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Drug monograph metadata, user review rating breakdowns, medically-reviewed condition attribution, pill identifier results, and Rx discount pricing across the US health information market — structured and delivered as clean JSON or CSV.

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GET /v1/webmd/drugs

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Why Choose Our WebMD API

WebMD is a publisher, not a marketplace — its value sits in reviewed content, drug data, and aggregated user ratings.

Unlike appointment-booking platforms, WebMD's data centers on medically-reviewed condition content with named reviewer attribution and dates, a deep drug database with user-submitted effectiveness and satisfaction ratings, a pill identifier, and Rx discount pricing. Our infrastructure resolves that structured metadata as explicit fields. We extract metadata and facts — we do not reproduce article text — and we never collect personal health information.

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Zero blocking, zero maintenance

We run rotating residential IPs, headless rendering, and CAPTCHA-solving behind every request. When WebMD changes its layout, we patch our parsers — your integration never breaks.

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Review-rating extraction

Every drug response returns aggregated user ratings for effectiveness, ease of use, and satisfaction, plus review volume.

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Reviewer attribution & freshness resolution

We resolve the medical reviewer credential and last-reviewed date attached to condition content, so you can measure content freshness.

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Built for scale from day one

From a 100-drug test batch to full database monitoring, the same endpoint scales with you.

WebMD API Features

Everything you need to keep WebMD data flowing.

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Real-time extraction

Trigger an on-demand pull for any drug, condition, or imprint and get a fresh response — not a stale cache.

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Custom field selection

Request only the fields you need — ratings, reviewer, Rx price — to cut payload size and parsing time.

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Drug monograph metadata

Return drug class, forms, strengths, and which monograph sections are present for each drug.

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User review rating breakdown

Pull aggregated effectiveness, ease-of-use, and satisfaction scores with review counts.

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Pill identifier resolution

Resolve imprint, color, and shape queries to candidate drug matches.

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Medical reviewer & date extraction

Return the reviewer credential and last-reviewed date shown on condition content.

What Data Can You Access?

Every public metadata field a page shows — ratings and reviewer attribution included.

DrugDrug name & IDBrand and generic names with identifiers

DrugDrug class & formsTherapeutic class, dosage forms, and strengths

DrugMonograph section mapWhich sections exist: uses, side effects, interactions

ReviewsEffectiveness ratingAverage user-reported effectiveness score

ReviewsEase-of-use & satisfactionAverage ease-of-use and satisfaction scores

ReviewsReview countNumber of user reviews behind the averages

ConditionCondition name & categoryCondition taxonomy and topic hierarchy

ConditionMedical reviewer credentialReviewer name and credential shown on the page

ConditionLast-reviewed dateContent freshness timestamp

Pill IDImprint, color & shapePill identifier attributes and candidate matches

PricingRx discount priceListed discount price by pharmacy and quantity

DirectoryDoctor directory listingPublic provider listing detail by location

Supported WebMD Categories

Drugs, conditions, pill ID, and Rx pricing — one integration.

Switch the category parameter to pull metadata from a specific content vertical with the same consistent response shape.

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Drugs & Supplements

Drug and supplement monograph metadata and reviews.

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Conditions

Condition topics with reviewer attribution and dates.

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Pill Identifier

Imprint, color, and shape lookups.

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Rx Pricing

Discount price listings by pharmacy and quantity.

CoverageUS-wideCoverage across the WebMD US content catalog

PolicyMetadata-onlyFacts and structure, not article reproduction

FreshnessReal-timeRatings and pricing checked on every request

WebMD API Endpoints

A small set of endpoints that cover the whole content lifecycle.

Method	Endpoint	Description	Typical use
GET	/v1/webmd/drugs	Drug metadata by name, class & filters	Drug database monitoring
GET	/v1/webmd/drug-reviews	Aggregated rating breakdown by drug	Patient-sentiment research
GET	/v1/webmd/conditions	Condition topics, reviewer & last-reviewed date	Content freshness research
GET	/v1/webmd/pill-identifier	Candidate matches by imprint, color & shape	Identification-tool research
GET	/v1/webmd/rx-pricing	Discount price listings by pharmacy	Drug price benchmarking
POST	/v1/webmd/bulk	Submit up to 10,000 drug or topic IDs per batch job	Database-wide monitoring

Live API Response Example

This is exactly what comes back. No extra parsing needed.

