Canada Natural Health Products (NPN) Scraper – Licensed Natural Health Products Database

Search Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD) – every vitamin, supplement, herbal, probiotic, homeopathic and other natural health product licensed for sale in Canada – and export clean JSON, CSV or Excel: NPN / DIN-HM, brand and alternate names, licence holder, dosage form, licence date, status, medicinal ingredients with amounts and source material, non-medicinal ingredients, approved recommended uses (claims), routes, doses and risk statements. Look up NPNs in bulk or schedule a "new licences only" monitor.

• ✅ Official Health Canada LNHPD API (about 150,000 licences). No scraping, no login, no API key
• ✅ One row per licence with every brand name grouped, then enriched with ingredients, claims, doses and warnings
• ✅ Bulk NPN verification: paste a list of NPNs and get status, holder and approved claims back
• ✅ onlyNew monitoring mode for new or revised licences; English or French; pay only for the results you get

Who it's for

• Amazon, Shopify and retail sellers and marketplaces that must check a supplement's NPN before listing it in Canada
• Supplement brands, importers and contract manufacturers tracking competitors' new licences and approved claims
• Regulatory consultants and compliance teams verifying claims and licence status
• Market researchers and product developers mapping ingredients and dosage trends

Input

Field	What it does	Default
language	en or fr	en
keywords	Brand name (primary or alternate) contains any of these	["melatonin"] (prefill)
licenceNumbers	Specific 8-digit NPNs / DIN-HMs to look up	–
companies	Licence holder contains any of these	all
dosageForms	e.g. Capsule, Tablet, Gummy, Powder	all
submissionTypes	Compendial, Traditional, Non-Traditional, Homeopathic	all
activeOnly	Skip non-active licences	on
licensedWithinDays / licensedSince	Window on the licence date	no limit
includeIngredients	Medicinal + non-medicinal ingredients	on
includeUsesAndRoutes	Recommended uses (claims) + routes	on
includeDosesAndRisks	Doses by population + cautions, contraindications, adverse reactions	off
onlyNew	Only new or revised licences since the last run	off
maxItems	Hard cap on results (and on cost), newest licence first	100

Example: verify a supplier's products

{ "licenceNumbers": ["80151267", "80000012"], "activeOnly": false, "includeDosesAndRisks": true }

Output

One row per product licence. A real record from a live test (29 Sep 2026, lists shortened):

{
  "lnhpdId": 30253743,
  "licenceNumber": "80151267",
  "productName": "Melatonin",
  "alternateNames": [
    "nutricost Melatonin",
    "NutriCost Melatonin",
    "NutriCost",
    "…"
  ],
  "companyName": "eSupplements, LLC",
  "companyId": 67616,
  "dosageForm": "Tablet",
  "licenceDate": "2026-09-25",
  "revisedDate": null,
  "submissionType": "Compendial",
  "productStatus": "Active",
  "productStatusCode": 1,
  "attestedMonograph": false,
  "medicinalIngredients": [
    {
      "name": "N-Acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine",
      "sourceMaterial": "Melatonin",
      "quantity": 5.0,
      "quantityMin": null,
      "quantityMax": null,
      "unit": "mg",
      "potencyAmount": null,
      "potencyConstituent": null,
      "potencyUnit": null,
      "ratio": null,
      "driedHerbEquivalent": null,
      "dheUnit": null,
      "extractType": null
    }
  ],
  "nonMedicinalIngredients": [
    "Calcium carbonate",
    "Corn starch",
    "Dextrin",
    "…"
  ],
  "recommendedUses": [
    "(Used as a) sleep aid (to help promote sleep).  Helps (to) prevent and/or reduce the effects of jet lag/minimize jet lag (e.g. daytime fatigue, sleep …"
  ],
  "routes": [
    "Oral"
  ],
  "doses": [
    {
      "population": "Adults",
      "age": null,
      "ageMin": 18.0,
      "ageMax": null,
      "ageUnit": "Years",
      "quantity": 1.0,
      "quantityMin": null,
      "quantityMax": null,
      "quantityUnit": "tablet",
      "frequency": 1.0,
      "frequencyMin": null,
      "frequencyMax": null,
      "frequencyUnit": "daily"
    }
  ],
  "riskStatements": [
    {
      "type": "Known Adverse Reactions",
      "subType": null,
      "text": "Stop use if allergy occurs or if you experience headache, confusion, or nausea."
    },
    {
      "type": "Cautions and Warnings",
      "subType": null,
      "text": "Ask a health care practitioner/health care provider/health care professional/doctor/physician before use if you are taking medications for seizure, blood …"
    },
    {
      "type": "Contra-Indications",
      "subType": null,
      "text": "Do not use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding."
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://health-products.canada.ca/lnhpd-bdpsnh/info?lang=eng&licence=80151267",
  "language": "en",
  "source": "Health Canada – Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD) API",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Canada",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T22:52:12+00:00"
}

More real rows are in sample_output.json.

Pricing

Pay per result. You're charged once per licence written to the dataset, whatever enrichment you switch on.

Data source, licence and privacy

• Source: Health Canada LNHPD API – https://health-products.canada.ca/api/documentation/lnhpd-documentation-en.html (dataset: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ef546c83-43a8-4404-943e-ab324164eeb3). Each row links to the official LNHPD record.
• Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada. Every row carries the required attribution statement.
• Licence holders are companies. No personal information is output.
• Unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Health Canada. A licence doesn't mean a product is currently on the market.

Limits and notes

• Each run downloads the full licence list (about 15 MB compressed, a few seconds), then makes 2–6 small API calls per returned licence for the enrichment you choose. Large runs with all enrichment on take roughly 1 minute per 500 licences.
• productStatus is "Active" or "Non-active"; a few rows carry other source status codes, shown as "Other (code N)".
• The French list is sometimes slow to respond (up to about a minute).