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.
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.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&country=US&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hobbylobby.com%2Fstores%2Fsearch"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.hobbylobby.com/stores/search', {'country': 'US'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.hobbylobby.com/stores/search', { country: 'US' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | US | 99.8% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 99.9%; calls without a country succeed at 100%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-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
| Pattern | Share of successes | JavaScript token | Country | Query parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/stores/search | 94.3% | 0.0% | US | q |
/weekly-ad | 4.8% | 0.0% | US | none |
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:
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.
| Page | Example | Token | Country | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Home/Structured data: Organization, WebSite | hobbylobby.com/ | Plain | none | 3.0s |