Cookbook·News and media·rtve.es
Scrape search results on rtve.es
The call that returns search results from rtve.es today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
98.2% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit
About rtve.es
rtve.es describes itself as “News, sports, current affairs, albums, series and programmes, and the latest from Spain and the world”.
Its sitemaps list 196,449 URLs across 7 files (s-news). 1,103 of the 196,449 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.
Its robots.txt names 13 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /components/, /contenidos/, /bruce/.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 98.2%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.2% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.7s.
Among the 74 news and media sites in the Cookbook, rtve.es ranks 46 of 74 by success rate; the category median is 98.9%. Its median answer of 1.7s is faster than the category median of 2.3s. 58 of the 74 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&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtve.es%2Fexample-section%2Fs%2Fexample-page"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.rtve.es/example-section/s/example-page') html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.rtve.es/example-section/s/example-page');
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | leave unset | Most successful calls set no country (100%) and succeed at 98.2%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 98.2% and make up 99.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/{slug}/s/{slug} | 100% | 0.0% | none | none |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on rtve.es, 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 - Article:
BreadcrumbList, NewsArticle - Other:
BreadcrumbList
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
410: 39.3% of failures 410 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.
403: 14.8% of failures A 403 is the site refusing the exit. Set the country the successful calls use and retry once; a second 403 means the URL itself is protected.
0: 9.8% 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.
500: 34.4% 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 1.7s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape rtve.es?
No. 98.2% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 99.9% of their traffic without a browser.
How much does a rtve.es page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. rtve.es is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for rtve.es?
None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.
Other pages on rtve.es
Pages rtve.es 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 | rtve.es/ | Plain | none | 2.4s |
Article/{slug}/{id}/{slug}Structured data: BreadcrumbList, NewsArticle | none | Plain | none | 1.4s |
Other/{slug}/{id}/{slug}Structured data: BreadcrumbList | none | Plain | none | 2.8s |
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