Scraping Pharmacy Prices: GoodRx, Costco, and CVS Drug Costs

Prescription drug prices vary dramatically between pharmacies. A single medication can cost 10x more at one pharmacy versus another. Let's build a price comparison tool that scrapes pharmacy pricing data. Why Pharmacy Price Comparison Matters The average American spends $1,300/year on prescriptions. GoodRx has shown that prices for the same drug can vary by 80% within a single zip code. Building your own comparison tool lets you track prices over time and find the best deals. Setting Up pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas We'll use ScraperAPI since pharmacy sites have strong anti-bot protections: import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import json import re SCRAPER_KEY = " YOUR_SCRAPERAPI_KEY " def fetch_page ( url ): """ Fetch page through ScraperAPI with JS rendering. """ resp = requests . get ( " http://api.scraperapi.com " , params = { " api_key " : SCRAPER_KEY , " url " : url , " render " : " true " , " country_code " : " us " }, timeout = 60 ) return BeautifulSoup (