Search Alternate PC hardware products.

Searches Alternate.nl, the Dutch PC hardware shop, like its listing page: product name, short spec line, price in euros, rating and number of ratings, and link. First page of results (about 24 products). Returns an empty list when nothing matches.

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Site: Alternate, Netherlands
Version: v1
Runs, last 7 days: No reports yet
sha256: b537e7abcc47…

Run it with your agent

after installing Wield

Ask in plain words. Your agent finds this recipe and calls it:

“Search Alternate PC hardware products.”

Read-only: it changes nothing on the site. No login needed.

{
  "tool": "run",
  "arguments": {
    "recipe_id": "alternate.nl/search-products",
    "params": {
      "query": "videokaart"
    }
  }
}

Requests

sent from your browser, in order

1GET/listing.xhtml?qServer-rendered listing page /listing.xhtml?q=…; read-only GET. Each product is an a.productBox tile with the product name, price span and rating span.

Parameters

from your agent

querystringrequiredProduct, brand or model term, e.g. 'videokaart', 'processor', 'muis'

Returns

to your agent

productsobject[]name, price_eur, rating, ratings_count, subtitle, url

querystring

Where it can send

www.alternate.nl

Anything else is blocked by the extension.

Reads from your session

Nothing. Your browser attaches the site's cookies by itself.

Used only in requests to the addresses on the left. Never sent to wield.run or your agent.

Checks

a run passes when

length(output.products) > `0`
length(output.products[?price_eur > `0`]) > `0`
length(output.products[?name != `null`]) == length(output.products)
length(output.products[?starts_with(url, 'https://www.alternate.nl/')]) == length(output.products)

Raw recipe

Served as canonical JSON from /api/v1/recipes/alternate.nl/search-products, so its sha256 matches the ETag and the index.

Check it yourself

curl -s https://wield.run/api/v1/recipes/alternate.nl/search-products | shasum -a 256
# b537e7abcc47ec5a6442fc220678b62d5cbda044c432163a07e3c47b93e761d0

alternate.nl/search-products.json, v1

{
  "description": "Searches Alternate.nl, the Dutch PC hardware shop, like its listing page: product name, short spec line, price in euros, rating and number of ratings, and link. First page of results (about 24 products). Returns an empty list when nothing matches.",
  "effect": "read",
  "id": "alternate.nl/search-products",
  "keywords": [
    "alternate",
    "alternate.nl",
    "pc onderdelen",
    "computer",
    "hardware",
    "videokaart",
    "grafische kaart",
    "processor",
    "muis",
    "gaming",
    "laptop",
    "netherlands",
    "graphics card",
    "computer parts"
  ],
  "output": {
    "schema": {
      "properties": {
        "products": {
          "items": {
            "properties": {
              "name": {
                "description": "Brand and product name",
                "type": "string"
              },
              "price_eur": {
                "type": [
                  "number",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "rating": {
                "description": "Average stars, 0 to 5",
                "type": [
                  "number",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "ratings_count": {
                "type": [
                  "integer",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "subtitle": {
                "description": "Short spec line, e.g. ports or memory",
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "url": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "name",
              "url"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "type": "array"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "query",
        "products"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "value": "{query: params.query, products: map(&{name: name, subtitle: subtitle || `null`, price_eur: (price && to_number(replace(replace(replace(replace(price, '€', ''), ' ', ''), '.', ''), ',', '.'))) || `null`, rating: (rating_label && to_number(split(rating_label, ' ')[0])) || `null`, ratings_count: (rating_label && to_number(split(rating_label, ' ')[4])) || `null`, url: join('', ['https://www.alternate.nl', href])}, steps.search.products[?name != `null` && href != `null`] || `[]`)}"
  },
  "params": {
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "description": "Product, brand or model term, e.g. 'videokaart', 'processor', 'muis'",
        "maxLength": 100,
        "minLength": 2,
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "query"
    ],
    "type": "object"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "har",
    "notes": "One GET to /listing.xhtml?q=…, which answers 200 HTML with the first page of product tiles (a.productBox, about 24). Name is the .product-name text (brand included), price is span.price such as '€ 309,00', rating and count come from the aria-description of .ratingstars. Hrefs are relative product paths and are joined to the origin. Only the first page is returned; the page's further results are not followed.",
    "recorded_at": "2026-11-08T15:40:00.000Z",
    "recorded_by": "wield-forge (claude-haiku agent)"
  },
  "requires_login": false,
  "schema": "https://wield.run/schema/recipe/v1.json",
  "site": {
    "country": "NL",
    "id": "alternate.nl",
    "language": "nl",
    "name": "Alternate",
    "origin": "https://www.alternate.nl",
    "origins": [
      "https://www.alternate.nl"
    ]
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "description": "Server-rendered listing page /listing.xhtml?q=…; read-only GET. Each product is an a.productBox tile with the product name, price span and rating span.",
      "expect": {
        "content_type": "html",
        "status": [
          200
        ]
      },
      "extract": {
        "html_items": {
          "products": {
            "fields": {
              "href": {
                "attr": "href",
                "selector": ":scope"
              },
              "name": {
                "selector": ".product-name"
              },
              "price": {
                "selector": ".price"
              },
              "rating_label": {
                "attr": "aria-description",
                "selector": ".ratingstars"
              },
              "subtitle": {
                "selector": ".product-name-sub"
              }
            },
            "max": 60,
            "selector": "a.productBox"
          }
        }
      },
      "id": "search",
      "request": {
        "headers": {
          "Accept": "text/html"
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "query": {
          "q": "{{params.query}}"
        },
        "url": "/listing.xhtml"
      }
    }
  ],
  "task": "Search Alternate PC hardware products",
  "tos": {
    "notes": "Not reviewed. One search page per call, the same page a visitor loads. The site's terms on automated access were not checked.",
    "reviewed": false
  },
  "verify": {
    "checks": [
      "length(output.products) > `0`",
      "length(output.products[?price_eur > `0`]) > `0`",
      "length(output.products[?name != `null`]) == length(output.products)",
      "length(output.products[?starts_with(url, 'https://www.alternate.nl/')]) == length(output.products)"
    ],
    "example_params": {
      "query": "videokaart"
    },
    "max_ms": 5000
  },
  "version": 1
}