Cookbook·Automotive·rockauto.com

Scrape product pages on rockauto.com

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

100% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 100%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.0% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 948ms.

Among the 16 automotive sites in the Cookbook, rockauto.com sits at 2 of 16 by success rate; the category median is 99.3%. Its median answer of 948ms is faster than the category median of 1.9s. 12 of the 16 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.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rockauto.com%2Fen%2Fexample-page"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryleave unsetMost successful calls set no country (99.8%) and succeed at 100%.
javascriptleave unsetPlain-token calls succeed at 100% 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
/en/{slug}100%0.0%nonepk, cc, pt

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:

999: 66.7% of failures 999 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.
591: 33.3% 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 948ms.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape rockauto.com?

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

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

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

Which country should I set for rockauto.com?

None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.

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