BDPM API: search French medicines and CIP13 codes

#Search by name

Create a free key, keep it on your server, then make this request. Node.js needs no package; the Python example uses requests (pip install requests).

curl -G https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mf_live_your_api_key" \
  --data-urlencode "country=fr" \
  --data-urlencode "q=doliprane"

const params = new URLSearchParams({ country: 'fr', q: 'doliprane' })
const response = await fetch(`https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs?${params}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer mf_live_your_api_key' },
})
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Medifontis ${response.status}`)
const { results, nextOffset } = await response.json()

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs",
    params={"country": "fr", "q": "doliprane"},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer mf_live_your_api_key"},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()
results = response.json()["results"]

#Keep specialty and presentation codes distinct

CIS identifies a specialty; CIP13 and CIP7 identify presentations. Replace q with the code you have. Identifier search matches prefixes, so compare the returned identifier with the full input before choosing a record.

Keep the record id and sourceId together with its licence, source URL and retrieval date. Do not join products by name or interpret a listed medicine as pharmacy stock.

const exact = results.filter(record =>
  record.identifiers.some(id =>
    id.scheme === 'cip13' && id.value === requestedCip13))

#Source and scope

The BDPM source covers the published specialty, presentation, composition and dispensing-condition tables. It does not include patient leaflets or SmPC contents. Preserve attribution and source limitations in your application.