Microlink API:
Browser automation

Data

Enrich the response payload for detecting data from the target URL.

• audio: enables audio source detection from the target URL.
• data: gets specific content extraction from the target URL.
• iframe: gets, if it's possible, the embedded representation of the target URL.
• insights: gets lighthouse performance metrics from the target URL.
• meta: gets unified medata from the target URL.
• palette: gets color information over any image present on the response data.
• pdf: gets a PDF over the target URL.
• screenshot: takes a screenshot over the target URL.
• video: enables video source detection from the target URL.

Browser

Tell the browser to act in a certain way or perform some tasks.

• adblock: enable/disable adblock over abusive third-party content over the browser page.
• animations: enable/disable CSS animations and transitions into the browser page.
• click: clicks DOM elements matching the given CSS selectors.
• codeScheme: sets the code syntax highlighting color theme to use.
• colorScheme: sets preferred browser color theme preference.
• device: emulates an specific device (viewport, user agent, dimensions, etc).
• hide: sets visibility: hidden on the matched elements.
• javascript: enable/disable the javascript engine on the entire browser page.
• mediaType: changes the CSS media type of the page.
• modules: injects <script type="module"> into the browser page.
• ping: enable/disable to resolve all URLs present into the payload.
• prerender: enable/disable browser navigation.
• proxy: uses a proxy server as an intermediary during the requests.
• remove: sets display: none on the matched elements.
• retry: sets the number of exponential backoff retries to perform under an unexpected browser error.
• scripts: injects <script> into the browser page.
• scroll: scrolls to the DOM element matching the given CSS selector.
• styles: injects <style> into the browser page.
• viewport: establishes a set of properties related with the browser visible area.
• waitForSelector: waits for a CSS selector(s) to appear in page.
• waitForTimeout: waits a quantity of time in milliseconds before processing the content of the browser page.
• waitUntil: waits browser event(s) before considering navigation succeeded.

Response

Apply some modifications over the response data for better accommodation.

• embed: embed a specific response data field respecting the content type.
• filter: filters a list of properties from the response data for bandwidth saving.
• force: forces a new fresh response data bypassing the cache layer.
• headers: customizes requests using custom HTTP headers.
• timeout: defines maximum quantity of time allowed for resolving a request.
• ttl: establishes the cache layer specifying the time-to-live before refresh a resource.
• staleTtl: establishes the cache layer specifying when a resource can be considered stale, refreshing on the background.