🐾 openFDA Animal & Veterinary Adverse Event Scraper

🚀 Export the U.S. veterinary pharmacovigilance dataset in seconds. Pull 1.3M+ adverse event reports filed with the FDA for animal drugs, with species, breed, age, weight, active ingredients, reactions, and outcomes. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The openFDA Animal & Veterinary Adverse Event Scraper exports the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine pharmacovigilance file and returns 27 structured fields per record, covering the animal, the product, the reaction, the outcome, and the original report metadata. The underlying corpus is the official U.S. registry of suspected adverse drug events in companion and food animals, sourced from veterinarians, drug sponsors, and pet owners.

The catalog covers dogs, cats, horses, cattle, pigs, and other species, every veterinary drug class on the U.S. market, and every reported reaction term from the international VeDDRA dictionary. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes. All filters run server-side, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Veterinary pharma, pet insurance underwriters, clinical research teams, regulatory affairs analysts, vet schools, animal-health journalists	Pharmacovigilance signal detection, product safety dashboards, claims-risk modeling, label-change research, breed-specific reaction studies

📋 What the openFDA Animal & Veterinary Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 💊 Product / drug filter. Brand name or active ingredient (e.g. meloxicam, fipronil, spinosad).
• 🐾 Species filter. Dog, cat, horse, cattle, pig, or other.
• 🩺 Reaction term filter. Free-text VeDDRA term (e.g. vomiting, lethargy, pruritus).
• 📅 Date range filter. Earliest and latest report receive dates.
• 🌐 Full corpus export. Leave filters empty to stream the global event file.

Each record includes the unique adverse event report ID, animal demographics, primary product details, every drug administered, every reaction reported, outcomes, the reporter type, the receiving organization, and the full raw record for downstream re-parsing.

💡 Why it matters: veterinary adverse event signals are scattered across PDF labels, third-party reviews, and clinician anecdote. The FDA pool is the only structured registry. Building your own pipeline means handling pagination, search-syntax escaping, and quarterly schema drift. This Actor skips all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: animalAgeYears, animalBreed, animalGender, animalSpecies, animalWeightKg, drugs, foreignOrDomestic, fullRecord, numberOfAnimalsAffected, numberOfAnimalsTreated, onsetDate, originalReceiveDate, outcomes, primaryProductActiveIngredients, primaryProductBrand, primaryProductDosageForm, primaryProductManufacturer, primaryProductRoute, primaryReporter, reactions, receiverOrganization, reportId, scrapedAt, seriousAe, treatedForAe, typeOfInformation, uniqueAerId. 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 openFDA Animal & Veterinary Adverse Event Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a product or species, optionally add a reaction term and date range, and set maxItems.
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 FDA, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, or any drug sponsor. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open government data is collected.

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