Retrieve data from a URL

Improve performance and reduce response times by blocking non-essential advertisements, trackers, and cookie banners.

Control CSS animations and transitions during website rendering. Ensures consistent snapshots by handling motion effects in the headless browser.

Detect and extract audio sources from any URL. It returns browser-friendly audio URLs along with metadata enabling integration of media content from platforms.

Take full control of cache identity to maximize hit rates and avoid redundant processing. Requires an API key (free plan included).

Automate browser interactions by clicking specific DOM elements via CSS selectors. Use this parameter to trigger navigation, toggle UI components, or change page state.

Force the browser to render websites in light or dark mode using the prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature.

Define custom data extraction rules using CSS selectors. Extract specific content like prices, reviews, or any structured data from any URL, through the API or the SDK.

Emulate a wide range of mobile, tablet, and desktop devices by automatically setting the correct viewport, user agent, and screen resolution.

Return a specific data field directly as the response body with appropriate content-type headers. Embed screenshots, PDFs, or extracted data directly in HTML, CSS, or Markdown.

Define a custom name for generated assets like screenshots or PDFs using the filename parameter. Requires an API key (free plan included).

Reduce response bandwidth and optimize payload size by selecting specific data fields.

Bypass the Microlink CDN cache to fetch a fresh version of the target URL. Use the force parameter to invalidate existing cached copies and ensure the most up-to-date metadata.

Execute custom JavaScript code inside a headless browser to perform advanced scraping or automation tasks. Gain full control over the page lifecycle with Puppeteer access.

Configure custom HTTP headers to be sent with your requests to the target URL. This Pro feature allows for emulating specific browsers. Requires an API key (free plan included).

The iframe parameter returns ready-to-use HTML and script tags for hundreds of providers.

Analyze web performance and stack data with Microlink Insights. Extract identified technologies via Wappalyzer and detailed Lighthouse audit reports directly from any target URL.

Generate comprehensive Google Lighthouse reports for any URL. Export web performance audits in JSON, HTML, or CSV formats using custom configurations via Microlink API.

Identify the software stack behind any URL using Microlink technology detection. It returns a detailed list of frameworks, CDNs, and analytics tools with confidence scores.

Control whether JavaScript is executed within the headless browser for a target URL.

Switch between "screen" and "print" CSS media queries to control how a website renders for capture.

Extract normalized metadata from any URL, including titles, descriptions, images, and logos.

Inject JavaScript modules into a webpage during the rendering process.

Extract dominant color palettes and accessibility-compliant color schemes from detected images.

Customize the paper format for PDF generation from any URL. Supports standard sizes including A4, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid for high-quality.

Set a custom paper height for your PDF generation using pixels, inches, or other CSS units. Fine-tune the dimensions of your website-to-PDF conversions.

Generate high-quality PDFs from any website using Microlink headless browser infrastructure.

Set the paper orientation to landscape for your website-to-PDF conversions. Toggle between portrait and landscape modes to optimize the layout of generated PDF documents.

Configure custom paper margins for your website-to-PDF conversions. Specify unified margins or individual top, bottom, left, and right values.

Define specific page ranges for your website-to-PDF conversion. Extract single pages or custom intervals like "1-5, 8, 11-13" from any URL using the Microlink API pageRanges parameter.

Adjust the zoom level of your website-to-PDF conversions using the scale parameter with Microlink API automated browser.

Set a custom paper width for your PDF generation using pixels, inches, or other CSS units. Fine-tune the horizontal dimensions of your website-to-PDF conversions.

Validate the accessibility of all URLs extracted in the response payload. The ping parameter verifies that links to images, videos, or audio are publicly reachable.

Optimize how content is fetched from the target URL by choosing between a headless browser or a simple HTTP request.

Bypass IP rate limits, CAPTCHAs, and regional restrictions using high-quality proxy rotation. Requires an API key (free plan included).

Route the request through a proxy IP in a specific country to fetch region-specific content. Requires an API key (free plan included).

Route every sub-request through your own HTTP proxy server. Requires an API key (free plan included).

Configure the number of exponential backoff retries to attempt if the underlying browser encounters an unexpected internal error.

Record a website as a short video instead of a static image. Capture animations, transitions and live content as an H.264 MP4 with a single API call.

Beautify HTML and JSON content with professional code syntax highlighting using the codeScheme parameter. Choose from popular Prism themes like Darcula or provide a custom CSS URL.

Capture a specific DOM element as a screenshot by providing a CSS selector. The Microlink API automatically waits for the element to be visible before rendering the image.

Capture a high-resolution screenshot of the entire scrollable content of a website. Use the fullPage parameter to render the complete layout of a URL.

Generate high-fidelity screenshots of any website with a single API call. Automatically handle headless browser infrastructure to extract visual data.

Generate transparent screenshots by omitting the default white background of the webpage.

Create professional screenshot compositions with customizable browser overlays and backgrounds.

Control JPEG compression for website screenshots. Set quality between 0 and 100 to balance file size and visual fidelity.

Choose between JPEG or PNG file formats for your website screenshots. Assets are automatically optimized and served in modern formats based on client device capabilities.

Inject custom JavaScript into a webpage before it is rendered or captured.

Navigate to specific sections of a webpage by scrolling to a DOM element matching a CSS selector.

Optimize API performance by serving cached content while simultaneously refreshing it in the background. Requires an API key (free plan included).

Inject custom CSS into a webpage before it is rendered or captured. The styles parameter supports both inline CSS rules and absolute URLs to external stylesheets.

Define the maximum duration allowed for the API to process a request before timing out. The timeout parameter accepts values in milliseconds or human-readable formats.

Define the cache expiration time for your requests to balance data freshness and response speed. The ttl parameter supports human-readable formats. Requires an API key (free plan included).

The primary address of the website you want to process. The url parameter is the core requirement for any Microlink API request, serving as the base for metadata extraction.

Detect and extract direct video source URLs from any website in a browser-friendly format.

Customize the browser visible area and device capabilities to control how a website is rendered.

Pause browser execution until a specific element is present in the DOM. The waitForSelector parameter ensures that dynamic content is fully rendered before extracting data.

Force the headless browser to wait for a specific duration before capturing or extracting data from the target URL.

Fine-tune when Microlink considers a page fully "loaded" by waiting for specific lifecycle events.