API Errors

Introduction

If you want to port those definitions into your application, you can checkout the Exportable Definition section to retrieve the JSON describing errors.

Generic API Error

Example of API error response :

{
    status: "error",
    http_code: 401,
    reason: "Unauthorized",
    error_id: "301e2d9e-b4f5-4289-85ea-e452143338df",
    message: "Invalid API key"
}

HTTP 400

Bad Request: Parameters sent to the API are incorrect. Check out the related documentation to figure out the error.

HTTP 404

Not Found: API URL might have a typo or be incorrect. Check out the related documentation to figure out the error.

HTTP 422

Unprocessable Entity: Your request was correct, but for some reason, we cannot handle it. Most of the time, the entity which you want to update/delete has already been processed.

HTTP 429

Too Many Request: API endpoint, which should be called with a high frequency, are throttled internally to prevent service disruption. If this happened too many times, your account would be suspended.

HTTP 500

Internal Server Error: Scrapfly is in trouble, and we have been alerted of the issue.

HTTP 502

Web service that exposes Scrapfly to the internet is in trouble, and we have been alerted of the issue.

HTTP 503

Service Temporary Unavailable: Scrapfly might run in degraded mode, or maintenance was scheduled to upgrade our service.

HTTP 504

Scrapfly is not reachable or takes too much time to respond.

Extraction API Errors

Scrapfly provides API errors in two locations - in the response body and the response headers:

The error details are also present in the response x-scrapfly-reject-* headers.

Error Definitions

Parameters sent to the API are not valid


The content type of the response is not supported for extraction.


Extracted data is invalid or have an issue


The extraction rule is invalid


The template used for extraction is invalid


Target response is empty


Extraction Operation Timeout


Not able to extract more data, backend are out of capacity, retry later.


The provided template do not exist


The extraction was tool long (maximum 25s) or do not had enough time to complete


Exportable Definition

If you want to handle errors from your application without copy-pasting the whole error definition into your application to match errors, here is a portable JSON of error definition:

Summary