Cookbook·Entertainment·netflix.com
Scrape netflix.com
The call that returns the homepage from netflix.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
97.0% success · Aug 2026Browser neededStandard price · 1 credit
About netflix.com
netflix.com describes itself as “Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more”.
Its sitemaps list 3,434 URLs across 19 files (81737832, 81676358, 81977509, 80135640, 81473627, 81473628).
Its robots.txt names 1 sitemap and disallows 12 paths, among them /accountstatus, /authenticate, /autologin.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 97.0%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 99.3% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 4.4s.
Among the 5 entertainment sites in the Cookbook, netflix.com ranks 5 of 5 by success rate; the category median is 99.6%. Its median answer of 4.4s is slower than the category median of 1.8s. 3 of the 5 accept the plain token; this one needs the JavaScript token.
The call
The most common shape of URL the accounts fetch, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real one from the site.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_JS_TOKEN&country=US&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2F"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_JS_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.netflix.com/', {'country': 'US'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_JS_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.netflix.com/', { country: 'US' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | US | 97.4% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 98.9%; calls without a country succeed at 100%. |
javascript | use the JavaScript token | 99.6% of calls use the JavaScript token and succeed at 98.9%. The plain token was tried too rarely (5 calls) to say anything about it. |
URL patterns accounts fetch
| Pattern | Share of successes | JavaScript token | Country | Query parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/ | 83.8% | 100% | US | none |
/search | 3.5% | 100% | US | keywords, query |
/en/{slug} | 2.8% | 100% | US | none |
/title/{id} | 2.3% | 100% | US | none |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on netflix.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:
- Detail page:
TVSeries - Profile:
Movie
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
999: 53.8% 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.
529, 591: 46.2% of failures together A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.
Run it on a schedule
The median answer on this site is 4.4s. Push a URL list to the Crawler with a callback for anything larger than a few thousand pages a day; it paces the calls and retries what the site refuses.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape netflix.com?
Yes for most pages. JavaScript-token calls succeed at 98.9% while plain-token calls reach 100%.
How much does a netflix.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. netflix.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for netflix.com?
US: that is what 97.4% of successful calls use.
Other pages on netflix.com
Pages netflix.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/ | netflix.com/ | Plain | none | 2.7s |
Detail page/ad-en/{slug}/{id}Structured data: TVSeries | netflix.com/ad-en/title/80135640 | Plain | none | 4.6s |
Profile/in/{slug}/{id}Structured data: Movie | netflix.com/in/title/81737845 | Plain | none | 3.8s |
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