AskPablos API Documentation

A Python client for making web requests through the AskPablos proxy service.

Contents:

Features

  • Secure Authentication: HMAC-SHA256 signature-based

  • Browser Automation: JavaScript rendering with browser=True

  • Browser Operations: Wait for elements with waitForElement

  • Screenshot Capture: screenshot=True

  • Custom Headers & Params: Full control over requests

  • Error Handling: Specific exception types for each failure mode

Quick Example

from askpablos_api import AskPablos
from lxml import etree

client = AskPablos(
    api_key="your_api_key",
    secret_key="your_secret_key"
)

# Static page
response = client.get("https://httpbin.org/ip")
print(response.content)

# JS-rendered page — wait for element, then parse
response = client.get(
    "https://example.com",
    browser=True,
    operations=[{
        "task": "waitForElement",
        "match": {"on": "xpath", "rule": "visible", "value": "//body"}
    }]
)
dom = etree.HTML(response.content)

Architecture

  • AskPablos: Main interface (GET requests)

  • ProxyClient: Lower-level client with full HTTP method support

  • ResponseData: Response object (status_code, content, headers, screenshot, elapsed_time)

  • AuthManager: HMAC-SHA256 signing

Current version: 0.3.1