FDA Drug Approvals (Drugs@FDA)

Clean, structured records of FDA drug approvals, sourced live from the official openFDA Drugs@FDA API (https://api.fda.gov/drug/drugsfda.json) — an anonymous, documented U.S. Food & Drug Administration endpoint. One record per FDA application (NDA / ANDA / BLA), deduplicated, with the FDA's own descriptive fields carried exactly as published.

What you get

One record per unique FDA application:

• application_number — the FDA application number (e.g. NDA021224, ANDA207210)
• application_type — NDA, ANDA, or BLA (from the application-number prefix)
• sponsor_name — the applicant company
• approval_date — the original-approval date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD), taken from the original submission with an approved status
• active_ingredients — deduplicated list of active ingredients across the application's products
• dosage_forms, routes, brand_names — deduplicated lists across the products
• products — per-product detail: product number, brand name, active ingredients (with strength), dosage form, route, marketing status
• pharm_class_epc — established pharmacologic class, when the FDA publishes it
• source, source_url, observed_at

Therapeutic equivalence

This actor never asserts therapeutic equivalence. The FDA's TE code and the reference-drug / reference-standard flags — the fields that express a therapeutic-equivalence determination — are deliberately not carried. Records report only descriptive approval facts.

Filtering

Bound your run by sponsor, ingredient, and applicationType (NDA / ANDA / BLA). maxRecords caps the number of records delivered (a buyer-requested bound on the count, never a block). A filtered query that genuinely matches nothing succeeds and bills nothing.

How it behaves

The actor paginates the openFDA API, honouring the rate limit (~240 requests/minute) with a self-throttle. A source outage or a change in the API's response shape stops the run loudly and charges nothing — an empty result is never delivered as a success. A valid filtered query with no matches is a genuine empty result: it succeeds and bills nothing.

Data notes

This data comes directly from openFDA. Per the FDA's own disclaimer, do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care; fields are carried as published and are not independently verified.

Pricing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
apify-actor-start (one-time actor start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
drug_approval (per unique approval delivered)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

You are charged once per unique approval delivered (deduplicated on application number). The one-time start fee is $0.02. Duplicate application numbers, filtered-out records, and genuine-empty results are never billed; an outage or shape change charges nothing.