Scrape product pages on audible.com
The call that returns product pages from audible.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
About audible.com
audible.com describes itself as “Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app”.
Its home page declares 12 languages: en-ie, en-ca, en-us, en-in, en-za, nl-be, de-at, nl-nl, en-nc, en-au, es-us, de-ch.
Its sitemaps list 9,981 URLs across 1 file (productDetail_sitemap18). 9,981 of the 9,981 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.
Its robots.txt names 8 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /acc-merge, /account-details, /account-prefs-change.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.9%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.0% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.9s.
Among the 3 books and audio sites in the Cookbook, audible.com ranks 1 of 3 by success rate; the category median is 99.4%. Its median answer of 1.9s is faster than the category median of 10.0s. 1 of the 3 accept the plain token, this one among them.
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.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&country=GB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.audible.com%2Fpd%2Fexample-page"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.audible.com/pd/example-page', {'country': 'GB'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.audible.com/pd/example-page', { country: 'GB' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | GB | 100% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 99.9%; calls without a country succeed at 100%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 99.9% and make up 100% of the traffic. A browser costs more and, on this site, buys nothing. |
URL patterns accounts fetch
| Pattern | Share of successes | JavaScript token | Country | Query parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/pd/{slug} | 100% | 0.0% | GB | ipRedirectOverride, overrideBaseCountry |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on audible.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:
- Home:
Organization, WebSite, FAQPage - Other:
Organization, Audiobook, BreadcrumbList, Product
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
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 1.9s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape audible.com?
No. 99.9% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 100% of their traffic without a browser.
How much does a audible.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. audible.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for audible.com?
GB: that is what 100% of successful calls use.
Other pages on audible.com
Pages audible.com 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.
| Page | Example | Token | Country | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Home/Structured data: Organization, WebSite, FAQPage | audible.com/ | Plain | none | 2.3s |
Other/pd/{slug}/{slug}Structured data: Organization, Audiobook, BreadcrumbList, Product | audible.com/pd/Fiend-Audiobook/B09C7M1DCT | Plain | none | 25.4s |