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openFDA Drug Events & Recalls Scraper

Scrape FDA drug adverse event reports (FAERS) and drug recall and enforcement actions from the official openFDA API. Search by drug, reason or date. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel.

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What you get

Each record is one adverse event report (FAERS) or one drug recall action from openFDA, flattened into clean columns.

Adverse Events fields:

safetyReportId: unique FDA safety report identifier
reportType: how the report reached the FDA (spontaneous, study, other)
serious: whether the report was flagged serious
seriousnessReasons: the serious outcomes recorded (death, hospitalization, life threatening and more)
receiveDate: date the FDA first received the report
receiptDate: most recent date information was received for the report
primarySourceCountry: country of the reporter
occurCountry: country where the event occurred
qualification: reporter qualification code
patientSex: patient sex
patientAge: patient age with its unit
reactions: list of reported patient reactions (MedDRA terms)
reactionCount: number of reactions on the report
drugs: list of drugs on the report, each with product name, role, dosage text, indication, active substances and action taken, plus openFDA identifiers when the drug is matched: manufacturer name, product NDC, application number (NDA or ANDA), RxCUI, UNII and pharmacologic class
drugCount: number of drugs on the report
companyNumber: reporting company case number
observedAt: when this record was collected by the scraper

Recalls fields:

recallNumber: FDA recall number
status: recall status (ongoing, completed, terminated)
classification: hazard class (Class I, II or III)
productType: product type (Drugs)
productDescription: full product description
reasonForRecall: why the product was recalled
recallingFirm: the firm conducting the recall
firmStreet: the firm street address
city, state, country, postalCode: firm location
distributionPattern: where the product was distributed
productQuantity: quantity in commerce
codeInfo: lot numbers, expiry and other identifying codes
voluntaryMandated: whether the recall was voluntary or mandated
initialFirmNotification: how the firm first notified customers
recallInitiationDate, centerClassificationDate, reportDate, terminationDate: recall timeline dates
eventId: FDA recall event identifier
brandNames, genericNames: associated brand and generic names when present
observedAt: when this record was collected by the scraper

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Drug safety and pharmacovigilance monitoring	Pharma safety and regulatory teams
Tracking recalls for a specific drug or firm	Compliance and quality teams
Building adverse event datasets for research	Academic and data science teams
Competitive and market safety intelligence	Market access and strategy analysts
Feeding safety signals into internal dashboards	Health data engineers

Frequently Asked Questions

What data does this scraper cover?
It covers two openFDA drug datasets for the United States: the FAERS adverse event reports (patient reactions, drugs and seriousness) and the drug enforcement database of recalls. You pick which one with the Dataset input.

How many records can I pull in one run?
openFDA paginates with a skip offset up to 25000 records per query, so a single search can return up to that many. For larger pulls, narrow the search keyword or the date range to split the work.

How does the search work?
Type a simple keyword and it is matched to the drug product name for events or the recall reason for recalls. You can also paste a raw openFDA expression that already names a field, such as patient.reaction.reactionmeddrapt:"Nausea" or reason_for_recall:contamination.

Can I filter by date?
Yes. Set Date From and Date To in YYYY-MM-DD format. For events this filters the FDA receive date, and for recalls the report date.

What happens to missing fields?
Fields that openFDA does not provide for a given record are returned as null. The scraper never invents values, so an empty field means the source did not report it.

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