Scrape product pages on thebrick.com
The call that returns product pages from thebrick.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
About thebrick.com
thebrick.com describes itself as “Saving You More at The Brick, with over 220 stores across Canada. Shop now for great deals on furniture, mattresses, appliances, TVs and electronics”.
Its home page declares 2 languages: fr, en-ca.
Its sitemaps list 17,667 URLs across 19 files (agentic_discovery, products_1, products_2, products_3, products_4, products_5). 17,665 of the 17,665 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.
Its robots.txt names 1 sitemap and disallows 12 paths, among them /admin, /cart, /orders. It asks crawlers to wait 10s between requests.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.5%. 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 3.9s.
Among the 17 home improvement sites in the Cookbook, thebrick.com ranks 6 of 17 by success rate; the category median is 97.5%. Its median answer of 3.9s is slower than the category median of 2.0s. 11 of the 17 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.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebrick.com%2Fproducts%2Fehf-r5115"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.thebrick.com/products/ehf-r5115') html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.thebrick.com/products/ehf-r5115');
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | leave unset | Most successful calls set no country (99.9%) and succeed at 99.6%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 99.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/products/{slug} | 99.0% | 1.0% | none | variant |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on thebrick.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
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
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 3.9s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape thebrick.com?
No. 99.6% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 99.9% of their traffic without a browser.
How much does a thebrick.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. thebrick.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for thebrick.com?
None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.
Other pages on thebrick.com
Pages thebrick.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 | thebrick.com/ | Plain | none | 4.1s |
Detail page/products/{slug} | thebrick.com/products/ehf-r5115 | Plain | none | 17.3s |