| --- |
| pretty_name: DrugHub Market Snapshot (September 2026) |
| license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| tags: |
| - darknet |
| - marketplace |
| - drug-policy |
| - measurement |
| - reviews |
| configs: |
| - config_name: listings |
| data_files: listing_pages.parquet |
| - config_name: shipping_options |
| data_files: shipping_options.parquet |
| - config_name: bulk_options |
| data_files: bulk_options.parquet |
| - config_name: vendors |
| data_files: vendor_pages.parquet |
| - config_name: reviews |
| data_files: reviews.parquet |
| - config_name: vendor_pgp_keys |
| data_files: vendor_pgp_keys.parquet |
| - config_name: vendor_listing_titles |
| data_files: vendor_listing_titles.parquet |
| - config_name: rosters |
| data_files: rosters.parquet |
| - config_name: roster_entries |
| data_files: roster_entries.parquet |
| - config_name: category_counts |
| data_files: category_counts.parquet |
| - config_name: category_count_entries |
| data_files: category_count_entries.parquet |
| - config_name: fetch_log |
| data_files: fetch_log.parquet |
| - config_name: listing_enrichment |
| data_files: listing_enrichment.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # DrugHub Market Snapshot, September 2026 |
|
|
| A complete, text-only capture of the public listing, vendor, and review pages of |
| DrugHub, a Monero-only darknet market operating since 2023. Everything here was |
| visible to any visitor without an account. Doesn't include any images. |
|
|
| Collected 16-17 September 2026. Enriched with model-derived labels |
| (`typesafe/jev-1.13`) on 19 September 2026; see the `listing_enrichment` |
| table and the Enrichment section below. |
|
|
| ## What's in it |
|
|
| | Table | Rows | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `listings` | 22,621 | One row per listing page: title, category, description, refund policy, prices, stock, shipping, unit, minimum order, vendor stats as shown on the listing. | |
| | `shipping_options` | 57,982 | Shipping methods per listing with XMR and fiat prices. | |
| | `bulk_options` | 82,135 | Bulk price tiers per listing. | |
| | `vendors` | 9,418 | One row per vendor page fetched (profile plus each review page). Profile stats, seven average ratings, about text. Filter `page_r = 0` for one row per vendor (1,598). | |
| | `reviews` | 423,003 | Every review on the site: listing title, date, and seven percentage scores. | |
| | `vendor_pgp_keys` | 1,676 | PGP public keys as published on vendor profiles. | |
| | `vendor_listing_titles` | 35,793 | Every listing title each vendor has been reviewed on, including delisted ones. | |
| | `rosters`, `roster_entries` | 91 / 145,422 | Snapshots of the sidebar vendor roster with feedback percentages, deduplicated by content. | |
| | `category_counts`, `category_count_entries` | 16 / 1,888 | Snapshots of the category tree with listing counts. | |
| | `listing_enrichment` | 22,621 | Model-derived labels per listing (language, substance, form, purity claim, and 12 other fields). See "Enrichment" below. | |
| | `fetch_log` | 35,402 | Every HTTP fetch made, including failures, with timestamp, status, and content hash. Page bodies are not included. | |
|
|
| Every parsed row carries a `fetch_id` that points into `fetch_log`, and a |
| `fetched_at` unix timestamp. |
|
|
| ## Coverage |
|
|
| - **Listings:** 22,621 of the 22,641 discovered; the other 20 were removed by |
| the site during the crawl. 434 are digital goods with no shipping |
| destination. |
| - **Vendors:** 1,598 of 1,601 on the roster; 3 profiles returned 404. |
| - **Reviews:** all review pages of all vendors, July 2023 to 17 September 2026. |
| 1,416 vendors have at least one review. |
|
|
| ## Listings by category |
|
|
| | Category | Listings | Subcategories | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | Drugs | 20,429 | 67 | |
| | Forgeries / Counterfeits | 1,540 | 4 | |
| | Services | 415 | 11 | |
| | Software | 228 | 5 | |
| | Defense / Counter Intel | 9 | 4 | |
|
|
| Largest subcategories: Prescription Drugs (3,080), Cannabis - Buds and Flowers |
| (3,079), Steroids (1,353), Benzos - Pills (1,337), Stimulants - Cocaine (964), |
| Watches (838), Dissociatives - Ketamine (794), Psychedelics - LSD (617). |
|
|
| Shipping origins are led by the United States (6,093), United Kingdom (4,286), |
| India (2,616), Germany (2,216), China (1,897), and Australia (1,267). Prices are |
| quoted in XMR plus one of USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, or CAD; the site's own exchange |
| rates at fetch time are on every row (`xmr_usd`, `xmr_eur`, ...). |
