Canada Clinical Trials Scraper – Health Canada Clinical Trials Database

Export Health Canada-authorized clinical trials (phase I–III, pharmaceutical and biological drugs) as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: protocol number, full title, phase, status (ongoing, closed, pending), No Objection Letter date, start and end dates, medical conditions, study populations, sponsors and investigational products. Filter by keyword, condition, sponsor, phase, status and date, or schedule a "new trials only" monitor.

• ✅ Official Health Canada Clinical Trials Database API (about 9,700 trials). No scraping, no login, no API key
• ✅ Canada-specific: every row is a trial Health Canada has authorized to run in Canada – something ClinicalTrials.gov filters don't give you cleanly
• ✅ Phase parsed from the title, sponsors and products joined in
• ✅ onlyNew monitoring mode: returns new trials and trials whose status changed (e.g. pending → ongoing → closed)
• ✅ English or French; pay only for the results you get

Who it's for

• CROs, site networks and patient-recruitment companies looking for new Canadian trials and sponsors
• Pharma and biotech competitive-intelligence teams following competitors' Canadian programs
• Investors and analysts tracking pipeline activity by indication
• Patient-advocacy groups, journalists and researchers

Input

Field	What it does	Default
language	en or fr	en
keywords	Title, condition, sponsor or product contains any of these	["obesity","alzheimer"] (prefill)
conditions	Medical condition contains any of these	all
sponsors	Sponsor name contains any of these	all
statuses	ONGOING, CLOSED, PENDING	all
phases	1, 2, 3, 4 (a Phase 1/2 trial matches 1 and 2)	all
studyPopulations	ADULT MALE, ADULT FEMALE, PEDIATRIC	all
authorizedWithinDays / authorizedSince	Window on the No Objection Letter date	no limit
onlyNew	Only new or status-changed trials	off
maxItems	Hard cap on results (and on cost), newest authorization first	200

Example: ongoing phase 3 oncology trials authorized this year

{ "keywords": ["cancer", "carcinoma", "lymphoma"], "phases": ["3"], "statuses": ["ONGOING"], "authorizedSince": "2026-01-01" }

Output

One row per trial protocol. A real record from a live test (29 Sep 2026):

{
  "protocolId": 80426,
  "protocolNumber": "E2511-A001-102",
  "submissionNumber": "504791",
  "title": "A PROOF-OF-MECHANISM, OPEN-LABEL, PARALLEL GROUP STUDY WITH AN OPEN-LABEL EXTENSION PHASE TO ASSESS THE SAFETY, TOLERABILITY, PHARMACOKINETICS, AND …",
  "phase": null,
  "status": "PENDING",
  "noObjectionLetterDate": "2026-09-25",
  "startDate": null,
  "endDate": null,
  "medicalConditions": [
    "ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE"
  ],
  "studyPopulations": [
    "ADULT FEMALE",
    "ADULT MALE"
  ],
  "sponsors": [
    "EISAI INC"
  ],
  "products": [
    "E2511 / [11C] MK 6884 / [18F] FEOBV"
  ],
  "searchPortalUrl": "https://clinical-trials-search.canada.ca/en/home",
  "language": "en",
  "source": "Health Canada – Clinical Trials Database API",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Canada",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T22:47:36+00:00"
}

The full field list is in .actor/dataset_schema.json; more real rows are in sample_output.json.

Scheduling a trial monitor

Save your input as a Task with onlyNew: true, add a daily or weekly Schedule, then connect Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier or Make. State lives in the named key-value store canada-clinical-trials-state.

Pricing

Pay per result. You're charged once per trial written to the dataset.

Data source, licence and privacy

• Source: Health Canada Clinical Trials Database API – https://health-products.canada.ca/api/documentation/cta-documentation-en.html (dataset: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d6fe4b32-2eaf-4ac0-9e35-b3841f25e3a7). Human-readable search: https://clinical-trials-search.canada.ca
• Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada. Every row carries the required attribution statement.
• Sponsors are companies, hospitals and universities. No personal information (no investigator names or contacts).
• Unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Health Canada.

Limits and notes

• phase is parsed from the protocol title and is null when the title doesn't state it (about 40% of the 9,700 trials; only a few dozen of those mention a phase in a non-standard way). Use keywords or conditions rather than phases if you need full coverage.
• The database covers trials of drugs and biologics authorized by Health Canada; device-only and many academic non-drug studies aren't included.
• The API doesn't give a per-trial web page, so searchPortalUrl points to the official search portal; search by protocol number there.
• The French version of the database is sometimes slow to respond (up to about a minute).