CVS OTC product ingredients API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/cvs/product-ingredients/{slug}

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

CVS

Response schema

#/definitions/cvs.productIngredientsResponseDoc

Overview

Returns one CVS.com OTC (over-the-counter) retail product's ingredient/label statement: active ingredients, inactive ingredients, and the vendor's full free-text ingredient paragraph (which, for OTC drug products, frequently also carries a Drug Facts-style purpose note). This is sourced from the product's own dedicated ingredients page, a separate page from the main product detail endpoint. Covers the non-prescription retail catalog only -- this does not cover prescription items, pharmacy ordering, or any patient-specific data. slug is the segment of a product page URL after "/shop/", e.g. "e-l-f-16hr-camo-concealer-prodid-2370023"; a full https://www.cvs.com/shop/... URL is also accepted. Some products (particularly non-consumable goods) may return empty ingredient fields -- this reflects upstream having no label data for that product, not an error. CVS.com is only available from US/US-territory egress; a request from an unsupported region returns an upstream error rather than an empty result. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

3 credits/request

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Response behavior

- `active_ingredients` and `inactive_ingredients` are the vendor's own structured active/inactive ingredient fields when upstream populates them separately. Many products leave these empty and only populate the combined `paragraph` field below — prefer `paragraph` as the more complete source. - `paragraph` is the vendor's full free-text ingredient statement. For OTC drug products this frequently also carries a Drug Facts-style purpose note (e.g. `"Active Ingredient (in each drop): Menthol, 1.5 mg - Purpose: Oral anesthetic ..."`). - Some products (particularly non-consumable goods) return empty ingredient fields alongside a valid `id`/`title` — this reflects upstream having no label data for that product, not an error. - CVS.com is only available from US/US-territory egress; a request from an unsupported region, or a page CVS blocks, returns a `503` upstream error rather than an empty or wrong result. - An unrecognized `slug` returns a `400` invalid-parameter error before any upstream request is made. A well-formed but nonexistent product id returns a `404`. Example response: ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"id":"2370023","title":"e.l.f. 16hr Camo Concealer","paragraph":"Active Ingredients: WATER (AQUA), CYCLOPENTASILOXANE, ACRYLATES CROSSPOLYMER...Inactive Ingredients: Water, Cyclopentasiloxane, Acrylates Crosspolymer...","url":"https://www.cvs.com/shop/ingredients/e-l-f-16hr-camo-concealer-prodid-2370023","source_url":"https://www.cvs.com/shop/ingredients/e-l-f-16hr-camo-concealer-prodid-2370023","fetched_at":"2026-09-03T00:00:00Z"}} ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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