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Access Blink Health medication pricing, formulations, brand/generic mappings, and nearby pharmacy data via 6 structured API endpoints.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/1b2b7ddd-439b-4d3c-927e-58cfc448642c/get_drug_pricing?slug=atorvastatin' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Retrieve pricing information for a specific medication by drug name or slug. Returns pricing for home delivery, local pickup, and retail estimates across all forms and dosages.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| slugrequired | string | The medication slug or name (e.g., 'metformin', 'lipitor', 'atorvastatin'). |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"slug": "string — URL slug identifier",
"forms": "array of form objects containing dosages and pricing",
"drug_name": "string — display name of the medication",
"generic_name": "string or null — generic equivalent name"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"slug": "atorvastatin",
"forms": [
{
"dosages": [
{
"med_id": "170427",
"quantities": [
{
"pricing": {
"local_pickup": {
"price": "$7.80",
"raw_price": 7.8,
"percent_off_retail": "81%"
},
"home_delivery": {
"price": "$5.79",
"raw_price": 5.79,
"percent_off_retail": "86%"
},
"retail_estimated": {
"price": "$41.98",
"raw_price": 41.98284
}
},
"raw_quantity": 30,
"display_quantity": "30 Tablets",
"formatted_description": "30 Tablets, 10 mg"
}
],
"display_dosage": "10 mg"
}
],
"display_form": "Tablet"
}
],
"drug_name": "atorvastatin",
"generic_name": "atorvastatin calcium"
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the blinkhealth.com API
The Blink Health API exposes 6 endpoints covering medication pricing, available formulations, and participating pharmacy locations across the United States. Use get_drug_pricing to retrieve home delivery and local pickup prices for every dosage and form of a given drug, or call get_nearby_pharmacies with a ZIP code to get a list of network pharmacies with addresses, phone numbers, and distances. The full preferred drug list runs to thousands of medications.
Medication Pricing and Formulations
The get_drug_pricing endpoint accepts a slug parameter (e.g., 'metformin' or 'atorvastatin') and returns a structured response containing forms — an array of form objects each with available dosages and pricing for home delivery, local pickup, and retail estimates. The response also includes drug_name and generic_name, so you can immediately tell whether you're looking at a brand or a generic product. For cases where you only need structure without prices, get_drug_formulations returns the same forms array with dosages and available quantities but no pricing data. Note that not all drugs are supported by this endpoint; some may return an upstream error.
Drug Search and Brand/Generic Mapping
search_drug accepts a query string and returns a results array of matching medication objects, each containing name, slug, and generic_name. It performs a direct slug-based lookup, so results are limited to exact or near-exact matches; an unrecognized query returns an empty results array. The get_brand_to_generic_mapping endpoint takes a slug and works in both directions — pass 'lipitor' and get atorvastatin as the generic_name, or pass a generic slug to confirm its brand relationship.
Pharmacy Lookup and Drug Catalog
get_nearby_pharmacies takes a 5-digit US zip_code (leading zeros preserved, e.g., '02134') and returns a pharmacies array with each entry's name, address, phone, distance, and network_status. For a full inventory of supported medications, get_preferred_drug_list requires no inputs and returns count (an integer) plus a drugs array of every medication slug available on Blink Health — useful for building autocomplete indexes or bulk pricing jobs.
- Compare home delivery vs. local pickup prices for a specific medication using
get_drug_pricingresponse fields. - Build a pharmacy locator tool that surfaces network pharmacies and distances from a user-supplied ZIP code.
- Map brand-name prescriptions to generic equivalents using
get_brand_to_generic_mappingto identify cost-saving alternatives. - Populate a drug autocomplete search field by indexing the full medication catalog from
get_preferred_drug_list. - Display all available dosages and quantities for a drug using
get_drug_formulationsbefore showing pricing. - Track retail price estimates across dosages for a medication to identify the most cost-effective formulation.
- Validate whether a drug name is supported on Blink Health before making pricing calls using
search_drug.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Blink Health have an official developer API?+
What does `get_drug_pricing` return beyond a single price?+
forms array covering every available form of the drug (e.g., tablet, capsule, extended-release). Each form object contains dosages and pricing broken out by delivery method — home delivery, local pickup, and retail estimate — so you can compare options across the full product surface for a given medication.Does `get_drug_formulations` always return data for every medication?+
forms array. For those cases, get_drug_pricing may still succeed and implicitly expose form and dosage structure through its response.Does the API return insurance coverage details or co-pay information?+
Is pharmacy data available outside the United States?+
get_nearby_pharmacies accepts 5-digit US ZIP codes and returns participating pharmacies within the Blink Health network. Non-US locations are not covered. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it if you need to target a different regional pharmacy data source.