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Retrieve a record

GET/v1/drugs/record

Reads exactly one current record by its country, source and native identity, for example to refresh a record your application saved earlier. Answers 404 when the source no longer publishes it.

Parameters

country string Required: Two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code, lowercase. Every search is scoped to one country.
sourceId string Required: The sourceId of the record, which must belong to the requested country.
id string Required: The id of the record exactly as the API returned it, 1 to 300 characters.

Returns

country string: The country of the record.
record Record: The current record with this identity.

Errors

400 401 403 404 429 503 · Errors and rate limits

GET /v1/drugs/record

curl -G https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs/record \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MEDIFONTIS_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "country=de" \
  --data-urlencode "sourceId=de.ema.article57" \
  --data-urlencode "id=de:ema:article57:3f301c505c8d15200fcc"

const params = new URLSearchParams({ country: 'de', sourceId: 'de.ema.article57', id: 'de:ema:article57:3f301c505c8d15200fcc' })
const response = await fetch(`https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs/record?${params}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MEDIFONTIS_API_KEY}` },
})
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Medifontis ${response.status}`)
const { record } = await response.json()

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.medifontis.com/v1/drugs/record",
    params={"country": "de", "sourceId": "de.ema.article57", "id": "de:ema:article57:3f301c505c8d15200fcc"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MEDIFONTIS_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()
record = response.json()["record"]

Response

{
  "country": "de",
  "record": {
    "country": "de",
    "sourceId": "de.ema.article57",
    "id": "de:ema:article57:3f301c505c8d15200fcc",
    "kind": "products",
    "name": "Ozempic",
    "data": {
      "name": "Ozempic",
      "holder": "Novo Nordisk A/S",
      "routes": [
        "Subcutaneous Use"
      ],
      "marketed": null,
      "useDomain": "unknown",
      "databaseDate": "2026-10-09",
      "sourceStatus": null,
      "supplyRegime": null,
      "listingStatus": "listed-as-authorised",
      "targetSpecies": [],
      "sourceRowCount": 1,
      "activeSubstances": [
        "Semaglutide"
      ],
      "documentRevision": "90",
      "documentReference": "EMA/518502/2018",
      "useDomainEvidence": {
        "basis": "unreviewed",
        "field": null,
        "value": null,
        "version": 1,
        "sourceId": "de.ema.article57"
      },
      "patientEligibility": "not-assessed",
      "centrallyAuthorised": true,
      "targetSpeciesStatus": "not-reported",
      "activeSubstancesText": "Semaglutide",
      "administrativeStatus": "unknown",
      "prescriptionCategory": "unknown",
      "prescriptionRequired": null,
      "authorisationTerritory": "European Union",
      "pharmacovigilanceContacts": [
        {
          "email": "SOSPON@novonordisk.com",
          "phone": "+45 4444 8888",
          "masterFileLocation": "Denmark"
        }
      ]
    },
    "region": null,
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T01:00:19.432Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/other/article-57-product-data_en.xlsx",
    "licence": {
      "id": "LicenseRef-EMA-Legal-Notice",
      "url": "https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/about-us/legal-notice",
      "scope": "rows of EMA’s public Article 57 product data authorised in Germany or centrally in the European Union",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-09-29",
      "attribution": "Source: European Medicines Agency (EMA), Article 57 product data (EMA/518502/2018), based on data submitted by marketing-authorisation holders.",
      "documentsIncluded": false
    },
    "limitations": [
      "Germany has no free, complete official bulk medicine database with PZNs: BfArM’s AMIce public search is interactive only, its § 31b reference database is supplied to commercial users on request, and the GKV-Spitzenverband and BfArM price lists are PDF-only for reasons of usage rights.",
      "EMA’s Article 57 export names every medicinal product authorised in Germany (national, mutual-recognition and decentralised procedures) and every centrally authorised EU product, as submitted by marketing-authorisation holders; submissions can lag an authorisation change.",
      "A record is one product name, active-substance text, route and marketing-authorisation holder. Strengths, forms, packs, PZNs, authorisation numbers and dates are not published, so rows EMA lists more than once for one such product are kept together with their count.",
      "The export publishes no legal category (verschreibungspflichtig, apothekenpflichtig, freiverkäuflich), so the prescription classification stays unknown; listing is not proof of current authorisation, marketing, availability or reimbursement.",
      "Active-substance names are the English xEVMPD names EMA publishes, not German INN spellings.",
      "EMA’s legal notice permits commercial and non-commercial reproduction with acknowledgement of EMA as the source; its exception for third-party content leaves the status of holder-submitted text unconfirmed."
    ],
    "names": [
      "Ozempic",
      "Semaglutide"
    ],
    "identifiers": []
  }
}