Scrape transfermarkt.de

About transfermarkt.de

transfermarkt.de describes itself as “Transfermarkt: the football portal with transfers, market values, rumours and statistics”.

Its home page declares 12 languages: de, de-lu, de-at, de-ch, tr, it-ch, it, pl, en-gb, en-ie, es, es-es.

Its robots.txt disallows 2 paths. It asks crawlers to wait 2s between requests.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 92.2%. 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 31.6s.

Among the 20 sports and outdoor sites in the Cookbook, transfermarkt.de ranks 18 of 20 by success rate; the category median is 99.2%. Its median answer of 31.6s is slower than the category median of 7.1s. 12 of the 20 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&country=US&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.transfermarkt.de%2F"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.transfermarkt.de/', {'country': 'US'})
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.transfermarkt.de/', { country: 'US' });

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on transfermarkt.de, 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: NewsArticle

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 31.6s.

Questions

Other pages on transfermarkt.de

Pages transfermarkt.de 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.