💊 Cost Plus Drugs Price Scraper

🚀 Pull transparent prescription drug prices from Cost Plus Drugs in minutes. 2,000+ medications. Drug name, strength, form, NDC, unit price. No login.

Pull structured records from Cost Plus Drugs Price — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/costplusdrugs-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/costplusdrugs-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), drugs (array, default ["ibuprofen", "metformin", "lisinopril", "atorvastatin", "am). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~costplusdrugs-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

Pull live drug pricing data from Cost Plus Drugs (Mark Cuban's transparent-pricing pharmacy). The actor accepts a list of medication names, looks them up, and returns one structured record per medication with name, strength, form, NDC code, unit price, manufacturer, and insurance eligibility. Built for healthcare-cost research, telemedicine apps, employee-benefits design, and patient-cost-comparison tools.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of Cost Plus Drugs at run time. Records include the medication generic and brand name, dose strength, dosage form (tablet, capsule, liquid), NDC code, unit price, total price for typical fill, manufacturer, and insurance eligibility.

👥 Built for	🎯 Primary use cases
Telemedicine apps	Power patient cost comparison features
Employee benefits	Build pharmacy-cost transparency tools
Healthcare researchers	Study prescription pricing dynamics
Patient advocacy	Surface lower-cost generic alternatives
Insurance and PBM	Benchmark Cost Plus pricing vs traditional pharmacy
Healthcare ops	Power Rx-cost analysis pipelines

📋 What the Cost Plus Drugs Scraper does

• 💊 Drug name lookup. Pass a list of medication names (generic preferred).
• 🆔 NDC mapping. Each medication links to its NDC (National Drug Code).
• 💰 Transparent pricing. Unit price plus typical-fill total.
• 📐 Dose detail. Strength (mg, mL) and form (tablet, capsule, liquid).
• 🏭 Manufacturer. Generic manufacturer name.
• 🩺 Insurance flag. Whether the medication is insurance-eligible.

The scraper resolves each medication name against Cost Plus Drugs' API and pushes one structured record per match.

💡 Why it matters: Cost Plus Drugs is rewriting US pharmacy economics with transparent, low-cost generic pricing. A live, structured pull gives builders, researchers, and benefits teams direct access to that pricing for comparison and integration.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: autoRefill, brandOrGeneric, drugName, form, genericName, insuranceEligible, ndc, packSize, packSizeUnits, pillType, quantity, scrapedAt, searchTerm, strength, unitBillingPrice, unitPrice, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Cost Plus Drugs Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set drug list. Add medication names to drugs and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor look up each drug.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cost Plus Drugs. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and product-development use. Rx pricing is informational only and not a substitute for medical advice or actual prescription processes. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

🆘 Need Help?

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