💊 SingleCare Drug Price Scraper

🚀 Compare prescription drug prices across US pharmacies with SingleCare data. Browse all 4,700+ medications or search specific drugs. Get discount prices at CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Kroger, and more with pharmacy comparisons and 12-month price history.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you're a healthcare researcher comparing drug costs, a pharmacy analyst tracking competitive pricing, or a consumer looking for the best deals on prescriptions, this tool makes it easy to collect structured drug price data from SingleCare's database of 4,700+ medications across major US pharmacies.

The SingleCare Drug Price Scraper collects prescription drug prices across CVS, Walgreens, Kroger, Costco, and more. Browse all 4,700+ drugs or search specific medications. Get prices, pharmacy comparisons, drug info, and price history.

Target Audience	Healthcare researchers, pharmacy analysts, insurance companies, consumers, journalists
Primary Use Cases	Drug price comparison, pharmacy benchmarking, formulary planning, price trend analysis

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📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects prescription drug pricing data from SingleCare, supporting both full catalog browsing and targeted drug searches. It delivers:

• 💊 Drug prices - discount prices for any prescription medication across major US pharmacies
• 🏪 Pharmacy comparison - compare prices at CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Kroger, Costco, and more
• 📋 Browse all drugs - scrape the full catalog of 4,700+ medications automatically
• 🔍 Search specific drugs - look up prices for specific medications by name
• 📊 Price history - track how drug prices have changed over the last 12 months
• 💉 Drug info - get drug class, uses, warnings, and side effects

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🎬 How to Use the SingleCare Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon

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⚙️ Input

To start collecting drug price data, simply fill in the input form. You can search SingleCare based on:

Field	Type	Description
Mode	Select	Choose "Browse All Drugs" to scrape the full catalog (4,700+) or "Search Specific Drugs" to look up drugs you provide.
Max Items	Integer	Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000.
Filter by Name	String	In listings mode, filter drugs by name (e.g. "insulin", "statin"). Leave empty for all drugs.
Drug Names	Array	In search mode, provide specific drug names to look up (e.g. metformin, lisinopril, atorvastatin).

Example 1: Browse all drugs filtered by name

{
    "mode": "listings",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "searchQuery": "insulin"
}

Example 2: Search specific drugs

{
    "mode": "search",
    "drugs": ["metformin", "lisinopril", "atorvastatin"]
}

⚠️ Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Sign up for a paid plan to collect up to 1,000,000 items.

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📊 Output

After the Actor finishes its run, you'll get a dataset with the output. You can download results as Excel, HTML, XML, JSON, or CSV.

🧾 Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
drugName	String	Medication name
drugType	String	Type of medication (generic/brand)
isGeneric	Boolean	Whether the drug is generic
url	String	Drug page URL
lowestPrice	Number	Lowest available price
lowestPricePharmacy	String	Pharmacy with lowest price
pharmacyCount	Number	Number of pharmacies compared
pharmacies	Array	Full price comparison across all pharmacies
drugClass	String	Drug classification
uses	String	Medical uses
warnings	String	Safety warnings
priceHistory	Array	Price trends over last 12 months
scrapedAt	String	Timestamp of data collection

📦 Sample Output

Sample 1:

{
    "drugName": "Metformin Hcl",
    "drugType": "generic",
    "isGeneric": true,
    "url": "https://www.singlecare.com/prescription/metformin",
    "lowestPrice": 4.16,
    "lowestPricePharmacy": "Costco",
    "pharmacyCount": 8,
    "pharmacies": [
        { "name": "Costco", "price": 4.16 },
        { "name": "CVS Pharmacy", "price": 8.48 },
        { "name": "Walgreens", "price": 9.12 }
    ],
    "drugClass": "Biguanides",
    "priceHistory": [
        { "date": "2026-03", "price": 4.16 },
        { "date": "2026-02", "price": 4.20 }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 2:

{
    "drugName": "Lisinopril",
    "drugType": "generic",
    "isGeneric": true,
    "url": "https://www.singlecare.com/prescription/lisinopril",
    "lowestPrice": 3.45,
    "lowestPricePharmacy": "Costco",
    "pharmacyCount": 7,
    "pharmacies": [
        { "name": "Costco", "price": 3.45 },
        { "name": "Walmart", "price": 5.80 }
    ],
    "drugClass": "ACE Inhibitors",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 3:

{
    "drugName": "Atorvastatin Calcium",
    "drugType": "generic",
    "isGeneric": true,
    "url": "https://www.singlecare.com/prescription/atorvastatin",
    "lowestPrice": 5.92,
    "lowestPricePharmacy": "Costco",
    "pharmacyCount": 8,
    "pharmacies": [
        { "name": "Costco", "price": 5.92 },
        { "name": "CVS Pharmacy", "price": 10.24 }
    ],
    "drugClass": "HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors (Statins)",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose the SingleCare Scraper?

Benefit	Description
⚡ Batch collection	Collect up to 4,700+ drugs at once instead of searching one at a time
📋 Full catalog browse	Scrape all drugs automatically without knowing drug names
🏪 Pharmacy comparison	All pharmacies per drug included in every record
📈 Price history	12 months of price trends included
📁 Structured output	Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel for immediate analysis
🔄 Automated scheduling	Set up daily or weekly price monitoring
🎯 No coding required	Point-and-click interface that anyone can use

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📈 How Does It Compare?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Website Search
Batch collection	✅ Up to 4,700+ drugs	❌ One at a time
Full catalog browse	✅ All drugs automatically	❌ Must know drug names
Pharmacy comparison	✅ All pharmacies per drug	⚠️ Click each one
Price history	✅ 12 months of trends	⚠️ Buried in details
Structured output	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ HTML pages
Automated scheduling	✅ Daily/weekly monitoring	❌ Manual visits

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Scraper - Search for "SingleCare Drug Price Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Choose Browse All Drugs or Search Specific Drugs mode
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

Total Time: About 5 drugs per second. 100 drugs in roughly 20 seconds. No Technical Skills Required: Everything is point-and-click

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💼 Business Use Cases

Healthcare Researchers:

• Analyze drug pricing patterns across pharmacies and over time
• Compare generic vs brand-name pricing spreads
• Study regional pharmacy pricing differences

Pharmacy Analysts:

• Track competitor pricing and identify market trends
• Monitor price movements for key medication categories
• Build competitive pricing intelligence databases

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ SingleCare Drug Price Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the SingleCare Drug Price Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
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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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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• 💬 ChatGPT
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• 🅒 Copilot

💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test SingleCare Drug Price Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running SingleCare Drug Price Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running SingleCare Drug Price Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using SingleCare Drug Price Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run SingleCare Drug Price Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use SingleCare Drug Price Scraper?

Yes. SingleCare Drug Price Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating Your Workflows

For advanced users who want to automate this process, you can control the scraper programmatically with the Apify API. This allows you to schedule regular data collection and integrate with your existing business tools.

• Node.js: Install the apify-client NPM package
• Python: Use the apify-client PyPI package
• See the Apify API reference for full details

🔌 Integrate SingleCare Scraper with any app

Last but not least, SingleCare Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform.

These include:

• Make - Automate drug price monitoring workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts on price changes
• Slack - Notify your team of price updates
• Airbyte - Build data pipelines
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever SingleCare Scraper successfully finishes a run.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

SingleCare Drug Price Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SingleCare or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.