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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=es" \
  --data-urlencode "sourceId=es.aemps.cima" \
  --data-urlencode "id=es:cima:medicines:60927"

const params = new URLSearchParams({ country: 'es', sourceId: 'es.aemps.cima', id: 'es:cima:medicines:60927' })
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": "es", "sourceId": "es.aemps.cima", "id": "es:cima:medicines:60927"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MEDIFONTIS_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()
record = response.json()["record"]

Response

{
  "country": "es",
  "record": {
    "country": "es",
    "sourceId": "es.aemps.cima",
    "id": "es:cima:medicines:60927",
    "kind": "medicines",
    "name": "ENANTYUM 12,5 mg COMPRIMIDOS",
    "data": {
      "form": "COMPRIMIDO RECUBIERTO",
      "name": "ENANTYUM 12,5 mg COMPRIMIDOS",
      "holder": "Laboratorios Menarini S.A.",
      "smpcUrl": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/pdfs/ft/60927/FT_60927.pdf",
      "doseText": "12,5 mg",
      "marketed": true,
      "documents": [
        {
          "url": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/pdfs/ft/60927/FT_60927.pdf",
          "type": 1,
          "htmlUrl": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/dochtml/ft/60927/FT_60927.html",
          "modifiedAtEpochMs": 1761781853000
        },
        {
          "url": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/pdfs/p/60927/P_60927.pdf",
          "type": 2,
          "htmlUrl": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/dochtml/p/60927/P_60927.html",
          "modifiedAtEpochMs": 1761781866000
        }
      ],
      "useDomain": "human",
      "leafletUrl": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/pdfs/p/60927/P_60927.pdf",
      "nationalCode": null,
      "supplyRegime": "Medicamento Sujeto A Prescripción Médica",
      "regionalRules": "not-collected",
      "supplyProblem": false,
      "targetSpecies": [],
      "nonSubstitutable": {
        "id": 0,
        "nombre": "N/A"
      },
      "activeIngredients": null,
      "useDomainEvidence": {
        "basis": "publisher-dataset-scope",
        "field": "sourceId",
        "value": "es.aemps.cima",
        "version": 1,
        "sourceId": "es.aemps.cima"
      },
      "patientEligibility": "not-assessed",
      "registrationNumber": "60927",
      "targetSpeciesStatus": "not-applicable",
      "administrationRoutes": [
        {
          "id": 48,
          "nombre": "VÍA ORAL"
        }
      ],
      "administrativeStatus": "authorised",
      "prescriptionCategory": "prescription-or-restricted",
      "prescriptionRequired": true,
      "activeIngredientsText": null,
      "administrativeStatusScope": "medicine",
      "administrativeDatesEpochMs": {
        "aut": 828309600000
      }
    },
    "region": null,
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T04:47:41.074Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://cima.aemps.es/cima/rest",
    "licence": {
      "id": "LicenseRef-AEMPS-CIMA-REST",
      "url": "https://sede.aemps.gob.es/datos-abiertos/",
      "scope": "CIMA REST metadata; not the separately restricted Nomenclátor bulk database",
      "termsUrl": "https://www.aemps.gob.es/aviso-legal/",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-09-24",
      "attribution": "Fuente de la información: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios www.aemps.gob.es",
      "documentsIncluded": false
    },
    "limitations": [
      "Complete unfiltered human-medicine registrations and presentations currently exposed by CIMA, not a historical archive of all Spanish authorisations.",
      "Two identical full passes detect observed drift but CIMA supplies no point-in-time snapshot guarantee.",
      "Authorisation, marketing, prescription requirement and patient/prescriber eligibility are separate facts.",
      "Autonomous-community reimbursement, dispensing pathways, treatment plans and patient eligibility are not collected.",
      "Official document URLs and their supplied modification dates only; no document content or images are redistributed.",
      "REST reuse relies on the AEMPS open-data listing and website notice, not a Creative Commons licence or the Nomenclátor bulk terms."
    ],
    "names": [
      "ENANTYUM 12,5 mg COMPRIMIDOS"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      {
        "value": "60927",
        "scheme": "registration"
      }
    ]
  }
}