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Scrape search results on hobbylobby.com

The call that returns search results from hobbylobby.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.

99.8% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit

About hobbylobby.com

hobbylobby.com describes itself as “Hobby Lobby arts and crafts stores offer the best in project, party and home supplies. Visit us in person or online for a wide selection of products!”.

Its sitemaps list 57 URLs across 1 file. 57 of the 57 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt names 1 sitemap and disallows 11 paths, among them /cart/, /checkout/, /my-account/. It asks crawlers to wait 10s between requests.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.8%. 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 1.0s.

Among the 17 home improvement sites in the Cookbook, hobbylobby.com ranks 3 of 17 by success rate; the category median is 97.5%. Its median answer of 1.0s is faster than the category median of 2.0s. 11 of the 17 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Search result pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder query with your own.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&country=US&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hobbylobby.com%2Fstores%2Fsearch"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryUS99.8% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 99.9%; calls without a country succeed at 100%.
javascriptleave unsetPlain-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

PatternShare of successesJavaScript tokenCountryQuery parameters
/stores/search94.3%0.0%USq
/weekly-ad4.8%0.0%USnone

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on hobbylobby.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

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

999: 25.0% of failures 999 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.
591: 75.0% of failures A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.

Run it on a schedule

Search is the expensive side of a site. Keep the query list short, run it on a cadence through the Crawler with a callback, and fetch afterwards only the result pages you need. The median answer on this site is 1.0s.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape hobbylobby.com?

No. 99.9% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 100% of their traffic without a browser.

How much does a hobbylobby.com page cost on Crawlbase?

1 credit without a browser. hobbylobby.com is in the standard tier.

Which country should I set for hobbylobby.com?

US: that is what 99.8% of successful calls use.

Other pages on hobbylobby.com

Pages hobbylobby.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.

PageExampleTokenCountryMedian
Home
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Structured data: Organization, WebSite
hobbylobby.com/Plainnone3.0s
Site names identify the pages a recipe fetches. Crawlbase is not affiliated with any site listed. Use recipes within the acceptable use policy.Measured numbers from August 2026, refreshed monthly