SingleCare Drug Price Scraper

SingleCare Drug Price Scraper

Scrape prescription drug prices from SingleCare for any medication, up to a million per run. Each result includes the drug name, strength, form, pharmacy, and cash discount price. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

SingleCare lists cash discount prices for thousands of prescription drugs, but browsing manually across pharmacies and dosages is slow. This Actor reads the public drug listings and search results directly, filtered by drug name or keyword, and returns each price in one fixed schema.

Who uses it	What they scrape SingleCare for
Healthcare analysts	Compare cash prices for common medications across pharmacy chains.
Pharmacy benefit managers	Monitor competitor discount card pricing for formulary drugs.
Patient advocacy groups	Find the lowest available price for a specific drug in a given ZIP code.
Health-tech developers	Populate a drug price transparency tool with real-time cash rates.

What it does

This Actor collects SingleCare drug prices by browsing all listings or searching specific drug names, and returns each price as a flat row.

• 📋 Browse All Drugs: scrape every available drug listing on SingleCare, over 4,700 medications.
• 🔍 Search Specific Drugs: provide a list of drug names like metformin or atorvastatin and get only those prices.
• 🏷️ Keyword filter: in listings mode, narrow results by drug name keyword such as 'insulin' or 'statin'.
• ⚙️ Flexible volume: set a maximum number of prices to collect, from a single test row up to one million.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with SingleCare data

💊 Build a drug price comparison tool.

A health-tech startup scrapes all SingleCare prices daily to power a patient-facing app that shows the cheapest pharmacy for each prescription.

📉 Monitor competitor discount cards.

A pharmacy benefit manager runs weekly scrapes of top-selling drugs to track how SingleCare's cash prices compare to their own network rates.

🧪 Research medication affordability.

A university researcher collects prices for a list of chronic-disease drugs across multiple discount programs to study out-of-pocket cost variations.

🏥 Find the lowest local price for a patient.

A patient advocate enters a single drug name, scrapes all available pharmacy prices, and tells the patient exactly where to fill it for the least cash.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
Cash discount price	The price a patient pays without insurance at the pharmacy
Pharmacy name	Which chain or independent pharmacy offers this price
Drug details	Name, strength, and form of the medication
No API limits	Reads the public website directly with no registration or rate limits

How it compares

No other Store actor targets SingleCare the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	SingleCare Drug Price Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When SingleCare changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

Configure the run

Drive the Actor from a full catalog browse or a list of specific drug names, and filters run as each price is read so only matches reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "mode": "listings",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "drugs": [
    "metformin",
    "lisinopril",
    "atorvastatin"
  ]
}

A larger pull:

{
  "mode": "listings",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "drugs": [
    "metformin",
    "lisinopril",
    "atorvastatin"
  ]
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.0065 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$0.65
1,000 results	$6.50
10,000 results	$65.00

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the SingleCare Drug Price Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to SingleCare through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/singlecare-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting no results for my drug search?

Check the spelling of the drug name. SingleCare's search expects the exact generic or brand name. Try the 'Browse All Drugs' mode with a keyword filter to see how the drug is listed.

The run stopped before collecting all the prices I requested.

Your maxItems setting controls the cutoff. Increase it if you want more rows. Also check the run log for any network errors that may have interrupted the scrape.

Some drugs show fewer pharmacies than I expected.

SingleCare's pharmacy network varies by drug and location. The Actor returns exactly what the public website shows for each medication.

I see a price of zero or a missing price for some rows.

SingleCare may not display a cash price for every drug-pharmacy combination. The Actor records whatever value is shown on the page, which can be empty if no price is listed.

The Actor is running slowly on the full catalog.

Scraping all 4,700+ drugs takes time because each drug page must load. Use the 'Search Specific Drugs' mode with a targeted list for faster runs, or increase the run timeout in your Apify settings.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Does this scraper need a SingleCare account or API key?	No. It reads the public SingleCare website directly, so no login, account, or API key is required.
Can I search for a specific drug by name?	Yes. Switch to 'Search Specific Drugs' mode and provide a list of drug names. The Actor will look up each one and return its prices.
How many drug prices can I collect in one run?	You set the maximum. The input accepts any number from 1 to 1,000,000, so you can test with a few rows or pull the entire catalog.
What information comes back for each price?	Each row includes the drug name, strength, form, pharmacy name, and the cash discount price, along with any other fields SingleCare displays.
Does this include insurance copay prices?	No. SingleCare shows cash discount prices for patients paying without insurance. It does not display insured copay amounts.
Can I filter by pharmacy chain or location?	The Actor returns all pharmacies that appear for a given drug. You can filter the results after export by pharmacy name or use the data as-is.
Is this legal to scrape?	SingleCare's drug prices are publicly visible without a login. You are responsible for complying with their terms of service and applicable laws.
How often is the pricing data updated?	SingleCare updates its prices regularly. Run the Actor on a schedule to keep your dataset current with the latest cash rates.
What export formats are supported?	You can export your results to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML directly from the Apify dataset.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SingleCare Services, LLC. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.