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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 (Germany):

Source Publisher Records Identifiers
de.bvl.reporting-veterinary-packages
Veterinary medicine packages 		Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) 3,691 bvl-pack-id registration upd-uuid
de.ema.article57
EMA Article 57 product list 		European Medicines Agency 17,513 Names only
de.ema.epar
Centrally authorised medicines 		European Medicines Agency 2,754 ema-product-number atc
de.pei.immunological-veterinary-medicines
Veterinary immunologicals 		Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) 488 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=de" \
  --data-urlencode "q=ozempic" \
  --data-urlencode "kinds=de.ema.article57:products"

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=de" \
  --data-urlencode "q=ozempic"
Response 
{
  "country": "de",
  "results": [
    {
      "country": "de",
      "sourceId": "de.ema.article57",
      "id": "de:ema:article57:3f301c505c8d15200fcc",
      "kind": "products",
      "name": "Ozempic",
      "names": [
        "Ozempic",
        "Semaglutide"
      ],
      "identifiers": [],
      "data": {
        "name": "Ozempic",
        "holder": "Novo Nordisk A/S",
        "useDomain": "unknown",
        "databaseDate": "2026-10-09",
        "listingStatus": "listed-as-authorised",
        "sourceRowCount": 1
      },
      "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",
        "attribution": "Source: European Medicines Agency (EMA), Article 57 product data (EMA/518502/2018), based on data submitted by marketing-authorisation holders."
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "de",
      "sourceId": "de.ema.epar",
      "id": "de:ema:epar:EMEA-H-C-004174",
      "kind": "authorised-medicines",
      "name": "Ozempic",
      "names": [
        "Ozempic",
        "semaglutide"
      ],
      "identifiers": [
        {
          "value": "EMEA/H/C/004174",
          "scheme": "ema-product-number"
        },
        {
          "value": "A10BJ06",
          "scheme": "atc"
        }
      ],
      "data": {
        "inn": "semaglutide",
        "name": "Ozempic",
        "holder": "Novo Nordisk A/S",
        "category": "Human",
        "useDomain": "unknown",
        "decisionDate": "2026-06-11"
      },
      "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T01:02:14.692Z",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/medicines-output-medicines_json-report_en.json",
      "licence": {
        "id": "LicenseRef-EMA-Legal-Notice",
        "attribution": "Source: European Medicines Agency (EMA), EPAR medicines and EPAR documents website data. Product information is linked, not copied."
      }
    }
  ],
  "nextOffset": null
}