Pakistan DRAP Drug Prices Actor (PharmaPrice Index)

Registered drug prices from the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP), read from its public PharmaPrice Index at e.dra.gov.pk/public/price, as clean, English-keyed JSON: product name, composition, strength and dosage form, DRAP registration number, the registration holder and its drug manufacturing (DML) or drug sale (DSL) licence, price category, pack size, the published maximum retail price in Pakistani rupees and the date it took effect.

The index lists about 21,500 priced packs from 392 registration holders (1,076 pages on 2026-09-26): about 20,600 in the "Essential Drugs" category and about 870 in "Low Price Drugs".

Who needs this

• Pharmacies, distributors and e-pharmacies checking shelf and listing prices against the price DRAP has notified, or loading a price list into their own systems.
• Pharmaceutical companies and market-access teams watching competitors' registered prices and new packs as DRAP adds them.
• Hospitals, insurers and procurement teams benchmarking tender and reimbursement prices against the regulated retail price.
• Researchers, journalists and health-policy analysts studying medicine prices and affordability in Pakistan.
• AI agents and automations that need a stable schema instead of a paged HTML table.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
search	string	""	Product name or registration number contains this text, e.g. panadol, augmentin (the site's own search).
registrationNumber	string	""	Every priced pack of one DRAP registration, e.g. 137272; leading zeros optional.
company	string	""	Registration holder: part of its name (searle) or its licence number (000016, DML 000016). Matches every holder whose name contains the text.
category	string	"" (any)	essential-drugs or low-price-drugs.
effectiveSince	string	""	Only prices that took effect on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). See Prices effective since a date.
order	string	"newest"	newest: the packs DRAP added to the index most recently come first. oldest: the site's own order.
maxItems	integer	100	Stop after this many priced packs (1-25,000).
proxyConfiguration	object	no proxy	Optional Apify Proxy, if the site is unreachable from Apify's network.

Filters combine with AND. The site itself answers one filter per request, so the actor asks it for the most selective one (a registration number, then a search, then a company, then a category) and checks the rest on each pack it reads.

Search. The site's search looks at the product name and registration number, not at the composition line: an ingredient is found only where the product name states it (paracetamol finds "Nuberol-P Forte Suspension (Paracetamol)" but not "Panadol"). Search for brand names, or use company.

Order. The site has no sort control; it lists packs in the order DRAP added them, so the newest additions sit on its last pages. With order set to newest (the default) the actor reads the list from the end, so a small run returns the most recently added packs.

Prices effective since a date

The site cannot filter or sort by the effective date, so the actor checks the date of every pack it reads and keeps the ones on or after effectiveSince. Recently added packs come first (newest order), but a price revision of an older product can sit anywhere in the list: a complete check reads all 1,076 pages, which takes about 40 minutes at the actor's polite pace. Raise the run timeout for that (Run options), or combine the date with a search, company or category to read less. A run always stops cleanly shortly before its timeout, keeping everything it stored.

Output

One dataset item per priced pack. Keys are English; names, compositions and pack sizes are kept exactly as DRAP publishes them (HTML entities decoded, whitespace tidied). maximumRetailPricePkr is a number and priceText the price as printed; effectiveFrom is an ISO date. strength and dosageForm are read by the actor from the product name and are null when the name states none. The Output tab on this page documents every field.

A real item (captured 2026-09-26, newest-first list):

{
  "productName": "Vitcefrol Injection 5mg/ml (IM/Oral)",
  "composition": "Cholecalciferol : 5 mg/ml",
  "strength": "5mg/ml",
  "dosageForm": "Injection",
  "registrationNumber": "137272",
  "company": {
    "name": "Q. Track Pharma",
    "licenceType": "DML",
    "licenceNo": "000982"
  },
  "category": "Essential Drugs",
  "packSize": "1mlx1's",
  "maximumRetailPricePkr": 110,
  "priceText": "Rs 110.00",
  "effectiveFrom": "2026-09-18",
  "sourceUrl": "https://e.dra.gov.pk/public/price?page=1076",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-26T20:12:08.634Z"
}

Notes on the fields:

• One registration, several packs. Each pack size has its own price and its own item; they share the registrationNumber.
• Company and licence. licenceType is DML (Drug Manufacturing Licence, local manufacturers) or DSL (Drug Sale Licence, importers and distributors); licenceNo keeps leading zeros and DSL formats such as 017/DSL(D)/PS&DC-ICT/2025.
• Composition is the line the index prints under the product name. It is null when that line is blank (common for older entries) or only repeats the product name.
• sourceUrl is the list page the pack was read from. Searches and company lists are answers to a form the site accepts only as a POST, so for those it is the index page, where the same search can be repeated.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Charged for
price-record	Each priced pack stored in the dataset.

Apify's standard run-start event covers starting the actor. Packs are stored first and charged after, so you never pay for data you did not receive. When your spending limit runs out, the run stops cleanly and never stores an unpaid pack.

Data source and politeness

• Source: DRAP's public PharmaPrice Index, the server-rendered pages a browser sees: GET https://e.dra.gov.pk/public/price (20 packs per page, ?page=N, ?category=), its search form (POST /public/price/find) and its company filter (POST /public/price, one page per registration holder). The forms carry the page's own session token, as a browser sends it. No login, no captcha.
• robots.txt (checked 2026-09-26) allows every user agent and path and sets no crawl delay. The actor still
  • waits at least 1 second after each request ends before the next one starts (retries and session renewals included; a constant, not an input),
  • uses one connection, one request at a time,
  • identifies itself honestly as pk-drap-actor/0.1 (+https://apify.com/a-g-d/pk-drap),
  • reads only the list pages it needs: a 20-pack run makes 3 requests.
• Measured on 2026-09-26: about 14 KB per page on the wire (gzip), about 2 seconds per page including the pause. 20 packs took 6 s, 200 packs 25 s (12 requests); the default 300-second run timeout covers about 2,000 packs.
• Resilience: connection errors, timeouts, HTTP 5xx and 429, and pages that do not contain the price table are retried with exponential backoff and jitter inside a run-wide budget (90 s of backoff), well inside the default timeout. If the site sends a form back (an expired session), the actor starts a fresh session once and retries; a second refusal stops the run with a clear message.
• Terms: the site links no terms of use; its footer reads "© 2026 Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan. All rights reserved." The prices are published by DRAP for the public. Check DRAP's terms for your own use of the data.

Data and privacy

The index publishes product and company data: registered medicines, the companies that hold the registrations and their licence numbers, and prices. It contains no personal data, and the actor outputs only the fields listed above; the office addresses and phone numbers in the site's footer are not collected.

Limitations

• No ingredient search. The site searches product names and registration numbers only (see Input).
• Effective-date filtering reads the list. See Prices effective since a date.
• Derived fields. strength and dosageForm come from the product name by pattern matching: the first strength stated, and the first dosage form named. Names that state neither give null; check composition for the full formula.
• No detail pages. The index has no per-product page, so there is no detail link.
• A run is a snapshot. If DRAP adds packs while a long run pages through the list, the actor skips packs it has already stored (duplicates in the run log); additions made mid-run belong to the next run.
• The registered-product database is not covered. DRAP's product registration search (eapp.dra.gov.pk) refused requests (HTTP 403) from the network this actor was built on; this actor covers the price index only.