waitForTimeout

Type:

It tells the browser to wait a quantity of time in milliseconds before processing the content over the target url.

The following examples show how to use the Microlink API with CLI, cURL, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP & Golang, targeting 'https://dev.to' URL with 'screenshot' & 'waitForTimeout' API parameters:

CLI Microlink API example

microlink https://dev.to&screenshot&waitForTimeout=3000

cURL Microlink API example

curl -G "https://api.microlink.io" \
  -d "url=https://dev.to" \
  -d "screenshot=true" \
  -d "waitForTimeout=3000"

JavaScript Microlink API example

import mql from '@microlink/mql'

const { data } = await mql('https://dev.to', {
  screenshot: true,
  waitForTimeout: 3000
})

Python Microlink API example

import requests

url = "https://api.microlink.io/"

querystring = {
    "url": "https://dev.to",
    "screenshot": "true",
    "waitForTimeout": "3000"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=querystring)

print(response.json())

Ruby Microlink API example

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

base_url = "https://api.microlink.io/"

params = {
  url: "https://dev.to",
  screenshot: "true",
  waitForTimeout: "3000"
}

uri = URI(base_url)
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
response = http.request(request)

puts response.body

PHP Microlink API example

<?php

$baseUrl = "https://api.microlink.io/";

$params = [
    "url" => "https://dev.to",
    "screenshot" => "true",
    "waitForTimeout" => "3000"
];

$query = http_build_query($params);
$url = $baseUrl . '?' . $query;

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET"
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #: " . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}

Golang Microlink API example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
    "io"
)

func main() {
    baseURL := "https://api.microlink.io"

    u, err := url.Parse(baseURL)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    q := u.Query()
    q.Set("url", "https://dev.to")
    q.Set("screenshot", "true")
    q.Set("waitForTimeout", "3000")
    u.RawQuery = q.Encode()

    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", u.String(), nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

import mql from '@microlink/mql'

const { data } = await mql('https://dev.to', {
  screenshot: true,
  waitForTimeout: 3000
})

The value provided in the following formats:

as number in milliseconds (e.g., 3000).
as humanized representation of the number (e.g., '3s').

The following humanized number variations are supported:

https://microlink.io&waitForTimeout=3s       # 3000
https://microlink.io&waitForTimeout=3secs    # 3000
https://microlink.io&waitForTimeout=3second  # 3000
https://microlink.io&waitForTimeout=3seconds # 3000