Scraping online pharmacies in Japan — price & assortment monitoring
Pharmacy e-commerce scraping in Japan: INN, dosage forms, prices and per-store availability.
Pharmacy is the most structured e-commerce segment in Japan: a medicine has an INN, dosage, form and manufacturer. We collect these attributes in full, so analogues match correctly — by active ingredient, not by name.
This list counts 3 stores; the leaders by domain authority: Matsumoto Kiyoshi, Tsuruha, Sundrug. We collect data from large multi-level catalogs and niche shops alike: everything lands in one structure, so prices and assortment compare directly.
Brands you will meet across these stores include matsukiyo, Shiseido, Kao, Kose, Kanebo. The product-to-brand mapping ships with the data: convenient for distribution control and shelf comparison.
Delivery is tailored to the task: from a one-off Excel/CSV file to a stream of updates via API or into your DBMS. We start with a free data sample — you verify structure and quality before any payment.
Fields we collect: Pharmacy & Health
The baseline set for this category — extended to fit your task.
trade name, INN, manufacturer, URL
dosage form, strength, pack size
price, old price, loyalty price
stock, pharmacies and cities, delivery times
prescription/OTC, restrictions
indications, contraindications, composition
Jobs this scraping gets done
Medicines and analogues across pharmacy chains.
Your products’ availability in key chains.
INN-level mapping: what substitutes what.
Items disappearing from chain availability.
Stores in this category in Japan
Ranked by domain authority — price scraping and scheduled price monitoring are available for any platform below.
| # | Store | DR |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matsumoto Kiyoshi |
71 |
| 2 | Tsuruha |
70 |
| 3 | Sundrug |
65 |
DR (Domain Rating) — domain authority on a 0–100 scale; it reflects link-profile strength, not sales.
Top platforms: what gets scraped
Quick notes on the leaders of this list — any of them can be plugged into the same field structure.
For Matsumoto Kiyoshi we collect medicine, form & dosage — with change history — useful for repricing and assortment control.
From Tsuruha we usually extract form & dosage, prices, availability. The export arrives in the same structure as the rest of this list, so the data compares directly.
For Sundrug we set up recurring collection: prices, availability, dispensing status. Cadence ranges from a one-off export to several refreshes a day.
From request to first delivery
Scope the task
We fix the stores, fields, catalog depth and refresh frequency.
Free sample
A data fragment in the agreed structure — before any payment.
Collect & validate
Full collection with completeness and consistency checks.
Deliver & refresh
File, API or database — refreshed on your schedule.
Frequently asked questions
Do you match analogues by active ingredient?
Can availability be tracked per pharmacy?
Do you cover only the OTC segment?
Other categories: Japan
Store scraping for other categories in the same geography.