Cookbook·Industrial supply·ferguson.com
Scrape ferguson.com
The call that returns the homepage from ferguson.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026.
97.8% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 97.8%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.6% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 14.4s.
Among the 15 industrial supply sites in the Cookbook, ferguson.com sits at 7 of 15 by success rate; the category median is 97.5%. Its median answer of 14.4s is slower than the category median of 1.8s. 9 of the 15 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=US&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ferguson.com%2F"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.ferguson.com/', {'country': 'US'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.ferguson.com/', { country: 'US' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | US | 69.2% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 39.2%; calls without a country succeed at 55.6%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 55.6%, JavaScript-token calls at 39.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/ | 55.3% | 92.8% | US | none |
/product/{slug}/{slug} | 24.5% | 0.0% | none | bvstate, searchIndex, qll |
/category/{slug} | 13.3% | 100% | US | srsltid |
/category/{slug}/{slug} | 2.5% | 100% | US | prefn1, prefv1, srsltid |
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:
403: 49.2% 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: 7.6% 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.
591: 29.7% 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 14.4s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape ferguson.com?
It depends on the page. Plain-token calls succeed at 55.6%, JavaScript-token calls at 39.2%; the URL pattern table shows which paths accounts fetch with a browser.
How much does a ferguson.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. ferguson.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for ferguson.com?
US: that is what 69.2% of successful calls use.
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