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Hobby Lobby scraper API for AI agents and code

datawebot returns Hobby Lobby search results as structured JSON, with the same fields for every shop: title, price, original price, availability, rating, image and link. It runs from your AI agent over MCP or from code over REST on hobbylobby.com in United States, at 5 credits per search page, and failed requests are free.

Fields you get

Every Hobby Lobby product comes back in these fields; a field is null when the page doesn't show it. Each endpoint below also lists its raw record schema.

Field	Type	Description
`product_id`	string or null	Opaque id. Pass it to get_product (or capability "product") to read the product again.
`title`	string	Product title as the shop shows it.
`url`	string or null	The product page on the shop.
`shop`	string or null	The shop’s hostname, without www.
`price`	object or null	amount (number), currency (ISO 4217, or null when the shop doesn’t say) and text (the shop’s own wording when it is the same amount, else null).
`original_price`	object or null	The price before a discount, in the same shape as price.
`rating`	number or null	Average rating, on the shop’s own scale.
`review_count`	integer or null	Number of reviews or ratings.
`image_url`	string or null	Main product image.
`availability`	string or null	in_stock, out_of_stock, or the shop’s own stock wording.
`sponsored`	boolean or null	true for an ad the shop marks as sponsored; null when the page doesn’t say.

How to run it

From your agent, after connecting it once with the setup prompt (agent setup), ask in plain words:

Agent prompt

Use datawebot to extract https://www.hobbylobby.com/search?query=blue%20cotton%20yarn and give me each product's title, price and link as JSON.

From code, send one request with your API key. The answer has the same shape for every shop; if it says "status": "working", read it again with GET /v1/requests/{id}.

POST /v1/requests

curl https://api.datawebot.com/v1/requests \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DATAWEBOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"capability":"endpoint","endpoint":"hobbylobby.search_items","url":"https://www.hobbylobby.com/search?query=blue%20cotton%20yarn","format":"structured"}'

Search

Hobby Lobby (hobbylobby.com, US) keyword search (https://www.hobbylobby.com/search?query=<words>): the first main-grid page only (12 cards observed), no paging, filters or sorting. Title, link, current card price or price range, image. Card currency and availability are not stated and stay null.

ID: hobbylobby.search_items
Version: 1
Price: 5 credits / page
State: Available
Typical time: About 30 s (estimate)

What it does

Reads one search results page (or up to the page limit) and returns one record per product card, in page order. Works on hobbylobby.com; other hosts are rejected before anything runs.

Input

One page URL per request, shaped like https://www.hobbylobby.com/search?query=blue%20cotton%20yarn.

Price

5 credits / page. Failed requests are free; a page that loaded but had nothing on it still costs credits. Set max_credits to refuse anything dearer before it runs.

Output

The default, "format": "structured". Every shop answers in the same fields, mapped from the page to the product_summary@1 schema. Fields are null when the page doesn't show them, and a record that can't be mapped is read best-effort from its raw fields. Products are in products, up to 50 a page; follow next_cursor with GET /v1/requests/{id} (MCP: get_results).

Field	Type	Description
`product_id`	string or null	Opaque id. Pass it to get_product (or capability "product") to read the product again.
`title`	string	Product title as the shop shows it.
`url`	string or null	The product page on the shop.
`shop`	string or null	The shop’s hostname, without www.
`price`	object or null	amount (number), currency (ISO 4217, or null when the shop doesn’t say) and text (the shop’s own wording when it is the same amount, else null).
`original_price`	object or null	The price before a discount, in the same shape as price.
`rating`	number or null	Average rating, on the shop’s own scale.
`review_count`	integer or null	Number of reviews or ratings.
`image_url`	string or null	Main product image.
`availability`	string or null	in_stock, out_of_stock, or the shop’s own stock wording.
`sponsored`	boolean or null	true for an ad the shop marks as sponsored; null when the page doesn’t say.

Answer shape (types, not real data)

{
  "request_id": "string",
  "status": "done",
  "products": [
    {
      "product_id": "string or null",
      "title": "string",
      "url": "string or null",
      "shop": "string or null",
      "price": {
        "amount": "number",
        "currency": "string or null",
        "text": "string or null"
      },
      "original_price": {
        "amount": "number",
        "currency": "string or null",
        "text": "string or null"
      },
      "rating": "number or null",
      "review_count": "integer or null",
      "image_url": "string or null",
      "availability": "string or null",
      "sponsored": "boolean or null"
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "string or null",
  "meta": {
    "as_of": "date-time",
    "country": "string",
    "credits_used": "integer",
    "credits_left": "integer"
  }
}

Over the Jobs API, GET /v1/jobs/{id}/results?format=structured returns the full product_summary@1 records.

With "format": "raw", the answer keeps the structured fields and adds raw: this endpoint's own records, unchanged, one per item, in the schema below. It is the data the endpoint extracted from the page, not the page's HTML. Same price as structured.