Popular WebMD API Use Cases

Built for the teams that live and die by WebMD data.

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Drug database monitoring

Track drug listings, forms, and monograph coverage changes over time.

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Patient-sentiment research

Analyze effectiveness and satisfaction rating trends across drug classes.

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Rx price benchmarking

Compare discount pricing across pharmacies and quantities.

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Content freshness auditing

Measure how recently condition content was medically reviewed.

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Pharma market intelligence

Track review volume and rating shifts around new drug launches.

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Identifier-tool research

Study pill identifier coverage across imprints, colors, and shapes.

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Competitive benchmarking

Compare content coverage and review depth against other health publishers.

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ML training data

Generate labeled drug, rating, and taxonomy datasets for health-search models.

How the WebMD API Works

From API key to structured data in five steps.

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Get your API key

Sign up and generate a key from your dashboard in under two minutes.

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Choose an endpoint

Pick /drugs, /drug-reviews, /conditions or /rx-pricing depending on what you need.

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Send the request

Call the endpoint with a drug name, condition topic, or imprint.

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We handle the hard part

Proxies, headless rendering, CAPTCHA-solving, and parsing all happen behind the scenes.

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Receive structured data

Get clean JSON or CSV back in seconds, ready to drop into your pipeline.

Developer-Friendly Integration

Built by people who read the docs too.

One consistent JSON schema across every category and every endpoint. No SDK lock-in — plain REST calls work from any language or platform.

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Predictable REST design

Standard HTTP verbs, query params, and status codes — nothing proprietary to learn.

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JSON, CSV, or webhook delivery

Get results inline, as a downloadable file, or pushed to your endpoint when a batch job finishes.

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Sandbox & test keys

Free sandbox environment with sample drug IDs so you can build before you pay.

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Postman collection & SDK snippets

Import a ready-made collection or copy request snippets for Python, Node.js, and cURL.

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API Performance & Reliability

Numbers we publish because we track them daily.

99.9%

Uptime SLA

<3s

Avg. response time

99.3%

Successful extraction rate

10K+

Concurrent requests supported

Security & Compliance

Health content needs clear boundaries — here's where ours sit.

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No personal health data

We never collect symptom-checker inputs, account data, saved health profiles, or any personal health information. Output is public page metadata only.

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Metadata, not republication

Responses return structured facts such as ratings, dates, and taxonomy — not full article text. Health content is copyrighted, and responses are not a substitute for the source.

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Informational use only

Returned data is not medical advice, and clinical decisions should never be built directly on scraped listings. We recommend legal and clinical review of any health-facing product.

✓ISO 9001:2015 Certified ✓ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certified ✓IAF Multilateral Recognition ✓GDPR-aligned workflows

API Documentation & Resources

Everything to go from key to production.

Guide

Quickstart Guide

Get your first API response back in under five minutes.

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Reference

Full API Reference

Every endpoint, parameter, and response field documented in detail.

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Tool

Postman Collection

Import ready-made requests for every WebMD API endpoint.

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Code

SDKs & Code Samples

Python, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby snippets for every use case.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Still deciding? Here's what most teams ask first.

We collect only publicly accessible page metadata using automated tools, following publicly available web-data guidelines. WebMD content is copyrighted, so we return structured facts rather than article text. We recommend reviewing your own use case with legal counsel, especially for redistribution.

No. We never collect anything a user enters into health tools, any account or profile data, or any personal health information. Responses contain only public catalog and page metadata.

Every request to /drugs, /drug-reviews, and /rx-pricing triggers a live pull — you're not reading from a stale cache. Each response is timestamped because ratings and discount prices change over time.

Yes — /conditions returns the reviewer name and credential and the last-reviewed date as displayed, which makes it straightforward to audit content freshness at scale.

Our infrastructure retries automatically across a rotating proxy pool. You're only billed for successfully returned responses.

Yes, every account starts with a free sandbox key and sample credits so you can test all endpoints before committing to a plan.

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