🇫🇷 France · ANSM · BDPM · ANSES-ANMV
Search the French public medicines database (BDPM) by name, active ingredient, CIS, CIP7 or CIP13 code, plus veterinary medicines from ANSES-ANMV. One REST API, collected daily, with the source and licence of every record.
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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"]{
"country": "fr",
"results": [
{
"country": "fr",
"sourceId": "fr.ansm.bdpm",
"id": "fr:ansm:registrations:60234100",
"kind": "registrations",
"name": "DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
"names": [
"DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
"PARACÉTAMOL"
],
"identifiers": [
{
"value": "60234100",
"scheme": "cis"
}
],
"data": {
"cis": "60234100",
"form": "comprimé",
"name": "DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
"holder": "OPELLA HEALTHCARE FRANCE",
"useDomain": "unknown",
"authorisedOn": "2002-07-09"
},
"retrievedAt": "2026-10-19T23:00:39.006Z",
"sourceUrl": "https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/telechargement",
"licence": {
"id": "etalab-1.0",
"attribution": "Source : Base de données publique des médicaments (BDPM), ANSM, HAS et Assurance Maladie — dates de mise à jour dans publicationDates ; https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr"
}
}
],
"nextOffset": 2
}Try it before you integrate
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🇫🇷 France
Every record comes from one of these publishers, with its counts and licence as of the latest collection.
Veterinary medicines authorised by ANSES-ANMV, with AMM numbers, GTINs, ATCvet codes and Union Product Database identifiers.
UPD packageAMMGTINATCvetANMV source IDANMVUPD permanent IDUPD product
Every medicine in the French public medicines database, with CIS, CIP7 and CIP13 codes.
CIP13CIP7CISRegistration number
Why Medifontis
Records from 199 countries share the same JSON shape, so code written for one country works for every other.
Search brand names, active ingredients and identifiers such as AIC, CN, CIP13, NDC, DIN or BNF codes, without worrying about accents or case.
Each result carries its source URL, retrieval time, licence and limitations, so you can show users exactly where the data comes from.
Filter by use domain and target species wherever the source publishes them.
A dedicated endpoint returns distinct names while users type, ranked exact, prefix, then substring.
Every source is collected on a daily schedule and published atomically, so you never read a half-imported country.
Provenance
Medifontis never invents or merges data. Each record keeps the identifiers its publisher assigned and states its source, licence and known limitations.
sourceUrl
links the official dataset the record was collected from.
retrievedAt
is when Medifontis collected it.
licence
names the publisher’s terms and the attribution to show.
limitations
lists what the source does not establish, such as current availability.
{
"sourceUrl": "https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/telechargement",
"retrievedAt": "2026-10-19T23:00:39.006Z",
"licence": {
"id": "etalab-1.0",
"url": "https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/docs/telechargement/licence_bdpm.pdf",
"scope": "the four freely downloadable BDPM data tables; no medicine document contents",
"termsUrl": "https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/telechargement",
"reviewedAt": "2026-09-30",
"attribution": "Source : Base de données publique des médicaments (BDPM), ANSM, HAS et Assurance Maladie — dates de mise à jour dans publicationDates ; https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr",
"documentsIncluded": false
},
"limitations": [
"Complete BDPM export, not a history of every French authorisation: the help page describes currently marketed medicines and those discontinued within five years, while the reviewed v4/v5 file specifications still say two years.",
"CIS identifies the specialty, CIP13 and CIP7 its presentation. All specialties remain searchable; prescriptions use named CIP13 presentations, and the four current presentations without a matching specialty are flagged, never matched by name or given invented parent data.",
"CIS_CPD publishes explicit dispensing conditions, not an OTC flag: list I, list II, narcotics and explicit prescribing or dispensing restrictions are prescription-or-restricted; absence of a condition stays unknown. No patient eligibility is assessed.",
"The effective pack administrative status preserves explicit licence suspension, withdrawal or cancellation over an active presentation. An archived or missing parent licence cannot establish authorisation; an explicitly cancelled presentation remains cancelled. Marketing declarations do not establish pharmacy stock.",
"The headerless files have the same strict positional schemas in the reviewed v4/v5 specifications. CIS, COMPO and CPD are Windows-1252, CIP is UTF-8; therapeutic fractions are FT in the export but ST in the specification, and three CPD CR-only blank lines are counted without dropping any condition.",
"The linked October 2011 Licence Ouverte v1.0 permits commercial redistribution and derived information with source and update-date attribution. BDPM’s download terms also require preservation of meaning, freshness checks and no suggestion of ANSM/HAS/Assurance Maladie endorsement.",
"SmPCs and patient leaflets are not in these bulk files: no document contents or guessed document URLs are collected. Safety information, shortages, HAS assessments and generic-group overlays are not collected."
]
}Use cases
Let clinicians find the exact authorised product and keep its national code with the prescription.
Match your catalogue to national codes and keep product names and holders in sync with the regulator.
Autocomplete medicine names in medication lists, reminders and intake forms.
Ground answers about medicines in official records instead of model memory.
Track authorised products, holders and presentations across countries.
Search veterinary medicines and their target species where regulators publish them.
Coverage
The same endpoints and the same record shape for every country Medifontis covers.
FAQ
From the official publishers listed above: ANSM · BDPM · ANSES-ANMV. Medifontis collects each source as published and keeps every record independent; records from different sources are never merged or matched by name.
Each source is collected every day and the country is published atomically once collection succeeds. Every record carries the time it was retrieved from its source.
Names match anywhere in the text and identifiers match from their first character. For this country that covers CIS, CIP7 and CIP13 codes, AMM numbers and GTINs.
Yes, within the licence of each source. Every record includes its licence and attribution text, and some publishers restrict commercial redistribution, so check the licences of the sources you rely on.
No. Medifontis reports what official sources publish. It does not decide whether a medicine is suitable, available or reimbursed for a patient.
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