Field	Type	Description
`product_id`	string required	Pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64}$
`url`	string (uri) required	Pattern ^https://www\.hobbylobby\.com/(?:[^/\s]+/)*p/[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64}$
`title`	string required	—
`price`	string or null required	Current card price when one amount is shown; null for a range
`price_range`	object or null required	Current card price range (variants), when shown
`price_raw`	string required	The current price text as displayed
`currency`	null required	Not stated on the card; '$' is not ISO evidence
`currency_symbol`	"$" required	—
`availability`	null required	—
`image`	string or null required	—
`position`	integer required	Minimum 1
`page`	1 required	—

One raw record (types, not real data)

{
  "product_id": "string",
  "url": "string (uri)",
  "title": "string",
  "price": "string or null",
  "price_range": "object or null",
  "price_raw": "string",
  "currency": null,
  "currency_symbol": "$",
  "availability": null,
  "image": "string or null",
  "position": "integer",
  "page": 1
}

Raw needs this endpoint: a search with format: "raw" doesn't fall back to shopping search, and answers raw_unavailable where no endpoint can run. Over the Jobs API, results are raw by default; format=both gives each raw record with its structured form.

Request

Run exactly this endpoint with capability: "endpoint"; there is no fallback, and a failed run is free. Set format to "raw" for the raw records too. For a keyword instead of a URL, search_products with this shop as site builds the search URL, tries the shop's endpoint first and then shopping search.

POST /v1/requests

curl https://api.datawebot.com/v1/requests \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DATAWEBOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"capability":"endpoint","endpoint":"hobbylobby.search_items","url":"https://www.hobbylobby.com/search?query=blue%20cotton%20yarn","format":"structured"}'

MCP submit_job

submit_job {
  "endpoint": "hobbylobby.search_items",
  "url": "https://www.hobbylobby.com/search?query=blue%20cotton%20yarn",
  "format": "structured"
}

If the answer says "status": "working", read it again with GET /v1/requests/{id} (MCP: get_results) after check_after_seconds.

Product details

One Hobby Lobby (US) product variant page (.../p/<id>): title, SKU, the selected variant's price in the page's currency (USD), selected color, canonical parent product and images. Availability only when the page states it; other variants are not listed.

ID: hobbylobby.product_details
Version: 1
Price: 1 credit / page
State: Paused for maintenance
Typical time: About 30 s (estimate)

What it does

Reads one product page and returns that product. Works on hobbylobby.com; other hosts are rejected before anything runs.

Input

One page URL per request, shaped like https://www.hobbylobby.com/yarn-needle-art/yarn-tools/yarn/334-denim-blue---print-i-love-this-cotton-yarn/p/80787002.

Price

1 credit / page. Failed requests are free; a page that loaded but had nothing on it still costs credits. Set max_credits to refuse anything dearer before it runs.

Output

The default, "format": "structured". Every shop answers in the same fields, mapped from the page to the product@1 schema. Fields are null when the page doesn't show them, and a record that can't be mapped is read best-effort from its raw fields. The product is in product.

Field	Type	Description
`product_id`	string or null	Opaque id. Pass it to get_product (or capability "product") to read the product again.
`title`	string	Product title as the shop shows it.
`url`	string or null	The product page on the shop.
`shop`	string or null	The shop’s hostname, without www.
`price`	object or null	amount (number), currency (ISO 4217, or null when the shop doesn’t say) and text (the shop’s own wording when it is the same amount, else null).
`original_price`	object or null	The price before a discount, in the same shape as price.
`rating`	number or null	Average rating, on the shop’s own scale.
`review_count`	integer or null	Number of reviews or ratings.
`image_url`	string or null	Main product image.
`availability`	string or null	in_stock, out_of_stock, or the shop’s own stock wording.
`sponsored`	boolean or null	true for an ad the shop marks as sponsored; null when the page doesn’t say.

product.details, when the shop's page maps to product@1:

Field	Type	Description
`brand`	string or null	Brand as the page names it.
`category_path`	array of strings	Breadcrumb categories, top first.
`description`	string or null	Plain-text description.
`feature_bullets`	array of strings	Listed features.
`price_min, price_max`	number or null	Lowest and highest variant price.
`discount_label`	string or null	Discount wording, such as "-20%".
`stock`	integer or null	Units in stock, when the page shows a number.
`sold_count, sold_count_basis`	integer or null; "total", "monthly" or null	Units sold, and whether that is a total or per month.
`identifiers`	array of {type, value}	asin, parent_asin, walmart_item_id, gtin, mpn, isbn or source_sku.
`specs_raw`	array of {name, value}	The specification table as shown.
`images, image_count`	array of {url, alt}; integer	Every product image.
`option_names`	array of strings	Option names such as Size or Colour.
`variants, variant_count`	array (up to 100); integer or null	Each variant: id, name, options, sku, final_price, price_before_discount, discount_label, available, stock, image_url.
`seller`	object or null	id, name, url and type (official or marketplace).
`rating_scale`	number or null	The top of the rating scale, such as 5.
`warnings`	array of strings	Fields the page didn’t give, such as currency_missing.

