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Search medicines

GET /v1/drugs searches every record of every source in one country by name, active ingredient or identifier.

How matching works

  • Names match anywhere in the text, so part of a brand name finds it.
  • Identifiers match from their first character, so the beginning of a code finds every record whose code starts with it.
  • Accents and case are ignored.
  • The query is literal text, without wildcards or operators, and needs 3 to 120 characters.

Ranking

Exact matches come first, then records whose name starts with the query, then other matches; ties are ordered by record name.

🇧🇷 Searchable identifiers

These are the identifier schemes of each source of this country (Brazil):

Source Publisher Records Identifiers
br.anvisa.cmed-prices
CMED medicine price list 		Câmara de Regulação do Mercado de Medicamentos (CMED), Secretaria Executiva exercida pela Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA) 26,635 barcode ggrem registration
br.mapa.veterinary-biologicals
Veterinary biologicals 		Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária (MAPA) 1,744 mapa-biological-licence mapa-registration
br.mapa.veterinary-pharmaceuticals
Veterinary pharmaceuticals 		Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária (MAPA) 2,772 mapa-product-key mapa-registration

Filter by record kind

A source can publish several kinds of records, such as packages, active ingredients or ATC classes. Pass kinds to keep only the ones your application uses. The filter applies before paging, so other kinds cannot push them off a page.

cURL 
curl -G https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MEDIFONTIS_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "country=br" \
  --data-urlencode "q=dipirona sodica" \
  --data-urlencode "kinds=br.anvisa.cmed-prices:presentations"

kinds takes up to 12 comma-separated sourceId:kind pairs, all of the requested country. A malformed pair, or one of another country, answers 400.

Filter by use and species

useDomain and species keep only human or veterinary medicines, or only those for a target species. Human and veterinary medicines.

Pagination

limit sets the page size, from 1 to 50 (default 20), and offset skips results, up to 10000. Each response carries nextOffset, the offset of the next page, or null on the last one.

Example

GET /v1/drugs 
curl -G https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MEDIFONTIS_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "country=br" \
  --data-urlencode "q=dipirona sodica"
Response 
{
  "country": "br",
  "results": [
    {
      "country": "br",
      "sourceId": "br.anvisa.cmed-prices",
      "id": "br:cmed:presentations:528525010218907",
      "kind": "presentations",
      "name": "DIPIRONA SODICA 1000 MG COM CT BL AL PLAS AMB X 30",
      "names": [
        "DIPIRONA SODICA 1000 MG COM CT BL AL PLAS AMB X 30",
        "DIPIRONA SODICA",
        "DIPIRONA"
      ],
      "identifiers": [
        {
          "value": "1256800410339",
          "scheme": "registration"
        },
        {
          "value": "528525010218907",
          "scheme": "ggrem"
        },
        {
          "value": "7899547553505",
          "scheme": "barcode"
        }
      ],
      "data": {
        "name": "DIPIRONA SODICA 1000 MG COM CT BL AL PLAS AMB X 30",
        "holder": "PRATI DONADUZZI & CIA LTDA",
        "stripe": "Tarja Sem Tarja",
        "currency": "BRL",
        "ggremCode": "528525010218907",
        "useDomain": "unknown"
      },
      "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T07:01:32.181Z",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.gov.br/anvisa/pt-br/assuntos/medicamentos/cmed/precos",
      "licence": {
        "id": "LicenseRef-CMED-Lista-Precos",
        "attribution": "Fonte: Câmara de Regulação do Mercado de Medicamentos (CMED), Secretaria Executiva/ANVISA — Lista de Preços de Medicamentos (Preços Fábrica e Máximos ao Consumidor)"
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "br",
      "sourceId": "br.anvisa.cmed-prices",
      "id": "br:cmed:presentations:528513110124306",
      "kind": "presentations",
      "name": "DIPIRONA SODICA 1000 MG COM CT BL AL PLAS TRANS X 10",
      "names": [
        "DIPIRONA SODICA 1000 MG COM CT BL AL PLAS TRANS X 10",
        "DIPIRONA SODICA",
        "DIPIRONA"
      ],
      "identifiers": [
        {
          "value": "1256800410150",
          "scheme": "registration"
        },
        {
          "value": "528513110124306",
          "scheme": "ggrem"
        },
        {
          "value": "7899547500356",
          "scheme": "barcode"
        }
      ],
      "data": {
        "name": "DIPIRONA SODICA 1000 MG COM CT BL AL PLAS TRANS X 10",
        "holder": "PRATI DONADUZZI & CIA LTDA",
        "stripe": "Tarja Sem Tarja",
        "currency": "BRL",
        "ggremCode": "528513110124306",
        "useDomain": "unknown"
      },
      "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T07:01:32.181Z",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.gov.br/anvisa/pt-br/assuntos/medicamentos/cmed/precos",
      "licence": {
        "id": "LicenseRef-CMED-Lista-Precos",
        "attribution": "Fonte: Câmara de Regulação do Mercado de Medicamentos (CMED), Secretaria Executiva/ANVISA — Lista de Preços de Medicamentos (Preços Fábrica e Máximos ao Consumidor)"
      }
    }
  ],
  "nextOffset": 2
}