|
|
| ## Reviews by year |
|
|
| | Year | Reviews | |
| |---|---| |
| | 2023 | 23 | |
| | 2024 | 12,515 | |
| | 2025 | 150,520 | |
| | 2026 (to 17 Sep) | 259,945 | |
|
|
| ## Things to know before using it |
|
|
| - **Prices are as displayed.** Nothing has been converted. Use the per-row |
| exchange rates or your own historical series. |
| - **Reviews have no identifier and no text.** They are numeric scores plus a |
| date, listed newest first. Their position on a page can shift as new reviews |
| arrive, so a small number may be duplicated across page boundaries. Reviews |
| with identical (vendor, listing title, date, scores) are common and mostly |
| genuine; the data has not been deduplicated. |
| - **Reviews reference listing titles, not ids.** Joining on (vendor, title) |
| matches about 63% of reviews to a current listing. The rest are on delisted, |
| renamed, or private listings. |
| - **Relative dates are stored as shown** ("21 months ago", "Today"). Resolve |
| them against `fetched_at`. |
| - **`vendors` is one row per page**, so profile stats repeat across a vendor's |
| review pages. Filter `page_r = 0` unless you want the review pages. |
| - **Vendor ratings are near-uniform** (80% of vendors at 98-100%). Cancellation |
| and dispute counts carry more signal. |
| - **Free text is raw.** Descriptions keep their original line breaks and any |
| decorative characters. The site enforces a 50-character minimum and roughly a |
| 10,000-character maximum. |
| - **Category is the market's own tree**, not a normalised taxonomy. About 10% of |
| listings are outside the Drugs category. |
|
|
| ## Enrichment (model-derived, not ground truth) |
|
|
| `listing_enrichment` holds one row per listing with labels produced by |
| `typesafe/jev-1.13`, a classification-only model that picks from options we |
| define and returns a probability distribution. Every enumeration includes an |
| escape option (`other_listed_class`, `not_stated`, `unknown`, ...), and each |
| choice column has a companion `<field>_p` with the probability of the chosen |
| option. `answers_json` carries the full distributions. Treat these as |
| annotations to be thresholded, not facts. |
|
|
| | Field | Type | What it answers | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `language` | choice | Primary language of the description (ISO code, `mixed`, `other`, `unknown`) | |
| | `substance` | choice | Substance sold, from a per-subcategory vocabulary (Drugs only) | |
| | `product_type` | choice | Product kind for non-drug categories | |
| | `form` | choice | Physical form (pill, powder, crystal, flower, vape, blister_pack, ...) | |
| | `purity_claim` | choice | Stated purity/potency bucket (`none`, `under_50`, `50_79`, `80_94`, `95_plus`) | |
| | `lab_tested` | 0-1 | Claims lab testing | |
| | `pharma_claim` | choice | Presented as genuine pharmaceutical, replica/pressed, or not applicable | |
| | `counterfeit_risk` | 0-1 | Imitates a pharmaceutical product (branded press, fake blister, RC substitution) | |
| | `quantity_stated` | choice | Whether the price maps to a stated quantity | |
| | `wholesale` | 0-1 | Bulk/wholesale orientation | |
| | `stealth_described` | 0-1 | Packaging/stealth described | |
| | `tracking` | choice | Tracked, untracked, both, not stated | |
| | `fe_required` | 0-1 | Vendor asks for Finalize Early / early escrow release | |
| | `external_contact` | choice | Mentions an outside channel (see caveat) | |
| | `cross_market` | 0-1 | Mentions history on another darknet market | |
| | `harm_reduction` | 0-1 | Contains dosing guidance or safety warnings | |
| | `fentanyl_mention` | choice | `none`, `claims_free`, `contains`, `warning` | |
| | `text_style` | choice | `terse`, `handwritten`, `marketing`, `template`, `other` | |
|
|
| Notes: |
|
|
| - `prompt_version` is `2` for most rows and `3` for Prescription Drugs, |
| Peptides, Steroids, and Benzos - Pills, where the substance vocabulary was |
| expanded after a first pass. All other questions are identical across |
| versions. |
| - `substance` vocabularies were built from title-token frequencies per |
| subcategory. Prescription Drugs uses therapeutic-class buckets for the long |
| tail; about 12% of that subcategory still lands in `other_listed_class`. |
| - `external_contact` has low precision: its `other_platform` value often |
| reflects a mention of another site or market rather than an actual handle. |
| - The model saw the title, category, unit, origin, and the first 2,500 |
| characters of the description. |
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