Cookbook·Electronics·dell.com
Scrape category pages on dell.com
The call that returns category pages from dell.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
97.2% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit
About dell.com
dell.com describes itself as “Dell provides technology solutions, services & support. Buy Laptops, Touch Screen PCs, Desktops, Servers, Storage, Monitors, Gaming & Accessories”.
Its robots.txt names 9 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /buyer/, /post.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 97.2%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.1% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.9s.
Among the 28 electronics sites in the Cookbook, dell.com ranks 21 of 28 by success rate; the category median is 99.5%. Its median answer of 1.9s sits at the category median of 2.0s. 14 of the 28 accept the plain token, this one among them.
The call
Category and listing 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 section URL from the site.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fen-us%2Fshop%2Fexample-page"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/example-page') html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/example-page');
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | leave unset | Most successful calls set no country (99.6%) and succeed at 97.1%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 97.1% and make up 99.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/en-us/shop/{slug} | 52.3% | 0.0% | none | none |
/de-de/shop/{slug} | 19.0% | 0.0% | none | none |
/nl-nl/shop/{slug} | 12.5% | 0.0% | none | none |
/ja-jp/shop/{slug} | 7.3% | 0.0% | none | none |
/en-au/shop/{slug} | 4.8% | 0.0% | none | none |
/pt-br/shop/{slug} | 2.3% | 0.0% | none | none |
/{slug}/{slug}/{slug} | 2.0% | 0.0% | none | none |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on dell.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, VideoObject - Listing:
Organization, VideoObject - Other:
Organization, VideoObject, ImageObject, WebPage
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
403: 66.2% of failures A 403 is the site refusing the exit. Set the country the successful calls use and retry once; a second 403 means the URL itself is protected.
0: 11.1% 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.
415: 5.4% of failures 415 means the site refused the fetch. Treat it like a block: retry once with the JavaScript token and the country the successful calls use, then stop.
Run it on a schedule
Walk the listings on a cadence to find new items, then push the item URLs to the Crawler with a callback; it paces the calls and retries what the site refuses. The median answer on this site is 1.9s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape dell.com?
No. 97.1% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 99.5% of their traffic without a browser.
How much does a dell.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. dell.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for dell.com?
None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.
Other pages on dell.com
Pages dell.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, VideoObject | dell.com/ | Plain | none | 6.2s |
Listing/{slug}/{slug}/shopStructured data: Organization, VideoObject | none | Plain | none | 20.5s |
Other/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}Structured data: Organization, VideoObject, ImageObject, WebPage | none | Plain | none | 5.0s |
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