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Superdrug Data Scraping

In the UK a prescription-only medicine cannot be advertised to the public. Online doctors show a starting price and a questionnaire instead.

Superdrug data scraping covers health and beauty retail data and the published pricing of Superdrug's Online Doctor. UK rules do not allow prescription-only medicines to be advertised to the public, so online doctor services present a treatment as the possible outcome of a consultation, often with a "from" price on an inner page. That is recorded as a from-price, with consultation_required: true — and no consultation is ever started to see more. No patient data, no prescriptions and no individual health information are collected, and reviews that disclose a condition are excluded.

Two businesses share the site: a health and beauty shop and a clinical service. They are collected on different terms.

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superdrug_sample.jsonl LIVE FEED

{"section":"online_doctor","service_name":"as listed","from_price":19.99,"consultation_required":true} {"consultation_started":false,"questionnaire_data":null} {"section":"retail","legal_category":"P","price":4.99}

illustrative sample rows · GBa from-price is a from-price · schema v1.0

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Superdrug at a glance

How we handle Superdrug specifically

Platform-specific handling, not a generic retail template pointed at a different domain.

Retailer: Superdrug — A.S. Watson, UK
Retail: Health and beauty, own-label heavy
Online Doctor: Consultation first; treatment is an outcome
POM prices: "From" prices on inner pages, where published
So: from_price with consultation_required
Consultations: Never started
Sister chains: Watsons in Asia — same group
Refresh: Daily retail; weekly for service pricing

Platform specifics

A shop and a clinic on one site

These are the reasons a Superdrug dataset needs its own handling rather than a shared retail schema.

How UK online doctors show prices

UK advertising rules and MHRA guidance do not allow prescription-only medicines to be promoted to the public. Online doctor services therefore lead with the consultation, and may list prices on inner pages, presented as the possible outcome of a prescriber's decision.

from_price recorded exactly as published, labelled as a starting price, never as the price of a treatment.
consultation_required recorded as true.
service_fee recorded separately where stated.
Treatment names recorded only as the page lists them; no page is reached by answering a questionnaire.

So the Online Doctor output is a published price list, with its conditions, and nothing more.

Retail, the group and what we do not do

The health and beauty shop

The retail side is collected like any retailer: product, pack, price, promotions, own-label flag and legal_category for medicines on sale.

Watsons

Superdrug is part of A.S. Watson, which trades as Watsons across Asia — see our Watsons page.

What we do not do

Start, answer or pass a consultation, present a from-price as a treatment price, or collect patient, prescription or health data.

Scope

What we collect on Superdrug, and what we do not

The right column matters more than the left. Anyone can list fields; the limits are what tell you whether the dataset will hold up.

✅ What we collect

from_price exactly as published, labelled
consultation_required on every service price
service_fee recorded separately where stated
Retail products with legal_category as stated
Own-label flagged
Pack size and unit price as displayed
Promotions recorded as terms
Weekly refresh of service price lists
No consultation ever started

❌ What we do not, and why

Consultations started, answered or passed
A from-price presented as a treatment price
Questionnaire content of any kind
Reviews that disclose a condition
Patient, prescription or health data

Core Superdrug fields

The full dictionary is agreed during scoping. These are the fields specific to this platform.

Field	What it is on this platform
section	retail or online_doctor
product_id / brand / name	Retail, as published
price / currency	Retail, as displayed
legal_category	GSL, P, as stated
service_name	Online Doctor, as listed
from_price	As published
consultation_required	true
service_fee	Where stated
offer_terms	Retail promotions
own_label	true or false
observed_at	Timestamp

Use cases

What teams do with Superdrug data

UK health and beauty pricing

Superdrug's retail range against Boots, on one schedule.

Online doctor price lists

Published starting prices across UK services, labelled as such.

Own-label strategy

Own-label share and price gaps by category.

Service fee tracking

Consultation and service fees where published.

The 24-hour sample — run on your sources, not ours

Send us a Superdrug item or category list. We run real collection against it and return the output within 24 hours, with the platform-specific fields populated so you can check them yourself rather than take our word for it.

Real extraction from your actual sources
Returned within 24 hours
Coverage and QA note included
You keep the data either way
No card, no trial clock
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How we engage

Three ways to engage us

Same collection pipeline and QA underneath. The difference is who holds the schedule and how the data reaches you.

Managed service (most common)

We own the collection, the QA and the delivery. You receive clean data on a schedule and never touch a scraper.

Dedicated engineer assigned to your account
Site changes fixed by us, not reported to you
Scheduled delivery to your warehouse or S3
Named contact on Slack or email

Best fit: Teams who need the data, not the infrastructure.

API access

The same collection pipeline exposed as an authenticated REST endpoint your systems query directly.

On-demand and scheduled endpoints
Rate limits agreed to your load profile
Sandbox keys for integration testing
Versioned schema with deprecation notice

Best fit: Product and engineering teams building on live data.

One-time or project extraction

A defined pull for a specific question — market sizing, diligence, a pitch, a one-off audit.

Fixed scope agreed in writing upfront
Single delivery with full QA report
Methodology documented for your records
Converts to managed if you want continuity

Best fit: Research, strategy and diligence work with a deadline.

Pricing

Every engagement is quoted individually, because the honest answer depends on your scope: how many sources, how many records, how often, and how the data reaches you. We scope it with you, run a free pilot on your own sources, and then quote a fixed monthly figure — no per-request metering and no overage billing when volumes move. Request a quote and you will have a number after one call.

Superdrug is usually collected alongside its competitors

Almost nobody buys a single platform in isolation. Superdrug data becomes useful when it sits next to the competitor set on one schema, refreshed on one schedule, so a price index or availability comparison is genuinely like-for-like.

That is what healthcare & pharmacy data covers, and a Superdrug-only engagement can be expanded into it without rebuilding. If you already know you need several platforms, start there instead — it is the same pipeline and usually the better scoping conversation.

FAQ

Superdrug data scraping: frequently asked questions

Platform-specific questions, including what cannot be collected here.

Only the starting price a site publishes, labelled as a from-price. The actual treatment follows a prescriber's decision.

Never. No questionnaire is started or answered.

Because UK rules do not allow prescription-only medicines to be advertised to the public. Services lead with the consultation instead.

Yes, like any retailer, with medicines' legal category recorded.

Same group: A.S. Watson.

It depends on categories and whether service price lists are included.

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