💊 Health Canada Drug Product Database Scraper

🚀 Export Health Canada DPD records in seconds. Pull DIN, brand name, manufacturer, active ingredients, dosage form, and marketing status straight from the official Health Canada API. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 13+ fields per record · 47,000+ drug products · Canada

The Health Canada Drug Product Database Scraper queries the official health-products.canada.ca Drug Product Database (DPD) REST API. Every record contains the DIN, brand name, drug code, company, descriptor, active-ingredient breakdown (with strength and units), dosage form, and the last-update date as published by Health Canada.

Coverage: every drug product registered in Canada with the Therapeutic Products Directorate.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Pharma intelligence teams	Track competitor product launches
Pharmacy operators	Maintain DIN catalogs
Regulatory consultants	Status checks across registered products
Healthtech vendors	Seed Canadian product catalogs
Researchers	Build drug-product datasets for analysis
Journalists	Investigate product approvals and cancellations

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📋 What the Health Canada DPD Scraper does

• Searches by brand name, company, DIN, or marketing status
• Pulls active ingredients with strength and unit per drug product
• Includes dosage form (tablet, injectable, capsule, etc.)
• Returns the official DPD lastUpdateDate so you can detect changes
• Provides a deep-link sourceUrl to the Health Canada DPD record
• Exports in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

💡 Why it matters: Health Canada exposes the DPD as REST endpoints but no easy bulk extractor exists. This actor joins drug, ingredient, and dosage-form endpoints into one record.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
brandName	string	No	tylenol	Brand name (partial match).
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
companyName	string	No		Manufacturer / owner.
din	string	No		Drug Identification Number.
status	select	No	Any	Marketing status.

Example 1 - All Tylenol products:

{ "brandName": "tylenol", "maxItems": 100 }

Example 2 - All actively marketed Pfizer products:

{ "companyName": "pfizer", "status": "MARKETED", "maxItems": 500 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Each main record triggers two follow-up calls (active ingredients and dosage form) to enrich the output, so large runs are paced respectfully against the public API.

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📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📛 title	string	Brand name
🆔 din	string	8-digit DIN
🔢 drugCode	integer	Health Canada internal code
🏷️ className	string	Class (Human, Veterinary, etc.)
🏢 companyName	string	Manufacturer / owner
📝 descriptor	string	Descriptor field
🧪 activeIngredients	array	Name, strength, unit per ingredient
💊 dosageForm	string	Tablet, capsule, injectable, etc.
🕒 lastUpdateDate	string	DPD last-update date
🔗 sourceUrl	string	DPD record link
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp
❌ error	string	Error if any

Sample:

{
    "title": "TYLENOL W CODEINE NO4 TAB",
    "din": "00396516",
    "companyName": "MCNEIL PHARMACEUTICAL, DIVISION OF ORTHO-MCNEIL INC.",
    "activeIngredients": [
        { "name": "ACETAMINOPHEN", "strength": "300", "strengthUnit": "MG" },
        { "name": "CODEINE PHOSPHATE", "strength": "60", "strengthUnit": "MG" }
    ],
    "dosageForm": "Tablet",
    "lastUpdateDate": "2025-07-10"
}

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Direct from the Health Canada DPD REST API
• 🟢 No login or developer key required
• 🟢 Joins ingredients + dosage form for you
• 🟢 Filter combinations: brand, company, DIN, status
• 🟢 Output in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Joins ingredients	Bulk export	API key
Manual DPD search UI	Yes	No	No	No
Health Canada Open Data ZIPs	Yes	Manual joins	Yes	No
ParseForge Health Canada Scraper	Yes	Yes	JSON/CSV/Excel/XML	No

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor on Apify Console
3. Set filters, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Competitive intelligence

Watch a competitor's brand name and detect new DIN registrations.

Catalog enrichment

Seed and refresh internal Canadian drug catalogs.

Regulatory due diligence

Cross-check status of a portfolio of DINs.

Clinical analytics

Pivot ingredients across brands to study formulation patterns.

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🔌 Automating Health Canada DPD Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, and any HTTP-aware tool via the Apify API.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Population-level studies on active-ingredient prevalence.

Personal

Look up the active ingredients of a Canadian product.

Non-profit

Patient-safety advocacy by cancelled-product monitoring.

Experimentation

Pair with U.S. FDA Orange Book for cross-border product analysis.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? Health Canada Drug Product Database public REST API.

Q: API key? No.

Q: Can I get the full ingredient list? Yes, every drug-product record carries the active-ingredient array.

Q: Does it include veterinary products? Yes (Class = Veterinary).

Q: Real-time? Yes. Each run hits the live Health Canada API.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? Yes, 10 records for free users.

Q: Bulk export size? Up to 1,000,000 records for paid users.

Q: Status codes? APPROVED, MARKETED, CANCELLED POST/PRE MARKET, DORMANT.

Q: Drug code vs. DIN? DIN is the public 8-digit number; drugCode is Health Canada's internal record ID.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Health Canada. Only publicly available data from health-products.canada.ca is collected.