💊 European Medicines Agency (EMA) Scraper

🚀 Export the EU authorised medicines register in seconds. Filter 1,500+ medicines by therapeutic area, ATC code, marketing authorisation holder, orphan, biosimilar, conditional approval, and 4 status values. No login, no manual CSV exports.

The EMA Medicines Scraper exports the European Medicines Agency centralised register of human and veterinary medicines authorised across the European Union. Each record returns 19 fields, including the medicine name, INN (international non-proprietary name), active substance, ATC code, marketing authorisation holder, therapeutic indication, status, authorisation date, and orphan, biosimilar, additional-monitoring, and conditional-approval flags.

The catalog covers 56 therapeutic areas from oncology and cardiovascular to rare diseases and vaccines, across every centrally authorised medicine for use in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. This Actor exposes every filter the live register supports and returns clean rows you can import into a database, dashboard, or competitive-intelligence tool in minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Pharma intelligence, regulatory affairs, market access, HEOR, biotech BD, hospital pharmacy, health-tech, life-sciences analysts	Competitor tracking, indication monitoring, orphan and biosimilar surveillance, ATC class research, EU launch timelines, MAH portfolio mapping

📋 What the EMA Medicines Scraper does

Multiple filtering workflows in a single run:

• 💊 Full registry export. Every authorised, withdrawn, refused, or suspended medicine on the EMA register.
• 🩺 Therapeutic area filter. Pick from 56 areas like Cancer, Diabetes, COVID-19, Rare diseases, Vaccines.
• 🧬 ATC code filter. Filter by Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical class (e.g. A10 for diabetes, L01 for oncology).
• 🏢 Marketing authorisation holder filter. Track every product owned by a specific MAH.
• 🔴 Special-population flags. Filter to orphan designations, biosimilars, conditional approvals, or additional-monitoring products.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Human vs veterinary. Switch between the human and veterinary registers.

Each record includes naming (medicine name, INN, common name, active substance), classification (ATC code, therapeutic area), regulatory metadata (status, authorisation type, first and current authorisation dates, last revision), the marketing authorisation holder, the therapeutic indication text, and four boolean flags (orphan, biosimilar, conditional approval, additional monitoring).

💡 Why it matters: every pharma launch, every market-access submission, and every competitive review starts with the centrally authorised medicines list. Manual scraping breaks on every EMA site refresh, and the downloadable CSV strips the indication text and product flags. This Actor returns the full enriched record on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: activeSubstance, additionalMonitoring, atcCode, authorisationDate, biosimilar, commonName, conditionalApproval, detailUrl, indication, inn, marketingAuthorisationHolder, name, orphan, revisionDate, scrapedAt, status, therapeuticArea. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the EMA Medicines Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a therapeutic area, ATC code, or MAH, set maxItems, and toggle fetchDetails if you want enriched rows.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the European Medicines Agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available regulatory information is collected.

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