# Start a batch scrape

Provider: Bright Data
Final price: $0.0015/result
Success rate: n/a

Start an asynchronous scraping job over a batch of URLs and get a snapshot id back

## Parameters

- type (string, optional)
- format (string, optional)
- notify (boolean, optional)
- endpoint (string, optional)
- dataset_id (string, required)
- auth_header (string, optional)
- discover_by (string, optional)
- include_errors (boolean, optional)
- limit_per_input (integer, optional)
- custom_output_fields (string, optional)
- uncompressed_webhook (boolean, optional)
- limit_multiple_results (integer, optional)
- input (array, required)

## Example

```curl
curl -X POST 'https://toolswitch.dev/v1/tools/brightdata.web.scrape.job.start?dataset_id=gd_l1vikfch901nx3by4' \
  -H "X-Toolswitch-Key: $TOOLSWITCH_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-raw '[{"url":"https://www.instagram.com/instagram"}]'
```

[View on Toolswitch](https://toolswitch.dev/pt/tools/brightdata.web.scrape.job.start)