WebMd Drug Reviews

Data connector details

• Category: Pharma

• Connector type: Standard

Description

Use the WebMd Review connector to retrieve and analyze customer feedback on drugs produced by Pharma companies.

Data Limitations

• This data connector supports drugs that contain reviews.

• We restrict the url to match the medication summary. (example: https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-64439/abilify-oral/details)

Input fields

When setting up the connector, provide the URL of the drugs or medications for which you want to analyze.

• WebMd URL (*required): On the WebMd web site, navigate to the drug and from the address bar, copy the URL, then paste it into this field.

• Add new search: To analyze multiple versions of the product or multiple products, click this as many times as needed to add more URLs.

• Upload: Click to upload a file containing a list of product URLs. Takes a TXT file with one URL per line.
  (CSV is also acceptable, but it must have one URL per line.)

You can change your date range on the second page of the wizard, or optionally Schedule data crawls to update your data stream periodically.

Data dictionary

This connector returns the following fields that you can use in analysis.

crawler_time_stamp

• Description: Date and time on which the review was crawled.

• Category: meta

• Example: 1580160738652

data_source

• Description: Data source of the review.

• Category: meta

• Example: WebMD

EaseOfUseRating

• Description: Rating of the drugs ease of use.

• Category: KPI

• Example: 0

EffectivenessRating

• Description: Reviewer's rating for the drugs effectiveness.

• Category: KPI

• Example: 1

HelpfulCount

• Description: Number of people who found the review helpful.

• Category: KPI

• Example: 4

PageURL

• Description: URL of the drug search

• Category: meta

• Example: https://www.webmd.com/drugs/drugreview-166877-Triumeq-oral.aspx?drugid=166877&drugname=Triumeq-oral

Reviewer

• Description: Description of the reviewer. (Demographic data available here).

• Category: meta

• Example: 25-34 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)

ReviewDate

• Description: Date of the review.

• Category: meta

• Example: 1445440009000

ReviewDurgName

• Description: Name of the drug reviewed.

• Category: meta

• Example: abilify oral

ReviewVerbatim

• Description: Review content.

• Category: text index

• Example: As a 25-year survivor, I'm been on several regimens--this being the easiest (1 pill) and least side effects. Give it a try if the doc thinks you are a good candidate; be a positive thinker and hope it works.

ReviewWebpage

• Description: URL for the review details.

• Category: meta

• Example: https://www.webmd.com/drugs/drugreview-166877-oral.aspx?drugid=166877&drugname=166877&pageIndex=0&sortby=3&conditionFilter=-1

SatisfactionRating

• Description: Reviewer's rating for the drug.

• Category: KPI

• Example: 5