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OpenFDA Drug Adverse Events Search

Search public FDA FAERS drug adverse-event reports by drug name, raw query, and received-date range. Export normalized safety reports with patient, drug, reaction, and serious-event fields.

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Mori

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What it returns

One normalized record per FAERS safety report, with patient, drug, reaction, and serious-flag fields flattened. Use includeRaw=true to also persist the full openFDA record for downstream debugging.

Inputs

Field	Type	Default	Notes
`drugName`	string	`aspirin`	Free-text drug name; translated to `patient.drug.medicinalproduct:<value>`
`search`	string	`""`	Raw openFDA search expression. Overrides `drugName` when set
`startDate`	string (YYYYMMDD)	`""`	Inclusive lower bound for `receivedate`
`endDate`	string (YYYYMMDD)	`""`	Inclusive upper bound for `receivedate`
`maxItems`	integer	`100`	Cap on records exported (max 1000)
`pageSize`	integer	`100`	Records per request (max 1000)
`sort`	enum	`receivedate:desc`	openFDA sort field
`includeRaw`	boolean	`false`	Include the full raw openFDA record under `raw`

Examples

All aspirin events (latest 5): leave defaults at maxItems=5.
Metformin events for 2024 only:
- drugName=metformin, startDate=20240101, endDate=20241231, maxItems=20
Custom raw query:
- search=patient.reaction.reactionmeddrapt:headache AND receivedate:[20240101 TO 20241231]

Compliance notes

openFDA is a US government public dataset; terms of use apply. See https://open.fda.gov/terms/. This Actor exposes public, anonymized safety reports only. It is for research/engineering use, not medical advice.

Local development

make install          # one-time: install apify SDK
make run              # local scrape test (reads .actor/input.json)
make push             # build Docker image + push to Apify

To override the openFDA per-IP rate cap, register a free key at https://open.fda.gov and pass it via input field apiKey.

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