E-commerce
The Home Depot Scraper
homedepot.com
Home Depot is served through a dedicated plugin endpoint rather than the generic page fetch. Give it a query and it returns the products already parsed: item ID, title, brand and model number, price and currency, the star rating and review count, an image and a clean product URL. Sort by relevance, price, rating or best sellers, filter by price, and collect more across pages. Home Depot puts its search behind an Akamai JavaScript wall that a plain fetch cannot clear - handled for you. Across 1,100 varied searches it succeeded 96.3% of the time at about seven seconds a call.
What you can extract
- Item ID, title and a product URL
- Brand and model number
- Price and currency
- Star rating and review count
- Product image
Dedicated endpoints
/marketplace/homedepot-search A product search on Home Depot
Home Depot products for a query: a products array with itemId, title, brand, modelNumber, price, currency, rating, reviewCount, image and url, plus totalResults. Sort, filter with min_price/max_price, and page with max_results.
How to scrape it
curl -X POST \
-H "X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key: $SU_API_KEY" \
"https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/marketplace/homedepot-search?query=cordless%20drill"import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/marketplace/homedepot-search",
headers={"X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key": SU_API_KEY},
params={"query": "cordless drill"},
)
print(resp.text)import { ScrapeUnblockerClient } from 'scrapeunblocker';
const su = new ScrapeUnblockerClient({ apiKey: process.env.SU_API_KEY });
const data = await su.homedepotSearch('cordless drill', {
sort: 'top_rated',
maxResults: 24,
});
console.log(data);Requests are POST and take their parameters in the query string. Browser rendering always happens - there is no flag to enable.
Frequently asked questions
Is it legal to scrape The Home Depot?
Collecting publicly available Home Depot data such as product prices, brands and star ratings is lawful in many jurisdictions, but the rules depend on your country, the data you collect and how you use it. ScrapeUnblocker returns the public page; what you collect and how you use it is your responsibility.
How do I scrape The Home Depot without getting blocked?
The Home Depot protects its search with Akamai. ScrapeUnblocker renders the page in a real browser, rotates residential and ISP exits and handles challenges, and the plugin returns the products as parsed JSON. In ScrapeUnblocker's benchmark it returned real content on 96.3% of 1,100 calls, about 7.4s per call.
What Home Depot data can I get?
The Home Depot plugin returns a products array for your query: item ID, title and a product URL, brand and model number, price and currency, star rating and review count, and a product image, plus totalResults for the search. You can sort the results, filter with min_price and max_price, and collect more products with max_results.
Do I need a Home Depot API or account?
No. The Home Depot plugin returns product search results as JSON without a Home Depot API account or login. Send a query such as cordless drill with your ScrapeUnblocker key and you get item IDs, model numbers, prices, ratings and product URLs back, with no HTML for you to parse.
Can I monitor Home Depot prices at scale?
Yes. Calls run in parallel up to your plan's concurrency limit: 20 to 100 concurrent requests on Pay as you go, Starter and Pro, and 200 to 400 on Business, Scale and Ultimate. Run one search per query, collect more products per call with max_results, and repeat the searches on a schedule to follow price changes across a category.
How much does it cost to scrape The Home Depot?
Each request costs 1 credit, from EUR 1.00 per 1,000 requests on pay as you go to about EUR 0.55 per 1,000 on the Ultimate plan. Home Depot plugin calls draw from the same plan quota as the rest of the API. Blocks, timeouts and errors on ScrapeUnblocker's side are not billed, and the free trial includes 500 requests with no card.
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