WebMD Keyword Search - Full Article Detail Results

What does WebMD Keyword Search Scraper do?

WebMD Keyword Search Scraper searches WebMD by any keyword or phrase and returns real, ranked search results straight from WebMD's own Solr-backed search engine - the same results you'd see typing into the search box yourself. Every result that points to a WebMD News article or Blog post is automatically opened and enriched with the full article body, author, medical reviewer, publish date, and hero image, not just a title and snippet. Results pointing elsewhere on WebMD (Conditions/Drugs reference pages, Q&A, etc) are still returned with their title, description, and URL. Run it on the Apify platform for instant API access, scheduling, and integrations - no manual searching, no copy-pasting results by hand.

Why use WebMD Keyword Search Scraper?

• Health content monitoring - track what WebMD publishes about a drug, condition, or symptom over time.
• Competitive/market research - see how WebMD covers a topic compared to other health publishers.
• Content aggregation - pull structured, full-text health articles into your own app or dataset instead of screen-scraping search results by hand.
• SEO and content gap analysis - see exactly which WebMD pages rank for a given health keyword.

How to use WebMD Keyword Search Scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Run) on this Actor's page.
2. Enter your search query (e.g. diabetes, migraine treatment, covid symptoms).
3. Optionally adjust Max results.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Open the Output tab to view results as a table, or download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Dataset tab.

Input

Field	Type	Description
query	String (required)	Keyword or phrase to search for, e.g. "diabetes".
maxResults	Integer (default 30)	Maximum number of results to return. WebMD returns 10 per page internally, so this is rounded up to the nearest page.
proxyConfiguration	Object	Optional Apify Proxy settings. Left off by default - WebMD has no anti-bot wall, so a proxy isn't required.

Output

Every dataset item is one search result:

{
  "query": "measles outbreak",
  "resultId": "wbmd_news_...",
  "title": "Spring Measles Outbreak: Is It Safe to Travel to Florida?",
  "snippet": "Each spring, around 30 million people descend on Florida's beaches...",
  "url": "https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20240320/cm/spring-measles-outbreak-is-it-safe-to-travel-to-florida",
  "contentType": "News Article",
  "publication": "WebMD Health News",
  "isFullyEnriched": true,
  "author": "WebMD Editorial Contributors",
  "publishedDate": "2024-03-20",
  "heroImageUrl": "https://img.lb.wbmdstatic.com/vim/live/webmd/.../1800x1200_beachwear.jpg",
  "bodyText": "March 20, 2024 -- Each spring, around 30 million people descend on Florida's beaches...",
  "bodyHtml": "<div>...</div>",
  "sources": ["SOURCE: WebMD Health News archive"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T00:00:00.000000+00:00"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
query	The search term this result matched.
title / snippet	Result title and short description as shown in WebMD search.
url	Canonical URL of the result.
contentType	WebMD's own classification (News Article, Blog Post, Page, Question, ...).
isFullyEnriched	true only for News articles and Blog posts, where the full body was fetched.
author, medicalReviewer, publishedDate	Byline info (News/Blog results only).
heroImageUrl	Main article image, direct download link.
bodyText / bodyHtml	Full article text, plain and HTML (News/Blog results only).
sources	Cited sources listed at the bottom of the article, when present.

Pricing / Cost estimation

How much does it cost to scrape WebMD search results? This Actor is priced at $4 per 1,000 results on the Pay-per-result model - a typical run covering a handful of queries costs cents. There's no per-page compute-unit guessing: you pay per result returned.

Tips or Advanced options

• Broad topic queries (e.g. "diabetes") tend to surface WebMD's evergreen Conditions/Drugs reference pages first (isFullyEnriched: false) - use a more specific, news-shaped query (e.g. "diabetes drug recall") to surface enrichable News articles instead.
• Pair this Actor with the companion WebMD News & Blogs Scraper to crawl WebMD's entire News and Blogs feed rather than searching for a specific term.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

This Actor only accesses publicly available pages on webmd.com and does not require any login or API key. It's intended for research, monitoring, and content-aggregation use cases - please respect WebMD's own Terms of Service for any downstream use of the scraped data. WebMD's underlying search structure may change over time; if you notice missing or malformed data, please open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab. Need a customized version (different site, different fields)? A custom scraping solution is available on request.