OpenFDA Scraper – Drug Labels & Food/Drug/Device Recalls

Pull clean, structured data straight from the U.S. FDA's free OpenFDA API: drug product labels (brand, generic, manufacturer, purpose) and food, drug & device recall enforcement reports (reason, classification, recalling firm, status, dates). Export as JSON, CSV or Excel. No API key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — about $0.50 per 1,000 records. No subscription and no proxy cost. New Apify accounts include free monthly credits, so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Drug labels: brand name, generic name, manufacturer, purpose / indications
• Recalls (food, drug, device): recall number, reason for recall, classification (Class I/II/III), recalling firm, product description, status, city/state/country, report date
• Direct OpenFDA source URL for every record
• Four modes in one actor: drugLabels, foodRecalls, drugRecalls, deviceRecalls

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a mode and a search query (see examples).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "foodRecalls",
  "search": "reason_for_recall:\"salmonella\"&sort=report_date:desc",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Drug label example:

{
  "mode": "drugLabels",
  "search": "openfda.brand_name:\"aspirin\"",
  "maxItems": 100
}

📦 Output example

{
  "dataset": "foodRecalls",
  "id_or_recall_number": "F-0276-2017",
  "brand_name": null,
  "generic_name": null,
  "manufacturer_or_recalling_firm": "Pharmatech LLC",
  "product_description": "Dietary supplement, 30 count bottle",
  "reason_for_recall": "Potential for product contamination",
  "classification": "Class II",
  "status": "Terminated",
  "purpose": null,
  "city": "Davie",
  "state": "FL",
  "country": "United States",
  "report_date": "20161102",
  "url": "https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:%22F-0276-2017%22",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-01T09:00:00+00:00"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Pharmacovigilance & drug-safety monitoring
• Food-safety and recall alerting dashboards
• Medical-device compliance tracking
• Healthcare, insurance & pharma datasets
• AI assistants that answer drug and recall questions

💰 How much will it cost?

Pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.05 · 1,000 → ~$0.50 · 10,000 → ~$5

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Labels and recalls in one actor	✅	usually one only
Food + drug + device recalls	✅	partial
No key, no proxy	✅	sometimes
Nullable, ML-friendly schema	✅	inconsistent

🔗 Related actors

• Open Food Facts Scraper — food products
• Wikipedia Scraper — knowledge
• Google News Scraper — news
• UPC Barcode Lookup Scraper — barcodes

❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No — the OpenFDA API is free and public. How many records? Up to 1,000 per run (OpenFDA hard cap), paged automatically. Search syntax? Standard OpenFDA field:value expressions, with optional &sort=.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the public OpenFDA API (U.S. Food & Drug Administration). This actor collects only public, non-personal regulatory data.

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Keywords: openfda scraper, fda drug labels, drug recalls, food recalls, device recalls, pharmacovigilance, medical device data, food safety, drug safety, JSON CSV Excel