Cookbook·Ecommerce·officeworks.com.au

Scrape category pages on officeworks.com.au

The call that returns category pages from officeworks.com.au today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026.

96.3% success · Aug 2026Browser on 56% of callsStandard price · 1 credit

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 96.3%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 55.6% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 10.6s.

Among the 20 ecommerce sites in the Cookbook, officeworks.com.au sits at 10 of 20 by success rate; the category median is 96.3%. Its median answer of 10.6s is slower than the category median of 2.9s. 9 of the 20 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.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_JS_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.officeworks.com.au%2Fshop%2Fexample-page%2Fp"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryleave unsetMost successful calls set no country (100%) and succeed at 96.9%.
javascriptuse the JavaScript tokenJavaScript-token calls succeed at 99.0% against 93.2% for the plain token, and 64.0% of calls use it.

URL patterns accounts fetch

PatternShare of successesJavaScript tokenCountryQuery parameters
/shop/{slug}/p58.5%99.1%nonenone
/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}41.5%0.0%nonepartNumbers, productSku

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:

405: 85.8% of failures 405 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.
0: 8.0% 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.

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 10.6s.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape officeworks.com.au?

Yes for most pages. JavaScript-token calls succeed at 99.0% while plain-token calls reach 93.2%.

How much does a officeworks.com.au page cost on Crawlbase?

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

Which country should I set for officeworks.com.au?

None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.

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