💊 MyChem.info Drug Annotation Scraper

🚀 Turn any drug name into a clean annotation record in seconds. Resolve imatinib, aspirin, or a whole therapeutic area into DrugBank, ChEMBL, PubChem, UNII, ATC, formula, weight, indications, and mechanism, all from one keyless source.

MyChem.info is the BioThings drug and chemical knowledge hub that aggregates DrugBank, ChEMBL, PubChem, DrugCentral, UNII, and more behind a single InChIKey-keyed API. This Actor queries MyChem.info, resolves each drug name or InChIKey to its annotation document, and returns a curated subset of the most useful fields instead of the full nested blob.

Coverage spans small molecules, biologics, and investigational compounds that carry a DrugBank annotation. You can look up drugs one by one, paste a batch of names or InChIKeys, or run a free-text query like a therapeutic area to pull back the best-matching annotated compounds.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Pharma and biotech researchers	Build a drug reference table across DrugBank, ChEMBL, and PubChem
Data scientists and bioinformaticians	Map drug names to standardized identifiers and ATC codes
Clinical and regulatory teams	Pull indications, mechanism classes, and approval status
Chemistry and cheminformatics teams	Collect formula, molecular weight, SMILES, and CAS numbers

📋 What the MyChem.info Drug Annotation Scraper does

• Resolves drug names (for example imatinib, metformin) or InChIKeys to their MyChem.info annotation.
• Runs a free-text search query and returns the best-matching drug-annotated compounds.
• Maps a curated subset of fields from DrugBank, ChEMBL, PubChem, DrugCentral, and UNII.
• Returns standardized identifiers, ATC codes, chemical properties, indications, and mechanism classes.
• Combines a search query and an explicit drug list in a single run when you want both.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: atcCodes, chemblId, drugbankId, drugName, molecularFormula, molecularWeight, primaryIndication, pubchemCid, results, scrapedAt, unii, url. 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 for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the MyChem.info Drug Annotation Scraper.
3. Enter a searchQuery, a drugList of names or InChIKeys, or both.
4. Set maxItems if you want to cap the run, then start the Actor.
5. Collect your results from the dataset once the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with MyChem.info or BioThings. Only publicly available data collected.

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