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Scrape FDA drug adverse event reports (FAERS) and drug recall actions from the official openFDA API. Get safety report ID, patient reactions, drugs, seriousness, recall class, reason and recalling firm. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

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openFDA Drug Adverse Events & Recalls Scraper

Extract FDA drug adverse event reports (FAERS) and drug recalls from the official openFDA API, covering millions of US safety records

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

2 datasets
events and recalls

United States
coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel
output formats

Why teams choose this scraper: the most complete openFDA drug safety feed available. Every adverse event carries the full report plus premium enrichment most tools drop: per-reaction outcomes (resolved, fatal, ongoing), the reporter country and qualification, the sending organisation, expedited-criteria and transmission flags, and patient weight and death date. Each drug is enriched with its brand name, generic name, product type, route, authorisation number, batch number and start and end dates alongside NDC, RxCUI, UNII and pharmacologic class. Nothing is invented; fields the source omits come back null.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Drug safety and pharmacovigilance monitoring	Pharma safety and regulatory teams
Tracking recalls for a specific drug or firm	Compliance and quality teams
Building adverse event datasets for research	Academic and data science teams
Competitive and market safety intelligence	Market access and strategy analysts
Feeding safety signals into internal dashboards	Health data engineers

Frequently Asked Questions

What data does this scraper cover?
It covers two openFDA drug datasets for the United States: the FAERS adverse event reports (patient reactions, drugs and seriousness) and the drug enforcement database of recalls. You pick which one with the Dataset input.

How many records can I pull in one run?
openFDA paginates with a skip offset up to 25000 records per query, so a single search can return up to that many. For larger pulls, narrow the search keyword or the date range to split the work.

How does the search work?
Type a simple keyword and it is matched to the drug product name for events or the recall reason for recalls. You can also paste a raw openFDA expression that already names a field, such as patient.reaction.reactionmeddrapt:"Nausea" or reason_for_recall:contamination.

Can I filter by date?
Yes. Set Date From and Date To in YYYY-MM-DD format. For events this filters the FDA receive date, and for recalls the report date.

What happens to missing fields?
Fields that openFDA does not provide for a given record are returned as null. The scraper never invents values, so an empty field means the source did not report it.

Example use cases

Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:

openFDA Amoxicillin Drug Recalls Scraper: Scrape FDA enforcement recall records for amoxicillin. Pull recall reasons, classification, distribution, and status from the openFDA drug recalls database as J
openFDA Atorvastatin Lipitor Adverse Events Scraper: Scrape FDA FAERS adverse event reports for atorvastatin (Lipitor). Collect patient reactions, muscle and liver events, and outcomes from openFDA as JSON.
openFDA Ibuprofen Adverse Events Scraper: Scrape FDA FAERS adverse event reports for ibuprofen. Pull patient reactions, outcomes, and report dates from the openFDA drug events database as structured JSO
openFDA Lisinopril Adverse Events Scraper: Scrape FDA FAERS adverse event reports for lisinopril. Pull patient reactions, outcomes, and report metadata from the openFDA drug events database as JSON.
openFDA Metformin Adverse Events Scraper: Scrape FDA FAERS adverse event reports for metformin. Collect patient reactions, seriousness, and outcomes from the openFDA drug events database as clean JSON.
openFDA Semaglutide Ozempic Adverse Events Scraper: Scrape FDA FAERS adverse event reports for Ozempic (semaglutide). Extract patient reactions, GI events, outcomes, and report dates from openFDA as JSON.
openFDA Warfarin Adverse Events Scraper: Scrape FDA FAERS adverse event reports for warfarin. Extract patient reactions, bleeding events, outcomes, and report dates from the openFDA database as JSON.
Track Aspirin Adverse Event Reports: Track Aspirin Adverse Event Reports
Scrape FDA Drug Recalls: Scrape FDA Drug Recalls
Monitor Opioid Adverse Events: Monitor Opioid Adverse Events

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

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