
$apiKey = '5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86';
$targetUrl = 'http://httpbin.org/ip';
$sessionNumber = '666';

$queryParams = http_build_query([
    'api_key' => $apiKey,
    'url' => $targetUrl,
    'session_number' => $sessionNumber,
]);

$fullUrl = $apiUrl . '?' . $queryParams;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fullUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if ($response === false) {
    echo 'cURL Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    echo $response;
}

curl_close($ch);

```

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{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'net/http'

api_url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape'
api_key = '5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86'
target_url = 'http://httpbin.org/ip'
session_number = '666'

query_params = URI.encode_www_form(api_key: api_key, url: target_url, session_number: session_number)
full_url = "#{api_url}?#{query_params}"

uri = URI(full_url)
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)

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

```

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{% tab title="Java" %}

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

public class CurlToJava {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String apiURL = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape";
            String apiKey = "5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86";
            String targetURL = "http://httpbin.org/ip";
            String sessionNumber = "666";

            String query = String.format("api_key=%s&url=%s&session_number=%s",
                apiKey, targetURL, sessionNumber);
            
            URL url = new URL(apiURL + "?" + query);
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");

            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
                String inputLine;
                StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

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

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

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}