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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 (Italy):

Source Publisher Records Identifiers
it.aifa.atc
ATC classification 		Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco 7,215 atc
it.aifa.equivalents
Equivalent medicines 		Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco 8,576 aic atc equivalence-group
it.aifa.ingredients
Active ingredients 		Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco 339,110 aic
it.aifa.packages
Medicine packages 		Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco 160,167 aic atc
it.aifa.shortages
Medicine shortages 		Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco 2,498 aic atc
it.salute.veterinary-packages
Veterinary medicines 		Ministero della Salute 11,117 aic gtin

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=it" \
  --data-urlencode "q=tachipirina" \
  --data-urlencode "kinds=it.aifa.packages:packages"

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=it" \
  --data-urlencode "q=tachipirina"
Response 
{
  "country": "it",
  "results": [
    {
      "country": "it",
      "sourceId": "it.aifa.packages",
      "id": "it:aifa:packages:012745016",
      "kind": "packages",
      "name": "TACHIPIRINA",
      "names": [
        "TACHIPIRINA",
        "PARACETAMOLO"
      ],
      "identifiers": [
        {
          "value": "012745016",
          "scheme": "aic"
        },
        {
          "value": "N02BE01",
          "scheme": "atc"
        }
      ],
      "data": {
        "aic": "012745016",
        "atc": "N02BE01",
        "form": "Sciroppo",
        "name": "TACHIPIRINA",
        "holder": "AZIENDE CHIMICHE RIUNITE ANGELINI FRANCESCO A.C.R.A.F. S.P.A.",
        "useDomain": "human"
      },
      "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T03:30:57.988Z",
      "sourceUrl": "https://drive.aifa.gov.it/farmaci/confezioni_fornitura.csv",
      "licence": {
        "id": "CC-BY-4.0",
        "attribution": "Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA)"
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "it",
      "sourceId": "it.aifa.packages",
      "id": "it:aifa:packages:012745028",
      "kind": "packages",
      "name": "TACHIPIRINA",
      "names": [
        "TACHIPIRINA",
        "PARACETAMOLO"
      ],
      "identifiers": [
        {
          "value": "012745028",
          "scheme": "aic"
        },
        {
          "value": "N02BE01",
          "scheme": "atc"
        }
      ],
      "data": {
        "aic": "012745028",
        "atc": "N02BE01",
        "form": "Compressa",
        "name": "TACHIPIRINA",
        "holder": "AZIENDE CHIMICHE RIUNITE ANGELINI FRANCESCO A.C.R.A.F. S.P.A.",
        "useDomain": "human"
      },
      "retrievedAt": "2026-10-20T03:30:57.988Z",
      "sourceUrl": "https://drive.aifa.gov.it/farmaci/confezioni_fornitura.csv",
      "licence": {
        "id": "CC-BY-4.0",
        "attribution": "Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA)"
      }
    }
  ],
  "nextOffset": 2
}