🧬 Clinical Trial Multi-Source Aggregator

🚀 Query 4 medical and clinical data sources in one run. EU CTIS trials, WHO Disease Outbreaks, openFDA Veterinary Events and NCBI ClinVar variants - aggregated, normalized, pull.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-27 · 📊 10+ fields per record · 4 sources · global clinical, regulatory and genomic intelligence

The Clinical Trial Multi-Source Aggregator queries four independent medical and clinical data sources in parallel and returns a unified stream of records. Each record is tagged with its source so you can filter, dedupe or split by platform downstream.

The combination spans regulatory clinical trials (EU CTIS), epidemic surveillance (WHO Disease Outbreak News), veterinary pharmacovigilance (openFDA) and genetic variant classifications (NCBI ClinVar).

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Pharma, biotech, CROs	Competitive trial intelligence
Public health analysts	Outbreak tracking and signal monitoring
Genomics researchers	Variant curation and classification
Veterinary regulators	Adverse event monitoring

📋 What the Clinical Trial Multi-Source Aggregator does

• Queries up to 4 distinct medical APIs in parallel (Promise.allSettled)
• Applies a unified query string across every source that exposes search
• Normalizes every record to the same 10+ field shape
• Returns one tagged stream - source: ctis | who | openfda | clinvar
• Continues with the remaining sources if one fails

💡 Why it matters: one input, one dataset, four authoritative public health and regulatory sources.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	no	Keyword applied to every source that supports search
sources	array of enum	no	Subset of ctis, who, openfda, clinvar
maxItems	integer	no	Free 10 / Paid up to 1,000,000
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Apify Proxy (recommended)

{
    "query": "cancer",
    "maxItems": 20,
    "sources": ["ctis", "who", "openfda", "clinvar"]
}

{
    "query": "BRCA1",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "sources": ["clinvar"]
}

⚠️ Good to Know: each source has its own query semantics. CTIS matches containAll. WHO matches contains(Title). openFDA matches against the entire event document. ClinVar defaults to BRCA1 if no query is supplied.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📡 source	string	ctis / who / openfda / clinvar
📌 title	string	Record title (trial, outbreak, event or variant)
🔗 url	string	Canonical URL on the source site
🆔 id	string	Source-native ID (CT number, DON ID, report ID, ClinVar VID)
📊 status	string	Status / outcome / review status
🌍 country	string	Trial countries, reporter country, etc. (when present)
🕒 date	string	Decision / publication / receive / evaluation date
📝 summary	string	Source-specific summary text
+ source-specific fields	varies	e.g. sponsor, donId, reactions, drugs, gene, traits
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of the run
❌ error	string	Per-source error record (rare)

✨ Why choose this Actor

Differentiator	Detail
🌐 Four sources, one run	Save time, save credits, save engineering
🛡️ Resilient	One source failure does not stop the others
⚡ Parallel fetch	Fetchers run concurrently
🧩 Unified schema	Every record same shape
📦 Pay-per-event	Pay only for the records you collect

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Alternative	This Aggregator
Build 4 separate scrapers	Single run, single dataset
Buy a clinical-trials API	No subscription, pay per item
Query each official site manually	Automated, normalized, scheduled

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the actor on Apify console
3. Pick sources (default = all 4)
4. Set your query and maxItems
5. Run

💼 Business use cases

Pharma and biotech

Need	How
Trial competitive intelligence	Pull CTIS trials weekly, diff over time
Drug safety signal monitoring	Pull openFDA events for your active ingredient

Public health and regulatory

Need	How
Outbreak surveillance	Daily WHO digest into Slack
Cross-source signal building	Join WHO + ClinVar + CTIS on disease keyword

Genomics and research

Need	How
Variant curation	Query ClinVar by gene, ingest into LIMS
Cohort recruitment	Search CTIS for relevant trials

Veterinary medicine

Need	How
Adverse event tracking	openFDA species-specific monitoring
Drug recall correlation	Cross with regulator notices

🔌 Automating Clinical Trial Multi-Source

Use Apify integrations to route results to:

• Make / Zapier - push every new record to Notion, Airtable, Slack
• Slack - daily digest in your research channel
• Airbyte / Fivetran - sync to Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres
• GitHub Actions - trigger downstream NLP/LLM pipelines
• Google Drive / Dropbox - pull tabular/spreadsheet for offline review

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

• Cross-database epidemiology research
• Genotype-phenotype correlation studies

Personal

• Patients: track trials in your condition
• Caregivers: monitor outbreaks by region

Non-profit

• Disease-foundation surveillance dashboards
• Veterinary welfare programs

Experimentation

• LLM-powered clinical-trial summarizers
• Knowledge-graph construction across sources

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Which sources are queried? EU CTIS (clinical trials), WHO DON (disease outbreak news), openFDA Animal & Veterinary, NCBI ClinVar.

❓ Can I pick a subset? Yes. Pass sources: ["ctis","who"] for just two.

❓ What happens on failure? Other sources keep running; the failing source emits an error record.

❓ Is the query applied everywhere? Yes - adapted to each source's native query syntax.

❓ How do I dedupe? Use the id + source composite as the unique key downstream.

❓ Do I need API keys? No. All four sources expose public, unauthenticated endpoints.

❓ Pricing? Pay-per-event: billed per record actually pushed.

❓ What's the maximum? 1,000,000 items per run for paid users.

❓ Can I schedule it? Yes - use Apify Schedules for daily/weekly runs.

❓ How fresh is the data? Real-time - each source is queried live on every run.

🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make, Zapier, n8n, Pipedream
• Airbyte, Fivetran, Stitch
• Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams
• Google Sheets, spreadsheet Online, Airtable, Notion
• Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
• Webhooks, REST API, S3, GCS

🔗 Recommended Actors

Actor	Why
EU Clinical Trials Register Scraper	Standalone CTIS
WHO Disease Outbreak Scraper	Standalone WHO DON
openFDA Veterinary Events Scraper	Standalone vet pharmacovigilance
NCBI ClinVar Variants Scraper	Standalone variant lookup

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the EU EMA, WHO, US FDA or NCBI. Only publicly available data is collected.