European Medicines Agency publication metadata

Official general information/guidance and news JSON snapshots; guidance section includes general information pages. No medicine-product listings, binaries, advice or archive completeness guarantee.

Source and coverage

Combines two official, twice-daily machine-readable JSON snapshots. Guidance is a section label for the general report, which also contains general agency information. Dates normalize DD/MM/YYYY; raw date text and snapshot timestamp are preserved. Missing update dates stay null. Medicine-product listings and related product data are excluded. Category matching is exact. EMA acknowledgement, source URL and retrieved month must accompany reused copies; do not place source links alongside advertising.

Fixed official sources:

• https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/general-json-report_en.json
• https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/news-json-report_en.json

Reuse

Source: European Medicines Agency (EMA). Metadata reproduced and dates normalized; retain EMA acknowledgement and official source link in every copy. Third-party material, images and logos excluded. No endorsement implied. Legal notice: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/about-us/about-website/legal-notice Metadata only. No images, logos, third-party content, binary documents or personal profiling. No medical, regulatory or investment advice. Downstream users must retain attribution and source links and observe applicable source restrictions.

Inputs

• maxItems: Maximum records emitted after local filters; bounded by current source coverage. Default: 50.
• sections: Official snapshots to combine in one dataset. Guidance includes general agency information. Default: ["guidance", "news"].
• keyword: Optional case-insensitive substring of title and summary, applied locally. Default: "".
• category: Optional exact case-insensitive category, applied locally. Default: "".
• updatedSince: Optional YYYY-MM-DD inclusive date; uses last update or first publication when update is absent. Default: "".

Safety and operation

Single concurrent request, minimum 2-second pacing (increased by robots policy), maximum 3 requests, 5 MB per response and 10 MB aggregate, 120-second elapsed budget checked before each read and request with at most 25-second socket timeout. Slow network operations can complete a socket timeout after the elapsed check. Fixed HTTPS official hosts and exact fetched paths, no user URLs, proxy service, authentication, redirects, retries, challenge solving or evasion. Standard runtime egress only. Stop on denial, challenge, invalid source structure or robots disallow. Item limit 1000. No documents fetched.

Output

dataset.schema.json defines every field. sourceId is stable and contentHash excludes observation timestamps. Missing dates are null and diagnostics note malformed required dates. RUN_REPORT records source count, output count, bytes, requests, robots state, coverage and stops. Empty filter results are legitimate; malformed or empty source structure is not silently reported as success.

Run and test

Python 3.12: pip install -r requirements.txt; python main.py Portable offline tests: python -m unittest discover -s tests -v The included fixtures are actual official-source responses captured 2026-10-06. Positive live test uses the real Apify SDK and local storage; no Console creation, deployment or publication is implied.