Web API

Table of contents

Overview

Web API Authentication

Real-time URL request

Parsing Templates

Page Interactions

Delivery methods

Batch Processing

Endpoints and Response Codes

Overview

The Nimble Web API is Nimble’s multi-purpose solution for turning any website into a ready-to-use real-time dataset. Requiring only a URL to operate, the Nimble Web API manages every step of the data collection process from access to delivery. Customers use the Nimble Web API to collect many types of web data, including:

• AI training data collection

• Sales and lead enrichment

• Cross-industry research data gathering

• Social media sentiment analysis

• and more!

Features

The Web API is designed to be versatile and universal, and comes built-in with the following features:

• Real-time data gathering with a single API call

• Flexible delivery methods including multiple Cloud storage providers

• Batch processing of up to 1,000 URLs in a single request

• Support for user-defined custom parsing templates

• Page interactions that enable clicking, scrolling, form submissions, and more for particularly hard-to-reach data.

• Built-in proxies thanks to native integration with Nimble IP - our premium IP network.

Pricing

Nimble API comes with several flexible pricing plans, all of which share the following benefits:

• Pay per success - only successful requests are billed.

• Auto-renewal - plans can optionally renew automatically so your pipelines are never interrupted.

• Product universality - all of Nimble's plans enable access to all of our products.

For detailed pricing information, see our pricing page.

Getting started

To use Nimble API, you'll first need a Nimble account. If you don’t already have an account, our sales team would love to help you get started!

Need help?

This document provides a detailed walkthrough of the usage and capabilities of the Web API. If you have any questions that are not answered here, please let us know by dropping us a line on Slack, sending us a message through our website, or directly through our email at [email protected].