Cookbook·Electronics·alternate.de

Scrape product pages on alternate.de

The call that returns product pages from alternate.de today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.

100% success · Aug 2026Browser on 54% of callsStandard price · 1 credit

About alternate.de

alternate.de describes itself as “Shop online with the test winner: multiple-time Shipper of the Year, winner of the webshop test! Great new arrivals & bestsellers, excellent service!”.

Its home page declares 11 languages: de-de, de-at, nl-nl, nl-be, fr-be, fr-fr, es-es, it-it, de-ch, de-lu, da-dk.

Its robots.txt names 11 sitemaps and disallows 6 paths, among them /rest/.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 100%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 54.3% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.4s.

Among the 28 electronics sites in the Cookbook, alternate.de ranks 1 of 28 by success rate; the category median is 99.5%. Its median answer of 1.4s is faster than the category median of 2.0s. 14 of the 28 accept the plain token; this one does on some pages only.

The call

Product pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real product URL from the site.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&country=DE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternate.de%2Fexample-section%2Fexample-page%2Fexample-page"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryDE98.2% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 100%; calls without a country succeed at 100%.
javascriptleave unsetPlain-token calls succeed at 100%, JavaScript-token calls at 100%. Both work; start without the browser and switch per URL pattern where the table below shows it.

URL patterns accounts fetch

PatternShare of successesJavaScript tokenCountryQuery parameters
/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}54.0%23.1%DEsug
/{slug}/{slug}46.0%97.3%DElisting, s, page

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on alternate.de, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

  • Other: BreadcrumbList

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

504: 71.4% of failures A 504 is a timeout: the page did not finish inside the limit. Retry once, and keep your own client timeout above the median answer time shown for this site.
0: 14.3% of failures A status of 0 is a request that never got an answer inside the timeout. Retry once with the JavaScript token if the pattern needs a browser.
515: 14.3% of failures A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.

Run it on a schedule

A catalogue refresh is a list of product URLs. Push it to the Crawler with a callback, let it pace the calls and retry what the site refuses, and read the results from Cloud Storage. The median answer on this site is 1.4s.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape alternate.de?

It depends on the page. Plain-token calls succeed at 100%, JavaScript-token calls at 100%; the URL pattern table shows which paths accounts fetch with a browser.

How much does a alternate.de page cost on Crawlbase?

1 credit without a browser. alternate.de is in the standard tier.

Which country should I set for alternate.de?

DE: that is what 98.2% of successful calls use.

Other pages on alternate.de

Pages alternate.de lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.

PageExampleTokenCountryMedian
Home
/
alternate.de/Plainnone2.4s
Other
/{slug}
Structured data: BreadcrumbList
nonePlainnone2.3s
Site names identify the pages a recipe fetches. Crawlbase is not affiliated with any site listed. Use recipes within the acceptable use policy.Measured numbers from August 2026, refreshed monthly