openFDA search - drug events, recalls, labels, devices (API)
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 records
Query openFDA (api.fda.gov): drug adverse events, drug and food recalls, drug labels, device events and device recalls. Pass openFDA search syntax plus a date range; get one normalised row per record (id, dates, product, classification, status, reason or reaction terms, firm) plus the raw JSON.
Which openFDA collection to query. Default date field per endpoint: drug_event = receivedate, drug_enforcement = report_date, drug_label = effective_time, device_event = date_received, device_recall = event_date_posted, food_enforcement = report_date.
Optional openFDA search expression, e.g. patient.drug.medicinalproduct:"ibuprofen" or classification:"Class I" AND state:CA. Field names are the endpoint's own (see https://open.fda.gov/apis/). The date range is appended with AND. Empty = date range only.
Optional. The endpoint field the date range and the newest-first sort apply to (letters, digits, dots, underscores). Empty = the endpoint's default date field listed above.
Optional, inclusive. When both dates are empty the Actor uses the last 90 days (today minus 90 days through today, UTC). If only date_to is given, date_from becomes 1900-01-01.
Optional, inclusive. If only date_from is given, date_to becomes today (UTC).
Stop after this many records have been written. openFDA pages with limit=100 and skip, and rejects skip above 25,000, so one query can return at most 25,100 records - narrow the search or the dates for more.
Optional. Without a key openFDA allows 1,000 requests per day per IP (240 per minute); with a free key from https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/ it allows 120,000 per day. Sent only as the api_key query parameter; never logged or written to the dataset.
Politeness delay towards api.fda.gov. Each request returns up to 100 records; the floor is 250 ms.
