RxList Scraper
Spider read rxlist.com in 172 ms without a browser and returned 281 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Newly Published" and "Drugs A-Z List".
Trending Searches: Prozac (Fluoxetine Hcl)Toprol XL (Metoprolol Succinate)## Newly PublishedUrinary Tract Infection ### Utebzi (Tebipenem) Friday, July 03Coronavirus ### Xocova (Ensitrelvir) Tuesday, June 16Urinary Tract Infection ### Zaynich (Cefepime and Zidebactam) Wednesday, June 17Hepatitis ### Hepcludex (bulevirtide) Tuesday, June 02Hypertension (High Blood Pressure, HBP) ### Baxfendy (baxdrostat) Thursday, May 28Asthma ### Trimbow (Beclomethasone, Formoterol, and Glycopyrrolate) Friday, May 29## Drugs A-Z List## Top Searched Drugs* Spiriva (Tiotropium Bromide)* Entresto (Sacubitril and Valsartan Film-coated Tablets for Oral Administration)* A-Methapred (Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate)* Lexapro (Escitalopram Oxalate)* Seroquel (Quetiapine Fumarate)* Desyrel (Trazodone Hydrochloride)### From##### Featured Centers* [What Are the Best PsA Treatments for You?](<https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/psoriasis/psa-22/psa-make-treatment-work* [10 Things People With Depression Wish You Knew](<https://blogs.webmd.com/depression/20220131/what-i-wish-people-knew-about-depressionThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on rxlist.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.rxlist.com/metformin-drug.htm");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.rxlist.com/metformin-drug.htm");
const data = await page.extractFields({
drugName: "h1",
genericName: ".drug-generic-name",
description: ".drug-description p",
dosage: "#dosage .drug-article-body",
sideEffects: "#side-effects .drug-article-body",
warnings: "#warnings .drug-article-body",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What rxlist.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000263 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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- Balance never expires
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Start scraping rxlist.com.
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