# ANVISA Brazil Medicines Registry Scraper (`parseforge/anvisa-brazil-medicines-scraper`) Actor

Search the ANVISA medicines registry by product name or active ingredient and pull product\_name, active\_ingredient, manufacturer, registration, expiry\_date, category, and presentation. Handy for pharma market research, regulatory monitoring, and competitive intelligence across Brazil.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/anvisa-brazil-medicines-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 💊 ANVISA Brazil Medicines Registry Scraper

> 🚀 **Export the official ANVISA Brazil medicines registry in seconds. Product name, active ingredient, manufacturer, registration and expiry.**

The ANVISA Brazil Medicines Registry Scraper turns the [ANVISA medicines public search](https://consultas.anvisa.gov.br) into a clean dataset. Search by product name or active ingredient, get back one row per registered medicine.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 📊 Analysts | Build clean datasets from the source |
| 🏢 Business teams | Plug official data into internal tools |
| 🤖 ML engineers | Training data ready for pandas and BigQuery |
| 📰 Journalists | Verify numbers in seconds |
| 🎓 Researchers | Reproducible historical pulls |
| 👩‍💻 Developers | Skip writing a client library |

### 📋 What the ANVISA Brazil Medicines Registry Scraper does

- Calls the public ANVISA medicines public search endpoint.
- Parses the response and flattens each record into a clean row.
- Casts numeric fields and normalizes timestamps for downstream tools.
- Surfaces upstream errors as a clean `error` record instead of crashing.
- Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** the source is public but its format is not analyst friendly. This actor returns a flat, tool-ready dataset.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `active_ingredient`, `category`, `expiry_date`, `manufacturer`, `presentation`, `product_name`, `registration`, `results`, `scrapedAt`. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** the upstream source enforces its own rate limits. Heavy pulls should be spread across runs.

### 🚀 How to use

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Fill in the input fields (defaults work for a first run).
3. Click **Start**. Your dataset is ready in seconds.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

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|---|---|
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> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for 900+ production-grade scrapers across business intelligence, real estate, e-commerce, sports, finance, and public records.

**Disclaimer:** This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the third-party services referenced. Users are responsible for complying with the target site's terms of service and applicable law. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Product name or active ingredient to search the ANVISA medicines registry. Leave empty to list all (paginated).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

How many medicines to collect per run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "dipirona",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "dipirona",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/anvisa-brazil-medicines-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "dipirona",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/anvisa-brazil-medicines-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "dipirona",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/anvisa-brazil-medicines-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/anvisa-brazil-medicines-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/hL2FwhK20LSgBN5Dv/builds/9cqPHjkqLwOUWc9Do/openapi.json