Scrape category pages on zooplus.de
The call that returns category pages from zooplus.de today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
About zooplus.de
zooplus.de describes itself as “Order pet supplies & pet food cheaply online at zooplus ✓ 12% new customer discount from €50 ✓ Free shipping from €39 ✓ Attractive offers!”.
Its sitemaps list 37,196 URLs across 10 files (post-sitemap, page-sitemap, agentic_discovery). 21,971 of the 25,277 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.
Its robots.txt names 1 sitemap and disallows 3 paths. It asks crawlers to wait 5s between requests.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.8%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.7% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.3s.
Among the 10 pet supplies sites in the Cookbook, zooplus.de ranks 3 of 10 by success rate; the category median is 99.2%. Its median answer of 1.3s is faster than the category median of 2.0s. 8 of the 10 accept the plain token, this one among them.
The call
Category and listing 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 section URL from the site.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&country=GB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zooplus.de%2Fshop%2Fhunde%2Fnerven"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('https://www.zooplus.de/shop/hunde/nerven', {'country': 'GB'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('https://www.zooplus.de/shop/hunde/nerven', { country: 'GB' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | GB | 99.6% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 99.9%; calls without a country succeed at -%. |
javascript | leave unset | Plain-token calls succeed at 99.9% and make up 99.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/shop/{slug}/{slug} | 100% | 0.0% | GB | yyz |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on zooplus.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:
- Listing:
CollectionPage, WebSite, OnlineStore, BreadcrumbList, ItemList, Product - Article:
Article, BreadcrumbList
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
Run it on a schedule
Walk the listings on a cadence to find new items, then push the item URLs to the Crawler with a callback; it paces the calls and retries what the site refuses. The median answer on this site is 1.3s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape zooplus.de?
No. 99.9% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 99.6% of their traffic without a browser.
How much does a zooplus.de page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. zooplus.de is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for zooplus.de?
GB: that is what 99.6% of successful calls use.
Other pages on zooplus.de
Pages zooplus.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.
| Page | Example | Token | Country | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Home/ | zooplus.de/ | Plain | none | 2.8s |
Detail page/{slug}/offer/{slug} | none | Plain | none | 9.2s |
Listing/shop/{slug}/{slug}Structured data: CollectionPage, WebSite, OnlineStore, BreadcrumbList, ItemList, Product | zooplus.de/shop/hunde/nerven | Plain | none | 3.7s |
Article/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}Structured data: Article, BreadcrumbList | none | Plain | none | 3.4s |
Other/{slug}/{slug}/{slug} | none | Plain | none | 21.0s |