Dickblick Art Supplies Catalog Scraper

Scrape the complete Dick Blick art supplies catalog from dickblick.com. Extracts product names, brands, variants, pricing, availability, ratings, and breadcrumb categories using server-rendered JSON-LD data.

What data does it collect?

Each record is one product group (a product page with all its size/color variants):

Field	Type	Description
sku	string	First variant SKU
product_name	string	Product group name
brand	string	Brand name (Winsor & Newton, Golden, Crayola, etc.)
category	string	Top-level category from breadcrumb
subcategory	string	Second-level category
item_options	string	Pipe-separated variant summary: sku|name|color|size|price|currency|availability (one per line for multi-variant products)
list_price	number	Lowest variant price (USD)
sale_price	number	Same as list_price (Dick Blick does not expose markdown/original price in structured data)
currency	string	Price currency (USD)
in_stock	boolean	True if any variant is InStock or LimitedAvailability
rating	number	Aggregate star rating (0-5)
review_count	number	Total review count
product_description	string	Product description text
image_url	string	Primary product image URL
product_url	string	Canonical product page URL

How to use it

Full catalog (default)

Leave Product URLs empty and set Max Items. The scraper walks the Dick Blick sitemap index and collects /products/ URLs, scraping up to maxItems product groups. The full catalog contains approximately 60k product group pages.

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "sp_intended_usage": "price monitoring"
}

Targeted product list

Supply specific product page URLs to scrape only those products:

{
  "productUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.dickblick.com/products/winsor-newton-professional-watercolor-tubes/" },
    { "url": "https://www.dickblick.com/products/golden-heavy-body-acrylic-paint/" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "sp_intended_usage": "price monitoring"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	Yes	10	Maximum number of product groups to scrape (0 = unlimited)
productUrls	array	No	—	Specific product page URLs. If provided, skips sitemap discovery.

Notes

• Data is extracted from server-rendered JSON-LD ProductGroup schemas — no JavaScript rendering required.
• Products without variants (books, single-SKU items) may have null sku, in_stock, and item_options.
• Some products lack breadcrumb category data; category and subcategory may be null for those.
• Dick Blick's JSON-LD does not include original/strike-through pricing, so sale_price equals list_price.