Crutchfield Car & Home Audio Product Scraper

Scrape car audio and home audio product specs, pricing, ratings, and availability from Crutchfield.com — the US authority for car audio and home theater gear since 1974.

What It Does

This actor scrapes product data from Crutchfield's entire car audio and home audio catalog. It discovers products via Crutchfield's product sitemaps and scrapes each product detail page for structured product data including:

• Product name, manufacturer, and SKU (Crutchfield item number)
• Manufacturer part number
• Department, category, and sub-category (from breadcrumb)
• Current selling price and MSRP (strikethrough price)
• Stock availability
• Outlet / open-box flag
• Customer rating and review count
• Crutchfield editorial score (Recommended / Outstanding badge)
• Feature bullets
• What's in the box
• Product URL and image URLs
• Scrape timestamp

Why Crutchfield

Crutchfield is the dominant US car audio and home theater retailer with 368,000+ monthly branded searches. Despite massive demand, zero Apify actors existed for it — Cloudflare bot protection had gated competitors out. This actor uses CapSolver + DataImpulse residential proxy to bypass Cloudflare and deliver comprehensive product data.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	Both car + home audio	Category hint URLs. Use a car audio URL (e.g. https://www.crutchfield.com/g_300/All-Car-Stereos.html) for car audio only, or a home audio URL (e.g. https://www.crutchfield.com/g_111600/Receivers.html) for home audio only. When omitted, both catalogs are scraped.
maxItems	Integer	500	Maximum number of product records to return

Output

Each record in the default dataset contains:

{
  "product_name": "Sony XAV-AX4000",
  "manufacturer": "Sony",
  "sku": "158XAV4000",
  "mfr_part_number": "XAVAX4000",
  "department": "Car audio & video",
  "category": "Car stereos",
  "sub_category": "Digital multimedia car stereos",
  "price_usd": 448,
  "msrp_usd": 598,
  "in_stock": true,
  "is_outlet": false,
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 361,
  "crutchfield_score": null,
  "feature_bullets": ["7\" touchscreen", "Apple CarPlay & Android Auto", "Built-in WebLink"],
  "what_in_the_box": ["Receiver", "Wiring harness", "Mounting hardware"],
  "product_url": "https://www.crutchfield.com/p_158XAV4000/Sony-XAV-AX4000.html",
  "image_urls": ["https://images.crutchfieldonline.com/..."],
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-05T10:51:15.000Z"
}

Coverage

• Car audio: ~14,600 products (car stereos, amplifiers, speakers, subwoofers, navigation, dash cams, etc.)
• Home audio: ~4,100 products (receivers, tower speakers, subwoofers, amplifiers, soundbars, etc.)
• Total: ~18,700 unique products

Use Cases

• Price monitoring: Track pricing trends on car audio and home theater gear
• Competitive intelligence: Compare Crutchfield's catalog against other retailers
• AI / ML datasets: Build training data for audio product recommendation engines
• Market research: Analyze brand distribution, category coverage, and pricing tiers
• Outlet arbitrage: Identify discounted B-stock and open-box deals via the is_outlet flag

Technical Notes

• Cloudflare bypass via CapSolver AntiCloudflareTask + DataImpulse residential proxy
• Product discovery via Crutchfield's official product sitemaps (no listing page scraping required)
• Extraction via JSON-LD Product schema (rich structured data on all product pages)
• Memory: 4096 MB recommended (large sitemap parsing + sequential PDP fetches)