Scrape product pages on automationdirect.com

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.6%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 13.4% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.2s.

Among the 15 industrial supply sites in the Cookbook, automationdirect.com sits at 3 of 15 by success rate; the category median is 97.5%. Its median answer of 1.2s is faster than the category median of 1.8s. 9 of the 15 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.

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.automationdirect.com%2Fexample-page%2Fexample-page%2Fexample-page"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.automationdirect.com/example-page/example-page/example-page')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.automationdirect.com/example-page/example-page/example-page');

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

A product page usually carries an ld+json Product block with name, price, currency and availability, and the same values in the visible markup. Read the block first; it changes less often than the layout.

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 1.2s.

Questions