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Referrals API endpoint

Capture a referral click

Records sanitized referral click metadata for attribution analytics.

POSTpublic1 credit/requestReferralsreferrals.referralClickRequestDocreferrals.referralClickResponseDoc/referrals/click

Overview

Records sanitized referral click metadata for attribution analytics.

Request schema

NameInTypeRequiredEnumExampleDescription
requestbodyobjectYesReferral click metadata

Authentication

This endpoint does not require authentication.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost
1 credit/request
Charged response
Successful 2xx responses
PlanPriceIncluded creditsDaily capRate limitOverage
Free$0/mo2,000500 daily credits5/minNo overage
Starter$9/mo20,0005,000 daily credits15/min$0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled
Growth$29/mo100,00025,000 daily credits45/min$0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled
Pro$79/mo400,000No daily cap120/min$0.30/1,000 overage credits
Business$199/mo1,200,000No daily cap300/min$0.20/1,000 overage credits
Enterprise$499/mo5,000,000No daily cap1,000/min$0.12/1,000 overage credits

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

  • Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
  • Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
  • Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
  • Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
  • Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
  • Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
  • Observability: responses include request context where available

Response behavior

- Stores hashed IP and user-agent values for abuse detection. - Returns the click id that should be kept in the referral click cookie. - Invalid referral codes return the standard invalid params envelope.

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

StatusCommon failure case
400Invalid input or missing required parameter
429Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded
500Internal execution error
502Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

Failure responses

StatusDescriptionSchema
400Invalid request#/definitions/app.Response
500Internal server error#/definitions/app.Response

Request body example

{
  "click_id": "refclk_abc123",
  "code": "A1B2C3D4E5F6",
  "landing_path": "/pricing",
  "utm_campaign": "spring-launch",
  "utm_medium": "email",
  "utm_source": "newsletter"
}

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "ok",
  "data": {
    "click_id": "refclk_abc123",
    "code": "A1B2C3D4E5F6"
  }
}

Request schema

#/definitions/referrals.referralClickRequestDoc

FieldTypeRequiredEnumBoundsExampleDescription
click_idstringNorefclk_abc123
codestringNoA1B2C3D4E5F6
landing_pathstringNo/pricing
utm_campaignstringNospring-launch
utm_mediumstringNoemail
utm_sourcestringNonewsletter

Response schema

#/definitions/referrals.referralClickResponseDoc

FieldTypeRequiredEnumBoundsExampleDescription
click_idstringNorefclk_abc123
codestringNoA1B2C3D4E5F6

Code examples

Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.

curl -X POST "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/referrals/click" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"click_id":"refclk_abc123","code":"A1B2C3D4E5F6","landing_path":"/pricing","utm_campaign":"spring-launch","utm_medium":"email","utm_source":"newsletter"}'

Responsible public web data workflows

Crawlora is designed for responsible structured public web data workflows. Customers are responsible for using Crawlora in compliance with applicable laws, third-party rights, target-platform rules, and Crawlora terms.

Read Crawlora terms

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