You can access the openFDA Drug Search programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "query": "aspirin" }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("flamelit_arowana/openfda-drug-search").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

openFDA Drug Search API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use openFDA Drug Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

openFDA Drug Search API in JavaScript

openFDA Drug Search API through CLI

openFDA Drug Search OpenAPI definition

openFDA Drug Search API

OpenFDA Drug Search — FDA Label & Safety Data API

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CMS Hospice Compare — Provider Records API

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CMS Hospice Compare data: 6,800+ Medicare-certified hospice providers with provider, location, ownership, and quality ratings. For healthcare analysts, payers, and hospice-sector M&A.

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CMS Dialysis Facility Compare — Provider Data API

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CMS Dialysis Facility Compare data: 7,500+ Medicare-certified dialysis facilities with provider, location, ownership, and quality ratings. For healthcare analysts, payers, and dialysis-sector M&A.

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FDA Purple Book — Biologics & Biosimilars API

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Search the FDA Purple Book: licensed biologics, biosimilars, and interchangeables with reference-product linkage and exclusivity-expiry dates that signal when biosimilar competition can begin. For biosimilar developers, pharma investors, and IP/regulatory teams.

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CMS Open Payments Pro — Sunshine Act + NPI API

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Sunshine Act pharma-to-physician payments enriched with NPI Registry specialty + practice address. Per (physician × manufacturer) intensity signal. Consulting / speaking / meal / travel / research filters. Compliance, plaintiff law, payer audit, medical journalism.

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FDA Adverse Events — FAERS & MAUDE Records API

nexgendata/fda-adverse-events-faers-maude

Signal-scored adverse-event feed from openFDA FAERS (drugs) + MAUDE (devices). Returns reports with seriousness flags, MedDRA Preferred Terms, and PRR disproportionality signal per drug-event pair. For pharmacovigilance, mass-tort plaintiff intake, device compliance, medical journalism.

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FDA Orange Book Scraper

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Search public FDA Orange Book / Drugs@FDA records by brand, generic, ingredient, sponsor, or application number for pharma research.

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Medical Device Records — FDA 510(k) & PMA API

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Track FDA medical device 510(k) clearances and recalls from official openFDA data: applicant, device, product code, class, decision date, and Class I/II/III recall severity. For medtech intelligence.

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FDA & Healthcare Intelligence MCP — 15 Tools for AI Agents

nexgendata/healthcare-fda-intelligence-mcp

MCP server exposing FDA, CDC, NIH, PubMed and clinical-trials data as 15 agent tools. Connect Claude, Cursor, n8n or the OpenAI Agents SDK. Not medical advice.

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CMS Open Payments — Pharma-to-Doctor Records API

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Scrape CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) records — physician name, NPI, payment amount, payment type, manufacturer, drug or device, date. Filter by physician, NPI, manufacturer, year. ProPublica Dollars-for-Docs alternative for pharma compliance officers, healthcare journalists, academic researchers.

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