Scrape product pages on staples.com
The call that returns product pages from staples.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
92.9% success · Aug 2026Browser on 21% of callsStandard price · 1 credit
About staples.com
staples.com describes itself as “Staples offers free next-day delivery when you spend $35+ on office supplies & furniture, ink, printing services, computers, & promotional products for business”.
Its home page declares 3 languages: fr-ca, en-us, en-ca.
Its sitemaps list 229,553 URLs across 17 files (staples-atom-feed-www-staples-com-en_us, staples-custom-sitemap-deals, staples-sitemap-www-staples-com-en_us-bundle-1, staples-sitemap-www-staples-com-en_us-class-1, staples-sitemap-www-staples-com-en_us-custom-sitemapaboutus, staples-sitemap-www-staples-com-en_us-custom-sitemapcontenthub). 229,508 of the 229,528 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.
Its robots.txt names 7 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /page/, /builder2/, /rik/.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 92.9%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 21.3% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 2.9s.
Among the 20 ecommerce sites in the Cookbook, staples.com ranks 17 of 20 by success rate; the category median is 96.3%. Its median answer of 2.9s sits at the category median of 2.9s. 9 of the 20 accept the plain token; this one does on some pages only.
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.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.staples.com%2Fprod%2Fexample-page"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.staples.com/prod/example-page') html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.staples.com/prod/example-page');
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | leave unset | Most successful calls set no country (89.3%) and succeed at 95.9%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 93.5% and make up 81.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/prod/{slug} | 98.3% | 0.0% | none | none |
/products/{slug} | 1.8% | 71.4% | CA | listId |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on staples.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:
WebSite - Other:
BreadcrumbList
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
403: 61.0% 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: 13.7% 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.
408: 11.1% of failures 408 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.
591: 9.3% 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 2.9s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape staples.com?
No. 93.5% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 81.5% of their traffic without a browser.
How much does a staples.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. staples.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for staples.com?
None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.
Other pages on staples.com
Pages staples.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: WebSite | staples.com/ | Plain | none | 6.1s |
Listing/deals/{slug}/{slug} | staples.com/deals/perk/BI1838466 | Plain | none | 22.5s |
Other/{slug}/{slug}Structured data: BreadcrumbList | none | Plain | none | 8.1s |
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