🇮🇳 India CDSCO Scraper: SUGAM Drug Approvals & Device Licence Data

Stop checking the government portal by hand Pull every new drug approval and medical device or IVD licence straight from India's CDSCO, the country's national drug and device regulator. Filter by year, month, drug name, licence type, or device category, and run it on a schedule to catch new filings as they're published.

💊 Full drug approval record Drug name, composition, dosage form, indication, manufacturer, every manufacturing site on file, and approval date

🩺 Device & IVD licences Device name, brand, model, risk class, intended use, licence number and issue date, and the licensing authority

🔁 Built for monitoring Run it on a schedule and get only newly published approvals or licences, not a repeated full export

🔓 No login, ever Reads the same free public data CDSCO itself publishes, no account or API key needed

CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) is India's national regulator for drugs and medical devices, the equivalent of the FDA for the world's largest generic-drug exporter and one of its fastest-growing medtech markets. This Actor reads CDSCO's own public systems directly: SUGAM for drug approvals, and the medical device portal for device and IVD licences. No login, no data broker, no waiting on a manual PDF search.

🔍 Who this is for

• Pharma regulatory-affairs consultants tracking what competitors are filing and getting approved in India, without refreshing the portal by hand every week.
• Generic-drug manufacturers watching approval precedent for their own filings: what compositions, dosage forms, and indications CDSCO is actually clearing.
• Market-access consultancies doing India market-entry assessments for foreign pharma and medtech clients who need current, structured regulatory data, not a scanned PDF.
• Medtech regulatory consultants tracking device and IVD risk classifications for clients bringing a product into the Indian market.

No other Apify Actor covers CDSCO or SUGAM today. This is the first structured, self-serve way to pull this specific data instead of searching the government portal manually or waiting on a subscription regulatory-intelligence service.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	enum	Yes	drugs (SUGAM drug approvals) or devices (medical device and IVD licences). Defaults to drugs.
useRecentApprovalsFeed	boolean	No	Drugs mode only. On by default: pulls the site's own latest-approvals feed. Turn off to search a specific year, month, or drug name instead.
searchText	string	No	Drugs mode only, used when the recent-approvals feed is off. Filters by a drug or brand name substring.
year	enum	No	Drugs mode only, used when the recent-approvals feed is off. Restricts results to one calendar year (2018-2026 at time of writing).
month	enum	No	Drugs mode only, used when the recent-approvals feed is off and a year is set. Restricts results to one month.
licenceType	enum	No	Devices mode only. Manufacturing (India-based manufacturers) or Import (foreign manufacturers/importers). Defaults to Manufacturing.
deviceCategory	enum	No	Devices mode only. IVD (in vitro diagnostics) or MD (general medical devices). Defaults to IVD.
deviceNameSearch	string	No	Devices mode only. Filters results by a device or brand name substring.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	No	Turns this Actor into a monitor: only returns approvals or licences it hasn't returned before, based on this Actor's own saved history. Ideal for a scheduled run. Off by default.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of records to return in this run (up to 5,000). Defaults to 25.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Pick a registry Drug approvals or medical device and IVD licences, with the filters you need.

STEP 2 The Actor reads CDSCO directly It queries CDSCO's own public systems, the same data the portal itself shows.

STEP 3 Get structured results Clean, structured records land in your dataset. Schedule it for ongoing alerts.

📤 Data table

Drug approvals and device licences share one dataset with different fields populated depending on mode. A changeType of NEW appears only when onlyNewSinceLastRun is on.

