Cookbook·Electronics·expert.de
Scrape category pages on expert.de
The call that returns category pages from expert.de today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026.
99.6% success · Aug 2026Browser on 67% of callsStandard price · 1 credit
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; 66.7% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 3.0s.
Among the 28 electronics sites in the Cookbook, expert.de sits at 13 of 28 by success rate; the category median is 99.5%. Its median answer of 3.0s is slower than the category median of 2.0s. 14 of the 28 accept the plain token; this one does on some pages only.
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&country=DE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.expert.de%2Fshop%2Fexample-page%2Fexample-page"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.expert.de/shop/example-page/example-page', {'country': 'DE'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.expert.de/shop/example-page/example-page', { country: 'DE' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | DE | 99.9% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 100%; calls without a country succeed at -%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 100%, JavaScript-token calls at 99.9%. Both work; start without the browser and switch per URL pattern where the table below shows it. |
URL patterns accounts fetch
| Pattern | Share of successes | JavaScript token | Country | Query parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/shop/{slug}/{slug} | 88.8% | 66.8% | DE | none |
/{slug} | 11.3% | 66.7% | DE | none |
Fields you get
A listing page carries the items of one section, each with a title, a link and often a price, plus the pagination. The detail lives on the item page; fetch it only for the items you need.
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
999: 41.7% of failures 999 is not a standard HTTP answer; the site sent it as a refusal. Treat it like a block: retry once with the JavaScript token and the country the successful calls use, then stop.
591, 517, 529: 52.8% of failures together A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.
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 3.0s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape expert.de?
It depends on the page. Plain-token calls succeed at 100%, JavaScript-token calls at 99.9%; the URL pattern table shows which paths accounts fetch with a browser.
How much does a expert.de page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. expert.de is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for expert.de?
DE: that is what 99.9% of successful calls use.
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