Errors

Possible error responses from the scraping API.

Error Responses

The ScrapingAnt API uses common HTTP status codes: 2xx range for success, 4xx range for errors caused by the caller (invalid requests) and 5xx range for server errors. Each error response contains a JSON object defining the detail property, which is a string that contains a human-readable error description. For example:

{
  "detail": "Wrong host part of url. Please check out the documentation https://scrapingant.com/documentation/"
}

Error Codes

Here is the table of the errors that can occur for both GET and POST methods with scraping API:

HTTP status code	Reason
400	Wrong request format. Make sure that you're using a proper JSON input.
403	The API token is wrong or you have exceeded the API credits limit.
404	The requested URL is not reachable. Please, check it locally.
405	The API endpoint can only be accessed using the following HTTP methods: GET, POST.
422	Invalid value provided. Please, look into detail for more info.
423	The anti-bot detection system has detected the request. Please, retry or change the request settings.
500	Something went wrong with the server side code. Rare case. We're recommending to contact us in this case.