# Scrape Products and Prices from Academy.com
> Source: https://scrape.do/industries/ecommerce/academy-scraper/
Extract athletic, hunting, fishing, and camping product prices and stock from Academy.com at scale. Scrape.do handles Akamai, PerimeterX, and US-only blocks automatically.
**Scrape Products and Prices from Academy.com**
Extract athletic footwear, apparel, hunting, fishing, and camping gear prices and stock from one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the United States. Academy.com sits behind Akamai with a PerimeterX layer that blocks plain HTTP clients and most non-US traffic. Scrape.do handles it automatically.
## How to Scrape Academy Sports + Outdoors
### Product Page
Extract product title, price, rating, stock status, and brand schema from any Academy.com product page with a single API call.
**Example response**
```html
Fanatics Men's Tampa Bay Lightning Authentic Pro Training Camp Hat | Academy
Fanatics Men's Tampa Bay Lightning Authentic Pro Training Camp Structured Stretch Hat
Show your Bolts pride on game day with the Fanatics Men's Tampa Bay Lightning
Authentic Pro Training Camp Structured Stretch Hat. Featuring embroidered team
graphics, a structured 6-panel crown, and a stretch-fit band for an all-day fit...
FanaticsTampa Bay LightningNHL
```
Scrape **Academy Sports + Outdoors** (https://www.academy.com) and receive the data as structured JSON.
**Example extracted fields**
| Field | Example |
| ----- | ------- |
| Price | $34.99 |
| Status | IN STOCK |
| Rating | 4.6 (47) |
| Brand | Fanatics |
### 17.5M Monthly Visits. Every Sport. One API.
Academy.com is the ecommerce arm of **Academy Sports + Outdoors**, a US big-box sporting goods retailer with **275+ stores across 21 states** and around **$6.4 billion in annual revenue**. The site pulls in roughly **17.5 million monthly visits** and ranks **#13 in the Sports > Sports - Other category** on SimilarWeb, with a deep catalog spanning athletic shoes and apparel, team sports, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and patio gear.
With Scrape.do you can **track real-time pricing and stock for major athletic and outdoor brands** across thousands of SKUs, monitor weekly promos and rollback signals, **feed LLMs and AI shopping agents** with live sporting goods data, and benchmark Academy against Dick's Sporting Goods, Bass Pro, Cabela's, and Sportsman's Warehouse at SKU and category level. All through a single API call.
### Akamai. PerimeterX. US-Only. Handled.
Academy.com runs behind **Akamai** with a **PerimeterX (`px-cloud.net`) bot management layer** stacked on top. Any request from a non-US IP, a non-browser User-Agent like Python `requests` or cURL, or a fingerprint that fails Akamai sensor checks gets a **403 Forbidden** with `akamai_ch`, `akaalb_Default-ALB-production`, and `akavpau_wd` challenge cookies set on the response.
Scrape.do rotates *real US residential IPs* with full browser fingerprints, passes Akamai bot detection and the PerimeterX challenge automatically, and returns the fully rendered product HTML with title, price, rating, in-stock status, and brand schema intact. No proxy lists, no Akamai sensor data spoofing, no maintenance.
## FAQ
### Can Scrape.do bypass Academy.com's Akamai and PerimeterX protection?
Yes. Scrape.do rotates real US residential IPs with full browser fingerprints to pass both Academy.com's Akamai bot detection and the PerimeterX (px-cloud.net) challenge layer, so you get fully rendered product and category HTML instead of the 403 block page. Success rates exceed 95% on product, category, and Fan Shop pages.
### What data can I extract from Academy.com?
You can extract product titles, prices, in-stock status, customer ratings and review counts, size and color variations, brand and team tags (Fanatics, Nike, Under Armour, Yeti, Magellan Outdoors), category breadcrumbs across Footwear, Apparel, Hunting, Fishing, Camping, and Fan Shop, fulfillment options (Free Curbside Pickup, Same Day Delivery, Free Shipping over $25), product images, and full JSON-LD Product schema.
### Do I need render mode to scrape Academy.com product pages?
Yes. Academy.com product and category pages need `render=true` together with `super=true` and `geoCode=US` to clear the Akamai and PerimeterX challenge, after which the full HTML is returned with price, stock, rating, and brand schema intact. Rendering ensures the bot-mitigation JavaScript runs and the challenge cookies are set before the page is served.
