Academy Sports + Outdoors Scraper
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.
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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.
How to Scrape Academy Sports + Outdoors
Select a Target
Send API Request
import requests
import urllib.parse
token = "<SDO-token>"
targetUrl = "https://www.academy.com/p/fanatics-mens-tampa-bay-lightning-authentic-pro-training-camp-structured-stretch-hat"
render = "true" # set to "false" to disable JavaScript rendering
super = "true" # set to "false" to disable residential proxies
geoCode = "US"
encodedUrl = urllib.parse.quote(targetUrl)
url = f"https://api.scrape.do/?token={token}&url={encodedUrl}&render={render}&super={super}&geoCode={geoCode}"
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.text)Get HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Fanatics Men's Tampa Bay Lightning Authentic Pro Training Camp Hat | Academy</title>
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@type": "Product",
"productID": "307123456",
"name": "Fanatics Men's Tampa Bay Lightning Authentic Pro Training Camp Structured Stretch Hat",
"brand": { "@type": "Brand", "name": "Fanatics" },
"offers": {
"@type": "Offer",
"price": "34.99",
"priceCurrency": "USD",
"availability": "https://schema.org/InStock"
},
"aggregateRating": {
"@type": "AggregateRating",
"ratingValue": "4.6",
"reviewCount": "47"
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<nav class="breadcrumbs">
<a href="/">Home</a> >
<a href="/c/fan-shop">Fan Shop</a> >
<a href="/c/fan-shop/nhl">NHL</a> >
<a href="/c/fan-shop/nhl/tampa-bay-lightning">Tampa Bay Lightning</a>
</nav>
<div class="product-header">
<h1>Fanatics Men's Tampa Bay Lightning Authentic Pro Training Camp Structured Stretch Hat</h1>
<div class="rating">
<span class="stars">4.6</span>
<span class="review-count">(47 reviews)</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="product-pricing">
<span class="price">$34.99</span>
<span class="availability">IN STOCK</span>
</div>
<div class="product-variations">
<a class="variation active" href="?size=S/M">S/M</a>
<a class="variation" href="?size=L/XL">L/XL</a>
</div>
<div class="fulfillment">
<div class="option">Free Shipping over $25</div>
<div class="option">Free Curbside Pickup</div>
<div class="option">Same Day Delivery</div>
</div>
<div class="product-description">
<p>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...</p>
</div>
<div class="additional-details">
<span class="brand">Fanatics</span>
<span class="team">Tampa Bay Lightning</span>
<span class="league">NHL</span>
</div>
<div class="product-gallery">
<img src="https://assets.academy.com/mgen/35/10940635.jpg">
<img src="https://assets.academy.com/mgen/35/10940635_alt.jpg">
</div>
<!-- ... remaining page content ... -->
</body>
</html>
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Sounds great, but I have a few questions..
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.
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.
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.
