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How to scrape Target

Target (target.com) is an online store. This guide is built from our own checks of its public pages: what the pages contain, whether our requests get through right now, and the request settings that worked.

Intermittent

7 of 23 of our checks passed in the last 7 days (30.4%).

Last check 2026-10-13 18:04 UTC · last pass 2026-10-13 18:04 UTC · checked with our own requests, never customer data.

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Extraction recipe

The API returns the rendered HTML of the page. Select the fields you need with extract rules (CSS selectors) or parse the HTML on your side. The recipe below is a set of Scrape API extract rules: we ran it through our API on two real Target pages with the settings on this page and kept only the fields that came back on both. It is checked again every week, and hidden if it stops working.

Product pages

Validated 2026-10-13
FieldTypeExample
titletextBergHOFF Studio 2Pc Kitchen Scissors 8.5"
descriptiontextRead reviews and buy BergHOFF Studio 2Pc Kitchen Scissors 8.5" at T...
imageURLhttps://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_50cf236c-cc31-4251-...
urlURLhttps://www.target.com/p/berghoff-studio-2pc-kitchen-scissors-8-5/-...
review_countnumber (as text)15

Examples from www.target.com/p/berghoff-essentials-kitchen-scissors-with-... on 2026-10-13, shortened.

Sample output (real, trimmed)

{
    "title": "BergHOFF Studio 2Pc Kitchen Scissors 8.5\"",
    "description": "Read reviews and buy BergHOFF Studio 2Pc Kitchen Scissors 8.5\" at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.",
    "image": "https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_50cf236c-cc31-4251-a36b-d2d963e59c55",
    "url": "https://www.target.com/p/berghoff-studio-2pc-kitchen-scissors-8-5/-/A-85658762",
    "review_count": "15"
}
extract_rules (5 rules)
{
    "title": {
        "selector": "h1",
        "type": "text"
    },
    "description": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:description\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content"
    },
    "image": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:image\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content"
    },
    "url": {
        "selector": "link[rel=\"canonical\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "href"
    },
    "review_count": {
        "selector": "[data-test='rating-stars'] [data-test='text-quill-insert-0']",
        "type": "text"
    }
}

Code

Complete scripts: set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable and run them as they are. Each one sends the settings on this page and the extraction recipe, prints the extracted JSON, and prints the credits the request cost (the Ujb-Credits response header) on stderr. A non-200 answer stops the script with the API's error message.

Product pages

Runs the recipe on the two pages it was validated on, one after the other.

target_detail_sdk.py pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Scrape Target product pages with the Ujeebu Scrape API.
# Settings and extract rules validated on real pages on 2026-10-13 (Ujeebu site guide).
# Uses the official SDK ujeebu-python 0.1.5: pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Run: UJEEBU_API_KEY=your_key python3 target_detail_sdk.py

import json
import os
import sys
import time

import requests
from ujeebu_python import UjeebuClient

API_KEY = os.environ.get("UJEEBU_API_KEY")
URLS = [
    "https://www.target.com/p/berghoff-essentials-kitchen-scissors-with-integrated-bottle-opener/-/A-85658741?preselect=85658762&type=scroll_to_review_section",
    "https://www.target.com/p/joyce-chen-original-unlimited-kitchen-scissors-2-pack/-/A-93190296?preselect=93190299&type=scroll_to_review_section",
]
SETTINGS = {
    "js": True,
    "wait_for": 8000,
}
EXTRACT_RULES = {
    "title": {
        "selector": "h1",
        "type": "text",
    },
    "description": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:description\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content",
    },
    "image": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:image\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content",
    },
    "url": {
        "selector": "link[rel=\"canonical\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "href",
    },
    "review_count": {
        "selector": "[data-test='rating-stars'] [data-test='text-quill-insert-0']",
        "type": "text",
    },
}


def scrape(client, url):
    # with extract_rules, client.scrape sends a JSON POST and the API answers {"result": {...}}
    try:
        response = client.scrape(url, params={**SETTINGS, "extract_rules": EXTRACT_RULES})
    except requests.RequestException as error:
        sys.exit(f"Request failed for {url}: {error}")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        try:
            message = response.json().get("message", response.text)
        except ValueError:
            message = response.text
        sys.exit(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}: {str(message)[:300]}")
    print(f"Ujb-Credits: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Credits')}", file=sys.stderr)
    return response.json()["result"]


if not API_KEY:
    sys.exit("Set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable.")