Answer shape (types, not real data)

{
  "request_id": "string",
  "status": "done",
  "product": {
    "product_id": "string or null",
    "title": "string",
    "url": "string or null",
    "shop": "string or null",
    "price": {
      "amount": "number",
      "currency": "string or null",
      "text": "string or null"
    },
    "original_price": {
      "amount": "number",
      "currency": "string or null",
      "text": "string or null"
    },
    "rating": "number or null",
    "review_count": "integer or null",
    "image_url": "string or null",
    "availability": "string or null",
    "sponsored": "boolean or null",
    "details": {
      "brand": "string or null",
      "variants": [
        "…"
      ],
      "…": "…"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "as_of": "date-time",
    "country": "string",
    "credits_used": "integer",
    "credits_left": "integer"
  }
}

Over the Jobs API, GET /v1/jobs/{id}/results?format=structured returns the full product@1 records.

Field	Type	Description
`product_id`	string required	The selected variant's /p/<id>, not the canonical parent
`url`	string (uri) required	Pattern ^https://www\.hobbylobby\.com/(?:[^/\s]+/)*p/[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64}$
`sku`	string required	—
`title`	string required	—
`canonical_parent_url`	string or null required	Pattern ^https://www\.hobbylobby\.com/(?:[^/\s]+/)*p/[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64}$
`canonical_parent_id`	string or null required	Pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64}$
`price`	string required	Pattern ^[0-9]{1,9}\.[0-9]{2}$
`currency`	string required	Pattern ^[A-Z]{3}$
`availability`	"in_stock" \| "out_of_stock" \| null required	schema.org InStock/OutOfStock on the exact offer only; null when not stated
`availability_raw`	string or null required	—
`add_to_cart_enabled`	boolean required	UI button state only; not availability or purchase eligibility
`selected_variant`	object required	—
`variants_enumerated`	false required	—
`images`	array required	—

One raw record (types, not real data)

{
  "product_id": "string",
  "url": "string (uri)",
  "sku": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "canonical_parent_url": "string or null",
  "canonical_parent_id": "string or null",
  "price": "string",
  "currency": "string",
  "availability": "in_stock | out_of_stock | null",
  "availability_raw": "string or null",
  "add_to_cart_enabled": "boolean",
  "selected_variant": "object",
  "variants_enumerated": false,
  "images": "array"
}

Over the Jobs API, results are raw by default; format=both gives each raw record with its structured form.

Request

Read a product page with capability: "product"; it runs this endpoint for the page's shop. Set format to "raw" for the raw records too.

POST /v1/requests

curl https://api.datawebot.com/v1/requests \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DATAWEBOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"capability":"product","url":"https://www.hobbylobby.com/yarn-needle-art/yarn-tools/yarn/334-denim-blue---print-i-love-this-cotton-yarn/p/80787002","format":"structured"}'

MCP get_product

get_product {
  "url": "https://www.hobbylobby.com/yarn-needle-art/yarn-tools/yarn/334-denim-blue---print-i-love-this-cotton-yarn/p/80787002",
  "format": "structured"
}

If the answer says "status": "working", read it again with GET /v1/requests/{id} (MCP: get_results) after check_after_seconds.

Limits

One page URL per request, on hobbylobby.com only; other hosts are rejected before anything runs.
Prices and stock are read when the request runs (meta.as_of); datawebot keeps no price history, so schedule and store repeat reads yourself.
Fields the page doesn't show come back null; nothing is filled in or guessed.
Up to 30 requests a minute per account.
Paused for maintenance: product details.

Questions about the Hobby Lobby scraper API

Does Hobby Lobby have an official API?

datawebot does not use one. It reads Hobby Lobby's pages and returns them as structured JSON, so you need no Hobby Lobby developer account or partner key. Whether Hobby Lobby offers its own API, and on what terms, is for Hobby Lobby to say.

Can I scrape Hobby Lobby with Python?

Yes. Send the POST /v1/requests call shown on this page from Python with any HTTP client, such as requests or httpx: the same JSON body, with your API key in the Authorization header. The products come back in the answer's products field (product for a product page).

Is it legal to scrape Hobby Lobby?

It depends on where you are, Hobby Lobby's terms and what you do with the data. You stay responsible for how you use what datawebot returns. This is not legal advice; read our guide to robots.txt and legal considerations, and ask a lawyer about your case.

What does a Hobby Lobby scraper API call cost?

5 credits per search page. Failed requests are free; a page that loaded but had nothing on it still costs credits. Every account starts with 200 free credits, and credit packs start at 10,000 credits for $10, with no subscription.

Start with 200 free credits

Connect your agent with one setup prompt, or create an API key, and run Hobby Lobby requests right away. No card and no subscription.

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