openFDA Drug Labels — Warnings, Dosage and Ingredients

Search FDA drug labels — brand and generic name, manufacturer, warnings, dosage and ingredients.

Source: the US FDA's openFDA. Free, no key.

What you get

brandName, genericName, manufacturer, productType, route, substance, purpose, warnings, dosage, activeIngredient, effectiveDate, version, id.

Sample output

{ "brandName": "Advil", "genericName": "IBUPROFEN", "manufacturer": "Haleon US Holdings LLC",
  "purpose": "Pain reliever", "route": "ORAL" }

Limitations — read before buying

• ⚠️ This is the LABEL, not the approval or the evidence. A label is what the manufacturer filed; it is not a finding that the drug works.
• search takes openFDA's OWN query syntax (openfda.brand_name:"advil", AND, +), not plain words. A malformed query returns HTTP 400 rather than an empty result.
• Every field arrives as a LIST, even when there is one value, so the first element is taken — a drug with two brand names shows one.
• Text fields are whitespace-normalised and truncated (warnings to 1,500 characters, dosage to 1,000).
• effective_time is a YYYYMMDD STRING, and version increments as the label is revised — so one drug has many rows over time.
• 262,000+ labels, so a broad search is large.

Pricing

Pay per result.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
brandName	string	Brand the product is sold under.
genericName	string	Generic or non-proprietary name, where the source publishes one.
manufacturer	string	Name of the manufacturing organisation as reported. Free text, and not matched to any register, so the same firm appears under several spellings.
productType	string	Product type as the merchant categorises it.
route	string	Route of administration, as the label states it, e.g. ORAL.
substance	string	Active substance the product contains.
purpose	string	The label's stated purpose for the product, in the manufacturer's words. A marketing and regulatory statement, not a clinical claim.
warnings	string	Warnings the label carries. Whitespace-normalised and truncated, so read the source label for the full text.
dosage	string	Dosage instructions the label gives. Truncated, and it is the label's text rather than advice.
activeIngredient	string	Active ingredients with their strengths, as the label lists them.
effectiveDate	string	ISO 8601 date the record takes effect.
version	string	Version of this record or artefact.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• openFDA Drug Labels — Warnings, Dosage and Ingredients declares all 12 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of openFDA Drug Labels include brandName, genericName, manufacturer, productType, route and substance.
• openFDA Drug Labels needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of openFDA Drug Labels's 4 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• openFDA Drug Labels documents genericName as: Generic or non-proprietary name, where the source publishes one.
• Every number published about openFDA Drug Labels is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• openFDA Drug Labels is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does openFDA Drug Labels return?

It returns 12 documented output fields — brandName, genericName, manufacturer, productType, route, substance, purpose and warnings — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does openFDA Drug Labels require to run?

Nothing. All 4 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does openFDA Drug Labels need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is openFDA Drug Labels billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.