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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=fr" \
  --data-urlencode "sourceId=fr.ansm.bdpm" \
  --data-urlencode "id=fr:ansm:registrations:60234100"
Response 
{
  "country": "fr",
  "record": {
    "country": "fr",
    "sourceId": "fr.ansm.bdpm",
    "id": "fr:ansm:registrations:60234100",
    "kind": "registrations",
    "name": "DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
    "data": {
      "cis": "60234100",
      "form": "comprimé",
      "name": "DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
      "holder": "OPELLA HEALTHCARE FRANCE",
      "routes": [
        "orale"
      ],
      "holders": [
        "OPELLA HEALTHCARE FRANCE"
      ],
      "marketed": true,
      "bdmStatus": null,
      "useDomain": "unknown",
      "authorisedOn": "2002-07-09",
      "compositions": [
        {
          "name": "PARACÉTAMOL",
          "nature": "SA",
          "strength": "1000 mg",
          "linkageNumber": "1",
          "substanceCode": "02202",
          "dosageReference": "un comprimé",
          "pharmaceuticalElement": "comprimé"
        }
      ],
      "sourceStatus": "Autorisation active",
      "supplyRegime": null,
      "regionalRules": "not-collected",
      "targetSpecies": [],
      "specialityName": "DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
      "marketingStatus": "Commercialisée",
      "publicationDates": {
        "CIS_bdpm": "2026-09-29",
        "CIS_CIP_bdpm": "2026-10-19",
        "CIS_CPD_bdpm": "2026-09-29",
        "CIS_COMPO_bdpm": "2026-09-29"
      },
      "specialityListed": true,
      "useDomainEvidence": {
        "basis": "unreviewed",
        "field": null,
        "value": null,
        "version": 1,
        "sourceId": "fr.ansm.bdpm"
      },
      "patientEligibility": "not-assessed",
      "targetSpeciesStatus": "not-reported",
      "additionalMonitoring": false,
      "administrativeStatus": "authorised",
      "prescriptionCategory": "unknown",
      "activeIngredientNames": [
        "PARACÉTAMOL"
      ],
      "authorisationProcedure": "Procédure nationale",
      "prescriptionConditions": [],
      "europeanAuthorisationNumber": null
    },
    "region": null,
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-19T23:00:39.006Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/telechargement",
    "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."
    ],
    "names": [
      "DOLIPRANE 1000 mg, comprimé",
      "PARACÉTAMOL"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      {
        "value": "60234100",
        "scheme": "cis"
      }
    ]
  }
}