medication-information-research

Retrieve source-attributed GoodRx medication and health information with author and review dates. Treat it as secondary material; safety-critical claims remain unverified without official source text. Not for personalized diagnosis, dosing, or treatment decisions.

Build a concise, source-linked explanation from public GoodRx medication and health pages. This workflow retrieves information; it does not diagnose, select a medicine, recommend a dose, or decide whether a treatment is suitable for a person or animal.

Access and source limits

Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY and use the bundled scripts/crawlora.sh. Its allowlist contains GoodRx read-only routes only; it sends the key to Crawlora over HTTPS, not to GoodRx or FDA. Check HTTP status and the application code; stop on authentication errors, back off on 429, and retry a transient upstream failure once. Bound page requests to the user's question. Do not submit medical or prescription data, and do not use generic web-search or URL-scrape routes through this skill.

GoodRx is an editorial secondary source. Preserve its article URL, authors, medical reviewers, and published/modified/reviewed dates where returned. GoodRx states that clinically focused content is medically reviewed and that its site is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Its editorial review does not make a page an FDA-approved label. The REST helper returns JSON without HTTP response headers, so it may not expose GoodRx's retained-response status. Keep retrieval time separate from source review dates and do not claim that a fetch was live. If current freshness is material, verify against the original page and report any uncertainty.

Find the right GoodRx material

1. Resolve the user-named medication or condition from the directory routes. Use /goodrx/drugs or /goodrx/brands for drug identity; /goodrx/classes and /goodrx/class for GoodRx's class directory; and /goodrx/conditions and /goodrx/condition for condition pages. A directory association is not a clinical recommendation.
2. For a drug guide, list /goodrx/drug-guides and use only a returned slug/topic pair with /goodrx/drug-guide. The supported topics are side-effects, dosage, and interactions; a missing guide is not a negative finding. Preserve the guide's reviewer, last-reviewed date, and source URL when present.
3. Use /goodrx/drug-info for the general medication page and its FAQs, warnings, contraindications, references, and comparison links. For pets, resolve the slug from /goodrx/pet-medications and set audience=pets; label veterinary content separately and do not transfer it to humans.
4. Use /goodrx/health-topics to discover a section/topic pair, then /goodrx/health-articles and /goodrx/health-article for a bounded article sample. Preserve author, medical reviewer, publication/modification dates, references, and article path. /goodrx/answers and /goodrx/answer provide GoodRx's short question-and-answer content; keep the question and linked article together.
5. Use /goodrx/comparisons and /goodrx/comparison only when the user asks how two named medicines are described. Preserve GoodRx's stated takeaways; do not turn a comparison into a treatment ranking or substitute choice.

Interpret claims and write the brief

• For dosage, contraindications, interactions, pregnancy, children, serious side effects, or other safety-critical claims, do not treat GoodRx as an official source. The bundled helper cannot fetch FDA, DailyMed, or MedlinePlus pages. If official source text is already available in the user's materials, match the drug, formulation, and route before summarizing it; a link alone is not verification. Otherwise label the point GoodRx-only or not independently verified and direct the user to the official label and a qualified clinician or pharmacist.
• Do not bridge a missing population, formulation, or product with an assumption, or use generic web endpoints to expand this skill's source scope.
• Keep source statements separate from your plain-language summary. Preserve the exact source section, link, publication/review date, and retrieval time. A GoodRx list of condition-related medicines, FAQ, or alternative is not evidence that a drug is appropriate for a particular person.
• Do not give patient-specific dosing or interaction advice, advise starting, stopping, switching, or combining medicines, interpret symptoms, or replace a clinician/pharmacist. Refer those decisions to a qualified professional; urgent symptoms require local emergency help.
• Do not compare coupon prices in this skill; use prescription-price-research for user-requested price comparisons.

sh

scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drug-guides topic=interactions letter=t
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drug-guide slug=torsemide topic=interactions
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/health-topics section=well-being
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/health-articles section=well-being topic=sleep page=1 page_size=10
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/health-article path=well-being/sleep/cbd-for-sleep

The deliverable should identify the question and population, summarize the relevant GoodRx page, link each source, retain review/publication dates, and list unsupported or conflicting claims. Identify any safety-critical point that is GoodRx-only or not independently verified. This is not a personalized medical answer.