Scraping online pharmacies in New Zealand — price & assortment monitoring
Online pharmacies in New Zealand: medicines, dosages, prices, availability and active ingredients in one structure.
Prices for identical medicines across online pharmacies in New Zealand diverge notably, and availability shifts daily. Scheduled scraping gives pharma companies and aggregators a live picture: where each item stands, at what price, in what stock.
There are 5 platforms here, led by iHerb, Chemist Warehouse NZ, Life Pharmacy by domain authority. Site size is not a constraint: catalogs with hundreds of thousands of SKUs and small stores are normalized to the same field schema, making sellers directly comparable.
Shelves in this list carry BePure, BOMB, Delta Goodrem, Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, Quitnits and other brands — every product is linked to its brand in the feed, so you can track brand presence and pricing across sellers.
We deliver data the way you need it: one-off price scraping or scheduled refresh, in Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, Google Sheets, REST API or straight into your database. We agree the field structure upfront and send a free sample first.
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 New Zealand
Ranked by domain authority — price scraping and scheduled price monitoring are available for any platform below.
| # | Store | DR |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | iHerb |
84 |
| 2 | Chemist Warehouse NZ |
66 |
| 3 | Life Pharmacy |
58 |
| 4 | HealthPost |
57 |
| 5 | Bargain Chemist |
51 |
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 iHerb we collect medicine, form & dosage — with change history — useful for repricing and assortment control.
On Life Pharmacy we track the catalog and prices — form & dosage, prices — one-off or on a schedule. Delivered as a file, via API or straight into your database.
For HealthPost we set up recurring collection: prices, availability, dispensing status. Cadence ranges from a one-off export to several refreshes a day.
For Bargain Chemist we set up recurring collection: availability, dispensing status, leaflet data. Cadence ranges from a one-off export to several refreshes a day.
From request to first delivery
Request & brief
Pick platforms from the list, define fields and cadence.
Data sample
We show the structure on a real catalog fragment, free.
Full collection
Entire catalogs, with quality and dedup control.
Data delivery
Excel, CSV, JSON, API or your DBMS — one-off or scheduled.
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: New Zealand
Store scraping for other categories in the same geography.