Field	Type	Description
drugName	string	Drug approvals only. The approved drug's name.
productName	string	Drug approvals only. The approved product/brand name.
composition	string	Drug approvals only. Active ingredient(s) and strength.
dosageForm	string	Drug approvals only. Tablet, injection, and so on.
indication	string	Drug approvals only. The approved medical use.
applicationType	string	Drug approvals only. The type of application approved, such as a finished formulation.
manufacturerName	string	Drug approvals only. The applicant manufacturer's registered name.
manufacturerAddress	string	Drug approvals only. The applicant manufacturer's registered address.
manufacturingSites	array of strings	Drug approvals only. Every manufacturing site address on file for this approval.
approvalDate	string	Drug approvals only. The date CDSCO closed/approved this application.
deviceName	string	Device licences only. The licensed device's name.
brandName	string	Device licences only. The device's brand name, when on file.
modelName	string	Device licences only. The device's model name, when on file.
deviceClass	string	Device licences only. The device's risk classification (Class A/B/C/D).
intendedUse	string	Device licences only. The device's stated intended use.
licenceType	string	Device licences only. Manufacturing or Import.
licenceCategory	string	Device licences only. MD (medical device) or IVD (in vitro diagnostic).
licenceNumber	string	Device licences only. The licence's registration number.
licenceIssuedOn	string	Device licences only. The date this licence was issued.
manufacturerOrImporterAddress	string	Device licences only. The manufacturer's or importer's registered address.
licensingAuthority	string	Device licences only. The state licensing authority that issued the licence.
changeType	string	Present only when monitoring is on. NEW for a record not returned by a previous run.
scrapedAt	string	When this record was retrieved.

Example output

{
  "drugName": "Vonoprazan",
  "productName": "Vonoprazan Tablets",
  "composition": "Vonoprazan Fumarate Eq. To Vonoprazan 10.0000 Milligram (Mg)",
  "dosageForm": "Tablets",
  "applicationType": "Finished Formulation",
  "manufacturerName": "M/s J.M. Laboratories",
  "manufacturerAddress": "Village. Bhanat, PO Ghatti, Subathu Road, Tehsil & Distt. Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India, 173211",
  "manufacturingSites": [
    "J M Laboratories, Vill. Bhanat, P.O. Ghatti, Subathu Road, Tehsil & Distt. Solan, Himachal Pradesh India-173212",
    "Metrochem Api Pvt Ltd, Unit-Iv, J.N. Pharma City, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh India-531021"
  ],
  "approvalDate": "2026-09-29",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T13:37:14.822Z"
}

{
  "deviceName": "ULTRA Dengue IgG Capture ELISA",
  "deviceClass": "Class B",
  "intendedUse": "Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the detection of anti-dengue IgG in human serum or plasma.",
  "licenceType": "Manufacturing",
  "licenceCategory": "IVD",
  "licenceNumber": "776-B(H)",
  "licenceIssuedOn": "28-MAR-2017",
  "manufacturerOrImporterAddress": "SD Biosensor Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, Plot no. 38, Sector 4, IMT Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana Pincode: 122052",
  "licensingAuthority": "SLA - Haryana",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T13:41:45.728Z"
}

💰 Pricing

This Actor is pay per result, with no subscription and no charge for an empty run. You only pay for the records you actually get back. Free plan runs are limited to 25 records per run, 3 runs per day, and a short wait between runs. Upgrade to a paid Apify plan for unrestricted use.

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❓ FAQ

Is this data legal to access? Yes. CDSCO publishes both the drug approvals feed and the device/IVD licence registry as free, public data on its own government portals. This Actor reads the same pages available to anyone, with no login and no paywall.

Are device and IVD licence results sorted by newest first? No. CDSCO's device registry doesn't expose a sort order or a "what's new" endpoint, so results come back in whatever order the government system returns them. Use onlyNewSinceLastRun if what you actually want is newly published licences, rather than assuming the first records in a run are the most recent ones. Drug approvals are different: the default recent-approvals feed is genuinely the site's own latest-first list.

Why does a device search sometimes take longer than a drug search? CDSCO's device registry has no server-side text search, so this Actor downloads the full licence list for your chosen licence type and category, then filters it. Drug approval searches are filtered by CDSCO itself and are much smaller and faster.

Can I use this for ongoing regulatory monitoring? Yes. Turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun and schedule this Actor with Apify's built-in scheduler. Each run will only return approvals or licences it hasn't returned before, for the same filters.

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