💊 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.

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.

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

📋 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.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: className, companyName, din, dosageForm, drugCode, lastUpdateDate, numberOfActiveIngredients, results, scrapedAt, sourceUrl, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ 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.

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

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