client = UjeebuClient(api_key=API_KEY)

for i, url in enumerate(URLS):
    if i:
        time.sleep(2)  # be polite: one page at a time
    print(json.dumps(scrape(client, url), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

SDK tabs use the official Ujeebu SDKs (ujeebu-python 0.1.5, @ujeebu-org/ujeebu-sdk 0.1.2, github.com/ujeebu/ujeebu-go v0.1.8); there is no PHP SDK, so the PHP tab calls the API with curl. For agents and scripts, the same status and settings are at /scrape/target.json.

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URL patterns and pagination

What the URLs look like, read from the pages our checks fetched.

Product pages

Pattern
https://www.target.com/p/{slug}/-/{id}
Validated on
https://www.target.com/p/berghoff-essentials-kitchen-scissors-with-integrated-bottle-opener/-/A-85658741?preselect=85658762&type=scroll_to_review_sectionhttps://www.target.com/p/joyce-chen-original-unlimited-kitchen-scissors-2-pack/-/A-93190296?preselect=93190299&type=scroll_to_review_section

Settings that work today

From our health checks over the last 7 days: the cheapest settings that return the real page most of the time.

Endpoint/scrape
jstrue
wait_for8000
Costup to 5 credits a request (only HTTP 200 and 404 are billed)

For search and listing pages, change the query or the page parameter in the URL to paginate, and fetch the pages one after another rather than in bursts. Collect detail page URLs from listing pages first, then fetch each detail page. Our checks pass with JavaScript rendering on (js=true) and a wait of 8 seconds (wait_for=8000) before the snapshot: keep both. Start with the default (rotating) proxy, the cheapest one that passed most of its attempts in our checks.

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ProxyAttemptsPassed
Default (rotating)87

The cheapest proxy that passes most of our checks of this site.

Troubleshooting

The failures our own checks of target.com ran into over the last 7 days, and what got the page in the same check.

What happenedTimesWhat fixed it
A different page than expected 2 None of the settings we tried got past it in 7 days.
The page did not load in time 1 Nothing we tried in the same check. Retry later, one request at a time.

A failed request is not billed: only HTTP 200 and 404 responses cost credits.

What people build with Target data

  • Catalog and assortment trackingFollow which products appear for a search or a category, and in which position.More on this use case
  • Ratings and reviews trackingWatch how ratings and review counts move over time for your products and competitors.More on this use case

Limits and etiquette

  • Public pages only. Pages behind a login, and data shown only to signed-in users, are out of scope.
  • Keep the rate modest: fetch pages one after another or with low concurrency, and cache what you already have.
  • robots.txt of www.target.com (read 2026-10-13): public pages asked to stay away (Disallow: /s?); no crawl delay set.
  • Read Target's terms of service before you collect data at scale, and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This guide is not legal advice.

Questions

Can you scrape Target with Ujeebu?

Partly. 7 of 23 checks of public Target pages passed in the last 7 days; most failures were a different page than expected. Retry failed pages later, and use the settings on this page.

Which settings work for Target?

Call /scrape with js=true, wait_for=8000. On the default (rotating) proxy, 7 of 8 attempts passed in the last 7 days.

How many credits does a Target request cost?

With these settings a request costs up to 5 credits. Only responses with HTTP 200 or 404 are billed: a blocked or timed-out request is free.

Which fields can I extract from Target?

With the extraction recipes on this page, validated on real Target pages through our API: product pages: title, description, image, url, review_count. Pass the recipe as extract_rules in a POST to /scrape and the API returns those fields as JSON.

Is it allowed to scrape Target?

Its robots.txt asks generic crawlers to stay away from public pages (Disallow: /s?). Collect public pages only, read Target's terms of service, keep your request rate modest and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is this page?

The status and settings come from our own health checks of target.com, which run around the clock. Last check: 2026-10-13 18:04:13 UTC; last pass: 2026-10-13 18:04:13 UTC.